Now the world's largest semiconductor buyer is Apple

Apple may be the easily outstripping other hardware makers in semiconductor investing, a brand new report from IHS iSuppli finds.

Based on the research firm, Apple spent $17.5 billion on semiconductors this year, representing an astonishing 79.6 percent increase within the $9.7 billion it put in 2009. That year, Apple was rated third among semiconductor purchasers behind Hewlett-Packard (Hewlett packard) and Samsung.

And knowning that leap in investing, IHS iSuppli stated, Apple now finds itself--"the very first time ever"--the biggest buyer of semiconductors among original equipment producers (OEMs) worldwide.

This time around around, Hewlett packard finds itself within the second place with $15.2 billion allocated to semiconductors this past year. Samsung, Dell, and Nokia rounded the top 5 by investing $13.9 billion, $11 billion, and $8.3 billion, correspondingly.

Apple's meteoric increase in investing arrives mainly towards the company's apple iphone and iPad, IHS iSuppli stated. This Year, Apple devoted 61 percent of their semiconductor investing to its mobile products, as the remaining costs visited its computer systems. Hewlett packard, however, spent 82 % of their cash desktop computers, notebook computers, and servers.

Odds are, Apple's investing mix will not change in the near future. In the Worldwide Designers Conference now, the organization introduced that sales of iOS-based products still soar. And to date, Apple has offered 200 million iOS-based items all over the world.

As that figure develops, IHS iSuppli needs more large things from Apple within the semiconductor market. The study firm stated today it needs Apple's semiconductor investing to improve again this year to $22.4 billion. HP's, however, is anticipated to fall to $14.8 billion. Samsung, the study firm stated, will expend $14.3 billion on semiconductors this season.