Samsung Electronics surpasses Micron Technology as world's largest automotive memory supplier

Samsung overtakes Micron in chips for cars

Samsung hit 40% of the global automotive memory market in 2025, overtaking Micron (36%), which had dominated the segment since the early 1990s. Long qualification cycles and platform lock-in make this a structurally durable gain — and a signal that Samsung is diversifying its memory business beyond AI HBM.