Samsung leads global DRAM memory chip market in Q2

Seoul: Samsung has maintained its dominant position in the global DRAM memory chip market with a 43.5 percent share in the second quarter, a new report has said.

Although Samsung’s market share was down 0.6 percentage point from three months earlier, its revenue increased 13.8 per cent to $7.4 billion in the June quarter, according to data from market research firm TrendForce.

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is a type of semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a memory cell consisting of a tiny capacitor and a transistor, both typically based on metal-oxide-semiconductor technology.