Apple Boosted Its Spend On Chips By More Than A Quarter In 2017 Says Gartner

Apple’s 2017 semiconductor spend increased by more than a quarter year-on-year, according to Gartner. It said that Apple spent $38.754B on chips in 2017, up 27.5% on the previous year.

It left Apple as the world’s second-largest chip buyer after Samsung …

Samsung boosted its own purchases by an even heftier 37.2% to more than $43B.

The top 10 chip buyers were rounded out by Dell, Lenovo, Huawei, BBK, HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, LG and Western Digital.

However, the company notes that the increased spending reflected higher component prices as well as increased production volumes.

Gartner said that the top ten buyers accounted for 40% of the total semiconductor market in 2017, and predicts that this percentage will climb to 45% by 2021.

Via Digitimes. iPhone X teardown photo: iFixit.