When Samsung told engineers in its flagship memory chip team that they were being moved to a division making processor chips, they often asked what they had done wrong, according to industry insiders.
Processors are the “brain” of any computer, making decisions and storing and retrieving data, and Samsung fabricates its own processors for all its devices, from smartphones to tablets to laptops.
But inside Samsung's huge chip division, which had sales of Won86tn ($73.3bn) last year, the processor unit has played second fiddle to the team making memory chips, the circuits that store data, which accounted for 84 per cent of those sales.
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