Tsmc Overtakes Samsung In Global Semiconductor Sales
According to the Korean media, Samsung’s over-reliance on memory chips has affected its semiconductor earnings this past quarter. The company’s operating profit from the semiconductor business between July to September this year was KRW 6 trillion. But more than 90 percent (over KRW 5.5 trillion) of that came from the memory segment. Application processors and other semiconductor units hardly made any money. Samsung has long been the world’s largest vendor of memory chips....