A year ago, around the same time, Samsung dominated the global DRAM market, with SK Hynix in second place. But the situation started to shift in the fourth quarter of 2024, as the gap between Samsung and SK Hynix began to narrow. By the first quarter of 2025, SK Hynix...
For years, Samsung has relied on its massive chip factories in China to keep the world supplied with memory. At its plants in Xi’an and Wuxi, Samsung makes NAND flash and DRAM chips that end up in several devices, including phones, AI servers, laptops, and game...
Samsung has lost its top spot in the global memory chip market for the first time. Now, the market leader is SK Hynix according to Q2 2025 revenue results. Thanks to its dominance in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips, it has finally succeeded in overtaking Samsung....
Samsung has long been a dominant force in the global semiconductor industry, especially in memory chips. But the company is now facing what many are calling a structural crisis — one rooted not in technology, but in internal culture. Despite the AI-driven boom in...
For the first time in recent memory, the global memory chip market doesn’t have a clear leader. Competition is heating up, and that also means some bad news for Samsung’s memory division. SK hynix has caught up with Samsung in the global memory market. SK hynix is now...
