According to market research firm 's latest report released IHSiSuppli24 , 2013 Samsung Electronics semiconductor sales increased 7.0 percent over last year , reaching 33.456 billion U.S. dollars , market share reached 10.5% , is expected to remain the world's second position. In 2012 , Samsung Electronics semiconductor sales $ 31.264 billion , $ 30 billion mark for the first time , the market share also increased to double digits. Compared with this, the United States ranked first Intel semiconductor sales will reach $ 46.96 billion , a decrease of 1.0 % compared with last year, the market share declined from 15.7% in 2012 to 14.8%. Thus, the market share gap between Samsung Electronics and Intel will shrink 5.4 percent last year to 4.3 percent this year .Analysts believe that Samsung Electronics to achieve such success is mainly because with the booming smartphone market , Samsung flash memory, mobile application processor (AP) and other main product sales have increased. The PC market still in the doldrums, with PC microprocessors Intel products primarily in the mobile chip market performance is still poor .In addition , SK Hynix Semiconductor sales are expected to reach $ 13.335 billion , compared with last year surged 48.7% market share increased to 4.2% , ranking jumped to fifth. The total global semiconductor market this year will reach $ 317.876 billion , an increase of 4.9% over last year.
