Samsung sprints past Intel to become world's semiconductor sales leader

Samsung has taken the sales lead as the world's largest semiconductor supplier in 2021's second quarter after a ten per cent jump allowed it to leapfrog Intel in the rankings, said semiconductor-centric analyst firm IC Insights. IC Insights' August Update to the 2021 McClean Report ranks Samsung as the company with the world's …

[Pascal Monett]

Good for Samsung

But Samsung doesn't make CPUs.

I'm looking at upgrading my desktop PC, and the choices are still AMD or Intel.

Intel has been very disappointing in the past few years. Seems that I'm going to go Epyc/Ryzen rather than Core, but I'm still not decided.

Oh, and it's for a gaming PC, so max performance is definitely a criteria.

[Dasreg]

Re: Good for Samsung

CPU is becoming an asic these days...

[Dasreg]

People are designing their own cpu's now...