Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday its market share for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products fell in the first half from a year earlier amid intensifying global competition. The South Korean tech giant took up 32.7 percent of the global DRAM market over the January-June period, down 8.8 percentage points from a year earlier, according to the company's report.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Samsung Electronics, on the other hand, accounted for 19.9 percent of the global smartphone market in the first half, up from 18.3 percent a year earlier. The company also held 28.9 percent of the TV market over the six-month period, slightly up from 28.3 percent last year.
The average sales price of TVs fell 4 percent in the first quarter compared with the annual average of 2024, while those of smartphones rose 1 percent, the report also showed. Samsung Electronics invested 18 trillion won (US$12.9 billion) in research and development projects in the first half, registering 5,005 patents in South Korea and 4,594 in the United States, it added.