South Korea's semiconductor market share for the first time exceeded Japan's second

According to Yonhap reported that South Korean Ministry of commerce industry, citing the latest data of market research firm IHS Technology said last year, South Korea semiconductor market share in the world for the first time in more than Japan, Yue Judi two.

According to statistics, last year, South Korea's semiconductor sales reached $51 billion 516 million in the global market share of 16.2%, more than Japan (13.7%) jumped to the world's second. This is the first time since 80s last year, South Korea semiconductor production began in 30 years in this field more than japan.

However, the Korean semiconductor industry is too much emphasis on the development and sales of memory chips. South Korea's memory chip sales reached $34 billion 297 million, accounting for 66.5% of the total semiconductor sales in the global market share of up to 52.4%, far more than the United States ranked in the United States (27.1%) (second).

By contrast, the market share of the next generation of semiconductor products is only 5.8%, ranking first in the top five semiconductor manufacturing countries. Belonging to the high value-added items of photonic devices and discrete devices market share reached 10.4%, and Japan (31.5%) gap.