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Samsung Electronics is keeping a firm grip on its status as the number two player in
the world's semiconductor market. Numbers released by industry tracker IHS iSuppli
show Samsung's chip sales rose more than 8 percent in 2013 compared to the previous year...
to over 33 billion U.S. dollars. Its global market share also rose last year...
by point-3 percentage points to 10-point-6. Analysts say the rise was driven by Samsung's
expansion in the smartphone market... where sales of its mobile DRAMs and NAND flash chips
saw an increase. The Korean tech giant has some ground to make
up to catch up with the number one player on the global market, Intel.
But the door may be cracked. The report says Intel's shipments fell nearly
1 percent in 2013 to 47 billion dollars... while its market share also dropped to below
15 percent.