List of the world's 2016 largest semiconductor customers

       China imports more than the amount of crude oil, in recent years, semiconductor as a strategic industry, but who is the world's largest semiconductor buyers?

International research and consulting firm Gartner said that in 2016 Samsung Electronics (SamsungElectronics) and apple (Apple) is still the world's largest semiconductor buyers, accounting for 18.2% of the overall market demand. Followed by DELL, Lenovo, HUAWEI.
2016 Samsung and apple spent a total of $61 billion 700 million worth of semiconductor, an increase of $400 million compared to 2015. In 2015 the world's top 10 semiconductor buyers in 9 in 2016 still ranked in the top 10, which ranked tenth in 2015 CISCO (CiscoSystems) in 2016 because of the rapid growth of China intelligent mobile phone manufacturer BBK communications equipment, replaced by ranking.
The top 10 companies in 2016 included 4 American companies, 3 Chinese companies, 2 Korea Companies and 1 Japanese companies. This is the first time that the top 10 of the top 3 Chinese companies have proven that the importance of the electronic market is growing even as China's overall economic slowdown.
Gartner is chief analyst mountain Heng said that Samsung and apple has dominated the field semiconductor consumption for sixth consecutive years, although the two companies continued to exert considerable influence in technology and price trends in the semiconductor industry, the future growth is expected to decline, the effects have been weakened.
He said that the semiconductor chip supplier can no longer rely on a few large customers to ensure their business, especially in the recent market changes more quickly. For example, BBK communications equipment in 2016, the rapid growth of this very rapid growth also highlights the variability of Chinese business.
Nevertheless, the overall efficiency of the overall design of the top ten industry (totalavailablemarket, TAM) is still more than the average growth rate in the semiconductor market.
Source: Gartner