According to reports from foreign media, market research firm ,IHSiSuppli electronics's business leader,  dale Ford said in the Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit, with the strong growth of the iPhone smartphone and iPad Tablet PC sales, Apple becomes the world's largest chip buyer, Samsung is in second place and growing fast.In 2009, Apple purchased chips about $ 9 billion ,this year it will grow to $ 27 billion, next year it will further increase to $ 29 billion. Ford expected next year, Samsung's chip purchases will increase to $ 18 billion from about $ 10 billion in 2009.Intel is still king of the chip industry, at the fourth quarter of last year it accounted for about 15% of the chip industry revenue; Samsung ranked second with the proportion of about 9%. This indicates that the Samsung is not only a large chip maker, but also a major chip customer.Ford pointed out that Intel can not rest on its laurels, the mobile revolution is sweeping the computing industry.Last year, the chip market size was $ 311 billion. Ford predicts chip market size will eventually exceed 400 billion U.S. dollars. The chip market is really nothing compared to the $ 143 trillion global economies of scale, but its impact could be much higher. Ford said there are many areas in the economy, but in all these areas, we have become the main engine of economic growth.