Move over, Intel: Samsung poised to become the world's largest chip maker
Samsung Electronics semiconductor fabrication line
Thus, while sales of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S line used to form the lion's share of its revenue and profits just two or three years ago, now it has managed to diversify enough so that more than half of its profits and revenue come from chips and other components. Not that the Galaxy S8's market performance isn't important for Samsung's bottom line, but the $18 billion expansion of its chip-making plants that was announced today undoubtedly shows where the company's future focus may lie.
Needless to say, the Galaxy phones can only benefit from these developments, as they will be able to get the latest and greatest processors and memory chips, while Intel might have to prep for the "decade of Samsung" in the meantime, for the first time since 1993 and the first Pentium processor.
source: Korea Times
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