Is Intel no longer the strongest semiconductor manufacturer?

The Korean stock exchange recently announced that Samsung Electronics has become the world’s largest listed semiconductor manufacturer. Thus, the first Intel Corporation so far was pushed into second place.

According to Korean data this morning, Intel's market value is around $ 112 billion, while Samsung Electronics closed at $ 120 billion on Friday. Samsung's result is likely to be GDDR4 is expected to be introduced soon also due.

However, only the direct semiconductor production of the given companies was included in these market values, so the production of entertainment equipment, hard disks and mobile phones in other industries, such as Samsung, is not included.

The image shows the market value of Intel from May 2005 to the end of April 2006. - The graph is owned by Yahoo Finances. Be careful, the scaling base is not zero, so it can be very deceptive!