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Samsung has not only occupied the dominant position in global smartphone market shipments and market share for a long time, but also has a leading position in some core technologies.

The latest research data from Strategy Analytics, a market research organization, shows that in Q1 of 2021, the total revenue of the global smartphone memory chip market will reach 11.4 billion U.S. dollars.

Among them, Samsung Memory leads the smart phone memory chip market with 49% share (DRAM and NAND), SK Hynix (23%) and Micron (14%) rank second and third, and these three occupy the global smart phone memory chip market. A revenue share of more than 80%.

Strategy Analytics pointed out that the recovery of the smartphone terminal market has promoted early customer orders from memory chip suppliers who provide high-density memory chips for some key smartphone models. Samsung Memory, SK Hynix and Micron have all benefited from shipments of storage solutions based on large-capacity multi-chip packages (MCP). Driven by 128GB NAND and 6GB DRAM configurations, UFS multi-chip package (uMCP) share reached nearly 30%.

The Strategy Analytics research report shows that in Q1 of 2021, the market revenue of smartphone NAND flash memory chips will increase by 18% year-on-year, which is driven by the adoption of UFS NAND flash memory chips, especially in high-end devices. In the smartphone NAND market, Samsung Memory ranked first with 42% revenue share, SK Hynix followed closely with 20% share, and Kioxia ranked third with 19% share.

In the DRAM market, due to the increase in new 5G devices released by smartphone customers, the revenue of smartphone DRAM memory chips increased 21% year-on-year in the quarter. Samsung Memory leads the smartphone DRAM market with 54% revenue share, followed by SK Hynix (25%) and Micron (20%).