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Big spenders (from 39) but also Samsung’s growth in its target
electronic equipment markets, especially
smartphone market in 2021 (table, 39). the smartphone and solid-state drive
(SSD) markets. gartner.com
Apple remained at the top of the semicon-
ductor spending customer ranking in 2021.
Apple increased its spending on memory NVIDIA’s $60 billion Arm Semi
by 36.8% and on non-memory chips by deal quashed over FTC concerns
20.2% in 2021.
SAN DIEGO — NVIDIA says it has
Inhouse processors abandoned its attempt to buy Arm
It decreased its demand for computing Semiconductor, citing Federal Com-
microprocessing units (mPs), however, due munications Commission concerns.
to the shift to its own in-house-designed
application processors. The deal was first announced in Septem-
ber 2020, with NVIDIA offering to pay $40
Samsung Electronics increased its memory billion. Based on stock’s value just prior to
spending by 34.1% and nonmemory chip the recent announcement, the deal would
spending by 23.9% in 2021.
have been worth $60 billion. Based in
Great Britain, Arm is owned by SoftBank,
The increase of memory spending was the a Japanese investment company.
result of not just a rise of memory price,
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