Samsung system IC investment will look at 7.3 billion US dollars

From the PC to the mobile computing development operating system and major parts supply supplier change compared to the PC industry only in the memory of high influence, Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics) in the field of mobile computing has been in smart phones and other end products, applications Processors (Application Processors; APs) and memory occupy a place, among which the global mobile AP market is currently dominated by Samsung, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments (TI).

SAMSUNG Mobile's AP business is mainly for its own use and OEM for Apple's wafers. The global mobile AP includes three major manufacturers, including Samsung, and other companies such as NVIDIA, Renesas Electronics, and Marvell. , also gradually produce or layout similar functions of the chip. The Apple A series, Samsung Exynos, TI OMAP, and NVIDIA Tegra all use the ARM core.

In 2011, Samsung AP related revenue accounted for about 50% of the Large Scale IC business unit. It is expected that the global AP market will grow from US$11.6 billion in 2011 to US$27.6 billion in 2016. The growth rate will be significantly higher than that of Samsung AP. The overall system on a chip (SoC) market.

In this context, Samsung’s semiconductor business, which is dominated by memory and system LSIs, showed a higher memory capital expenditure than system LSI until 2011, but Samsung’s 2012 system LSI capital expenditure target will reach 8.2 trillion won. (About 7.3 billion U.S. dollars), it will surpass 6.8 trillion won for the first time in memory, revealing that Samsung is stepping up efforts to deploy APs and other related businesses.