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South Korea Losing Competitiveness in Semiconductor Industry
www.businesskorea.co.kr, May. 11, 2021 –
South Korea's semiconductor industry is losing its competitiveness. TSMC is increasingly outperforming Samsung Electronics in the foundry sector and Samsung Electronics' dominance is dwindling in the memory chip sector. Besides, most South Korean fabless firms are in the red.
The Device Solutions (DS) Division of Samsung Electronics posted 17.31 trillion won in non-memory chip sales last year, when TSMC's sales amounted to over 50 trillion won. In 2019, the division's sales were equivalent to 37.8 percent of TSMC's. The figure fell to 33.8 percent last year.
The division's operating profit was 3.37 trillion won in the first quarter of this year, down 16 percent from a year ago. This is because the division's foundry business profitability declined. On the other hand, the operating profit of TSMC, the largest foundry in the world, amounted to US$5.36 billion in the first quarter of this year.
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