Earlier this week, we had covered MediaTek’s announcement, in which it claimed that it had become the No 1 chip manufacturer for Android smartphones in the US. However, Qualcomm is challenging this claim, considering a separate report suggests otherwise.
In recent months, the Taiwanese chipmaker has seen great success across the globe with its chips that target every smartphone segment. Previously, the company was largely popular in the budget category, but it has been eating away at Qualcomm’s mid range segment dominance in recent times. Following a report from known analytics based firm IDC, MediaTek claimed that it became the market leader in the US (Via PCMag).
However, the American chip giant contradicted its claim of being the top chipmaker by providing data from another known analysis firm, Counterpoint Research. It isn’t surprising that both firms arrived at different results considering they use different proprietary data methods of collecting data. Although, both firms agreed that Qualcomm is the top chipmaker for Android phones for the year of 2021, since MediaTek only took the lead in the fourth quarter report from IDC.
According to a MediaTek spokeswoman, “MediaTek trusts IDC and the accuracy of information from its recent report.” The original IDC data showed that the Taiwanese chipmaker saw a stellar performance in Q4 2021 in the US since the top three selling phones in the period featured MediaTek chipsets. This included the Samsung Galaxy A12, Galaxy A32, and the Motorola G Pure. Google shifting to its own proprietary chipset also meant orders lost for Qualcomm.
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