South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. gained ground in the global chip and panel markets in the third quarter from a year earlier, but the company saw its handset and TV shares continue to remain dull, data showed Thursday.

Samsung took up 44.9 percent of the global dynamic random access memory chip market in the third quarter in terms of sales, rising from 39.6 percent posted in 2014, the data compiled by DRAMeXchange showed.

Samsung's display panels held 21.9 percent of the global market in the July-September period, a separate data compiled by DisplaySearch showed, up from 20.9 percent posted in 2014.

Despite the robust sales of chips and panels, Samsung's original mainstay business such as smartphones suffered.

Samsung grabbed 21.9 percent of the global handset market in the third quarter, down from 22.4 percent posted last year, according to the industry tracker Strategy Analytics.

The market behemoth's TV business held a market share of 21.2 percent in the July-September period, also down from 22.6 percent posted in 2014, a separate data report by DisplaySearch showed.

While Samsung has maintained its throne in the TV segment since 2006, the rise of Chinese players ate into its shares, industry watchers said. (Yonhap)