Samsung has reclaimed its spot as the world’s largest chip manufacturing giant by revenue and market share, according to a new report from Gartner. Last year, it lost the crown to Intel, but now Intel has slipped back to second place. Despite some struggles in the chip market last year, Samsung has really pulled it off.
Samsung tops among the world’s biggest chip manufacturing giants
Samsung took the top spot in the chip manufacturing market with a 10.6% share in 2024. Its revenue hit a staggering $66.5 billion, with shipments jumping by 62.5% year-over-year. The rest of the top five spots are held by Intel (2nd), NVIDIA (3rd), SK Hynix (4th), and Qualcomm (5th).
Following them are Microsoft Technology (6th), Broadcom (7th), AMD (8th), Apple (9th), and Infineon (10th). According to the report, SK Hynix and NVIDIA made impressive gains, with year-over-year shipment growth of 86% and 83%, respectively. This helped them move up from 5th to 3rd, and 6th to 4th.
Credits: Gartner
Samsung has been a key player in the semiconductor market, supplying a range of chips including DRAM, HBM, NAND, CPUs, and GPUs. However, it faced some setbacks after losing major clients like NVIDIA due to overheating issues with its HBM memory chips. But with those problems now resolved, Samsung has earned NVIDIA’s certification again. Expect its chip division to do even better in 2025.
Samsung also faced challenges with phone processors, which reportedly set back its 3nm plans, with yield rates as low as 20%. As a result, the Galaxy S25 series is using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipsets worldwide. But things are looking up. A recent report from Korea suggests Samsung is ramping up production of 2nm chipsets with improved yield rates. The 2nm Exynos 2600 could power the Galaxy S26 series, which is launching early next year, in select markets if not globally.
