Samsung Electronics and Apple - the top two purchasers of chips - increased their share of semiconductor spending in 2017 to 19.5 percent and consumed $81.8 billion of semiconductors in 2017, according to a chip purchasing ranking produced by Gartner.
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The pair increased their purchasing by more $20 billion compared with 2016 when they also led spending with 18 percent of the market.
BBK Electronics, the second largest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world, swapped places with Hewlett Packard in the ranking to take sixth place just behind Huawei. BBK is the Chinese company behind the Oppo, OnePlus and Vivo brands.
Significant price increases for DRAM and NAND flash memory in 2017 had a big impact on semiconductor buyers' ranking through 2017. Supply shortages occurred not just in the memory IC market, but also in other semiconductor chip markets, such as microcontrollers and discrete, as well as in the passive component market, which benefited the suppliers but troubled the OEMs, Gartner said.
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