SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS TO RETAIN GLOBAL CHIP MARKET LEADERSHIP.

AsiaPulse News, December, 2003

SEOUL, Dec. 8 Asia Pulse - The Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:005930), the world's largest chipmaker, will retain its leading position in global memory chip sales in 2003 with a 28.1 per cent share of the market, according to a U.S.-based market research group.

However, the South Korean company is likely to experience a 2.3 per cent drop in its memory chip revenues for all of 2003, as it turns a portion of its production to high-end flash memory, said the research agency iSuppli in a report.

In line with Samsung Electronics' move to reduce its dependence on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, the Korean company is projected to report US$4.87 billion in full-year chip revenues, compared with $4.97 billion last year, the report said.

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