While Intel was able to overtake Samsung in 2019, the Korean giant made a comeback in 2021 to claim the crown once again. Samsung’s advanced DRAM and flash storage technologies coupled with the high demand for these products made that possible.
It was back in 2017 when Samsung broke Intel’s 24-year-old record to become the world’s largest chipmaker in terms of sales. Memory chip demand slump has sit Samsung’s earnings Even as the latter pushes for improved performance and yields on its advanced nodes, TSMC continues to beat Samsung.Īs the Korean conglomerate faces the possibility of a significant earnings slump this past quarter, it may end up losing its status as the world’s largest chipmaker by sales to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Another weak performer was the "Professional Visualization" division that caters to professional Quadro GPUs and VR where sales climbed from 181 million to just 189 million USD.Taiwan-based TSMC has proven to be a tough competitor for Samsung’s chip business. OEM sales, however, have declined in revenue by 20.6 percent from 218 million to 173 million YoY. Nvidia's Data Center division that deals with Tesla and DGX-1 platforms experienced the largest growth from 88 million USD to 143 million USD YoY. Nvidia Tegra sales are up from 145 million USD to 160 million USD. GPU sales are up 1.079 billion USD compared to 940 million USD the same period last year. According to Nvidia CEP Jen-Hsun Huang, all of Nvidia's divisions are still experiencing solid growth. Net profit is also down 5.31 percent from 207 million USD. Net profit is also up substantially from 134 million to 196 million representing an increase of 46.3 percent.Ĭompared to the previous fiscal quarter ending Q4 2016, revenue is down just 6.85 percent from 1.401 billion USD. Revenue as of this past quarter sits at 1.305 billion USD compared to 1.151 billion USD the same period last year representing an increase of 13.4 percent.
There's no stopping the GPU giant as Nvidia's latest financial report for its Q1 2017 fiscal year ending reveals excellent numbers overall.
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