In the chip industry, Samsung and Intel have always been the world's largest IDM giants (integrating design, manufacturing and sealing and testing, basically without relying on others). For a long time, the Iron Throne of global chips was fought back and forth between the two until TSMC rose and the bipolar pattern was completely broken.
The world's three largest chip manufacturers are TSMC, Samsung and Intel. The production of high-end chips in China has always been in a bottleneck state. At present, our energy production process has reached 14nm, but compared with TSMC 5nm production process, our gap is still large, and the yield of production is also very low, generally only about 25%, which is undoubtedly a huge waste for the whole chip design.
1. Intel
Intel is a manufacturer of personal computer parts and CPU founded in 1968. It has a 50 year history of market leadership. It launched the first microprocessor in 1971, which brought the revolution of computer and Internet to the world.
2. Samsung
Samsung is a world-famous multinational enterprise group. As its largest subsidiary, Samsung Electronics is mainly involved in IT solutions, household appliances, wireless, network, semiconductor and LCD. It developed 64K dynamic random access memory in 1983 and became the world semiconductor leader at that time. After that, it has been in a leading position in the field of mobile devices and the enterprise with the largest market share of smart phones.
3. TSMC
Taiwan integrated circuit manufacturing Co., Ltd., Chinese abbreviation: TSMC, English abbreviation: TSMC, is a semiconductor manufacturing company. Founded in 1987, it is the first professional integrated circuit manufacturing service (Foundry) enterprise in the world. Its headquarters and main factories are located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, China Province, China.