Intel regained its leading position in the semiconductor market thanks to Samsung's losses for 2019. Intel has chased Samsung for the past 2 years, but after a drop in DRAM demand, Intel has taken the leading position. The global semiconductor market has seen a decline in revenue 12% in 2019, which affected other companies more strongly than Intel.
Andrew Norwood, vice president of research presso Gartner (multinational strategic consulting firm), said: “The oversupply in the DRAM market helped push the global memory market down 32,7% 2019. The memory market accounted for 26,1%. % of semiconductor sales in 2019 and was the worst performing device segment. " Samsung being a large DRAM provider it was hit hard compared to Intel, a company with limited memory production. Research firm Gartner also cut its global semiconductor market outlook this year to a drop of 0,9% from the growth of 12,5% estimated at the end of 2019 due to the effects of COVID-19.
