With revenue of $3.8 billion in the second quarter, Samsung’s DRAM revenue expanded by 24.3 percent from $3.1 billion in the first quarter, the highest growth rate among the top five suppliers, according to a report from semiconducter market research firm iSuppli. The rise gave Samsung a 35.4 percent share of global DRAM revenue in the second quarter, up from 32.6 percent in the first quarter.
The firm credited Samsung’s aggressive investment in advanced manufacturing technology, which allowed the company to outproduce competitors and expand its lead in the global DRAM technology market. The strategy has “paid off in spades”, the firm noted in a report. Samsung in the second quarter produced 1.2 billion 1Gbit-density-equivalent DRAM units, up 13 percent from 1.1 billion in the first. The company’s DRAM ASP was $3.13 in the second quarter, compared to the industry’s DRAM price average of $3.03.
