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>On the phone front, they were used to selling phones at premium pricing only relying on their brand name. Welcome to the groovy train, you are about 5 years l
by tooltalk 8y ago
>On the phone front, they were used to selling phones at premium pricing only relying on their brand name.
Welcome to the groovy train, you are about 5 years late to the party.
>On the chip front, TSMC has been outpacing them for years, and is getting all the contracts.
Actually TSMC more or less created the whole outsourcing fab business in the late 80's and has led the outsourcing business for the past 30 years. The fact that Samsung went from nothing in mid 2000's to #2 today is quite remarkable, even surpassing TSMC in 14nm and the first EUV rollout.
> The only thing I can think of that Samsung does better than anyone else is OLED, and others are catching up very quickly.
Samsung has been known for their displays for decades. On mobile OLED, Samsung had pretty much 95% market share for the past decade or so and I keep hearing about competitors in China and Taiwan that are in fact still 3-4 generation behind and busy sending spies to copy and steal SDS's IP, so I doubt it.