This year marks the entry of the largest chip maker in one of the fastest growing technology segments of smartphones and tablets.

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Such success prompted the company, now the third-largest memory chip maker in South Korea and among the world's top 10, to plan its IPO in hopes of becoming a stock market darling too.

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"The problem is that gadgets have not been successful, " added the chairman of the world's largest chip maker.

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The tables have turned in the contest between Intel, the world's largest chip maker, and its scrappy rival, Advanced Micro Devices.

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