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MediaTek achieves record 43% share for smartphone AP/SoC shipments

Sean — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:28:18 +0000

MediaTek has seen a sizeable growth in the smartphone chip market in recent months. Now, a new report has revealed that the company has managed to capture a record 43 percent market share for its AP (application processor)/ SoC (System on Chip) shipments for smartphones.

As per a Counterpoint Research report, the Taiwanese chipmaker’s SoC and AP shipments grew by a robust 31 percent year on year in the second quarter of this year. The growth arrives due to the explosive growth of shipments for 5G enabled smartphones over the same period last year. Thus, the company held a dominating 43 percent market share for SoCs in Q2 2021, with its LTE chips also seeing high shipments.

Meanwhile, Qualcomm was affected by the component supply issues and lower yields. However, it still managed to dominate the 5G baseband modem shipments with a 55 percent market share. Furthermore, the brand has also realigned its component sourcing strategy that should help boost its supply and overall earnings. Samsung, on the other hand, only managed to seize 10 percent of the 5G baseband shipment market share and also slipped into the fifth position with a 7 percent share for total SoC shipments falling behind Apple and UNISOC that held 14 and 9 percent market shares respectively.

Research Director Dale Gai stated that “MediaTek dominated the smartphone SoC market with its highest ever share of 43%, driven by a competitive 5G portfolio in the low mid segment and without major supply constraints. Relative to Qualcomm, MediaTek benefited from less supply constraints in the first half of 2021, including with RFICs (radio frequency integrated circuits), power management ICs (PMIC), and stable production yields from TSMC. 4G SoC shipments further helped MediaTek to strengthen its leading position.”

MediaTek retains its top spot in Global App Processor market in Q2 2021

Sean — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 09:17:56 +0000

A new report has revealed the global application processor market for smartphones in the second quarter of this year. This report reveals that MediaTek has managed to retain its top spot with a sizeable 38 percent market share.

According to a CounterPoint Research report, the Taiwanese chipmaking giant continued to lead the global AP market in this quarter, with its Dimensity 700 series dominating the 5G market. On the other hand, the Helio P35 and Helio G80 were quite popular in the 4G LTE segment. This report also marks the sizeable growth of MediaTek in recent times as the company’s latest Dimensity chipsets have become increasingly more popular across both mid range and entry level smartphones.

Meanwhile, its rival Qualcomm arrived second with a market share of 32 percent. The company saw a notable market share due to its processor’s popularity in the high end 5G market. Furthermore, Apple managed to capture the third spot with 15 percent market share thanks to the strong demand for its iPhone 12 and continued sales momentum. Samsung and UNISOC took the fourth and fifth spot with a 7 percent and 5 percent respectively. The latter saw a strong first half performance as it gained design wins with Honor and Realme in the 4G LTE smartphone market.

UNISOC Smartphone Application Processor shipments more than doubled in H1 2021: Report

Sean — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:28:49 +0000

The shipments for smartphone application processor shipments from UNISOC has more than doubled in the first half of this year. A new report has revealed that shipments were up by 122 percent over the same period back in 2020.

According to a Counterpoint Research report, Chinese chip designed saw a significant year on year rise in shipments for smartphone APs in H1 2021. This has the company rank fourth in the market with a total share of 8.4 percent and ranked third in the open market. Furthermore, the firm has also been a key partner for operators and local brands in growing markets like LATAM (Latin America) and MEA (Middle East and Africa).

Research Analyst Parv Sharma stated that “UNISOC’s smartphone AP chipset shipments more than doubled in the first half of 2021 compared to the first half of 2020. This year, the company has succeeded in expanding its customer base, securing a series of design wins with major OEMs like HONOR, realme and Motorola. In its home market, the UNISOC T610 and T740 have been successfully adopted by ZTE, Hisense and HONOR. This improved acceptance of UNISOC-powered smartphones by Chinese consumers is a positive signal for its growth in the second half of 2021.”

Apple leads Tablet Apps Processors market in Q1 2021, with 59% revenue share

Sean — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:59:58 +0000

In the first quarter of this year, the tablet apps processor market grew by 33 percent, reaching 761 million US Dollars; and Apple dominated this segment with a massive 59 percent revenue share in the market.

According to a StrategyAnalytics report, Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Samsung LSI held that the top five spots for the tablet applications processor (AP) market in terms of revenue share in Q1 2021. The Cupertino based giant lead this segment with a dominating 59 percent revenue share. On the other hand, Intel only had a 14 percent revenue share while Qualcomm accounted for just 10 percent.

Sravan Kundojjala, Associate Director of Handset Component Technologies at Strategy Analystics added that the Cupertino based giant “increased its tablet AP revenue share to 59 percent in Q1 2021 – the company’s highest share in the past nine years. Its tablet AP revenue grew 60 percent year on year in Q1 2021, driven by new 5nm based A14 Bionic and the M1 chip. The pandemic driven demand also helped.”

He also stated that “MediaTek maintained its lead in non iPad tablets in unit terms, thanks to its design wins at Amazon, Lenovo, Samsung, Asus and others. Strategy Analytics estimates that MediaTek’s tablet AP shipments grew 92 percent year on year in Q1 2021, driven by its cellular and non cellular tablet APs. However, we believe that the chip maker lags in terms of average selling prices (ASP). As a result, the company posted lower revenue share compared to its unit share.”

Global Application Processor Market declined 26% in Q2 2020

Sudarshan Ravichandran — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:30:15 +0000

Smartphones are nothing without the chipsets powering them. This type of silicons are known as application processors (AP). According to the latest report by Counterpoint Research, the Global Application Processor Market declined 26% in Q2 2020.

As expected, Qualcomm led the market with a 29% share, closely followed by MediaTek with a 26% share. Whereas, Huawei’s HiSilicon came at third position with a 16% share while Apple and Samsung tied in fourth place with 13% share each. Lastly, Unisoc obtained the fifth position with a 4% share.

Out of the above-mentioned top players, Qualcomm, Samsung and Unisoc witnessed a decline in their market share compared to the previous year. On the other hand, MediaTek, Huawei, and Apple showed improvements.

Neil Shah, VP of Research at Counterpoint says that Qualcomm’s decline was partly because of the increased usage of HiSilicon chips by Huawei, in addition to the overall drop of the global smartphone market as a result of the pandemic. Although HiSilicon’s market share improved a lot compared to others in the second quarter, its future is uncertain as Huawei can no longer manufacture them.

The executive also added that 5G smartphone sales more than doubled in Q2 2020 than the previous quarter. Hence, this trend will try to offset the overall decline in H1 2020 and will play an important factor for growth in 2021.

Strict US restrictions on Huawei and 5G will help Qualcomm, MediaTek and Unisoc to gain more market share. Research Analyst Shobhit Srivastava mentioned that OPPO, realme, vivo and Xiaomi will use chipsets from the former two companies to fill the void that Huawei may leave behind.

Qualcomm could be more beneficial in the $400+ (wholesale) price segment, especially in China where Huawei currently dominates with over 40% market share. The American chipmaker could also gain share in the mid to high-end segment in Europe.

On the other hand, MediaTek will become popular with the help of its affordable 4G and 5G offerings in markets like China. Russia, and Middle East & Africa (MEA) as realme and Xiaomi will try to eat up Huawei’s share in these regions.

Last but not least, 5G will also increase the number of affordable gaming smartphones with features like high refresh rate displays powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon G and MediaTek helio G series of chips.

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