The smartphone industry is getting ready for a revival from the pandemic ever so slightly. And this is evident in the latest TrendForce Q3 2020 report. Accordingly, Chinese companies like Xiaomi, OPPO have raised the stakes in Q3 2020 Smartphone production by a huge QoQ margin. And the report predicts that the trend will continue into 2021.

TrendForce has released the report on Global Smartphone production for Q3 2020 along with predictions for Q4 2020, and beyond. As per the report, global smartphone production reaches a total of 336 million in Q3. This is a 20% QoQ(Quarter over Quarter) from Q2 and the highest QoQ increase in recent years. Plus, the rise is reportedly due to easing pandemic, holiday season, high targets of companies.

As you can see below, Chinese companies like Xiaomi, OPPO are next to Samsung(23.2%) with 13.2, and 13.4% market shares respectively. However, despite the lower shares, production of Xiaomi, OPPO has grown 51%, and 64% respectively QoQ in Q3 2020. To compare, Samsung only grew about 42%. Further, both Xiaomi and OPPO will reportedly ramp up production in Q4 and reach about 47 and 46 million production units respectively.

Apple gets a meager rise of 2% QoQ for production in Q3. Thus, it sits behind the Chinese giants at 4th place with 42 million units. However, with iPhone 12 series launch it will substantially improve in Q4 2020. Despite showing a 19% decline QoQ, Huawei manages to make 42 million units in 2020. With this, it has not only managed to equate Apple in production but retain the market position in certain regions.

Regarding inventories, Huawei has already stockpiled enough chipsets by bulking the orders before the September deadline of the US came up. To recall, the USA had altered regulations and made getting a license for supplying Huawei mandatory. As a result, report says the company might enter the scarcity stage in Q1/Q2 2021 if licensing becomes an issue. In the table, Vivo manages to get only the last place with just 30 million unit production in 2020 despite a 13% QoQ rise.

Going into Q4 2020, the report predicts a production range of 351 million units with a 4% QoQ rise. Despite a YoY decline, the production will continue to revive gradually from the pandemic. But it is subject to responses from the semiconductor industry and geopolitical scenarios. To sum up, Global smartphone production will sit somewhere around 1.25 billion units for 2020. However, it could increase to 1.36 billion units in 2021 with 5G continuing to be the center of attraction.

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Huawei must have a mixture of emotions now. The company is facing the heat as a result of US sanctions on one side but manages to survive in certain markets on the other. One such market is Russia where the company has maintained the top spot in online smartphone shipment share consecutively in Q3 2020.

Counterpoint Research has released a report on the Smartphone market in Russia for Q3 2020. Although things are looking bad for Huawei overall, it maintains the lead in the Online Smartphone shipment market list with a share of 27.8%. This is a 2.2% YoY increase from 2019 but a 7.2% decline QoQ. Among this, the ex-sister brand‘s Honor 30 series helps it bag most of the online share in 5G models.

Overall smartphone sales get an increase of 5% YoY(Year on Year) in Russia whereas the online smartphone sales hit 34% in Q3 2020. This is a 2% QoQ(Quarter over Quarter) increase from Q2. Report says that strict public distancing norms along with promotional offers like gifts, cashback drove online sales.

Precisely, Honor offered cash coupons to boost its sales whereas companies like Xiaomi managed to crack Samsung with aggressive models. In fact, it has five of the top-10 online smartphone models with Redmi Note 8 Pro, 8A, Note 9 being its top three devices. Chinese company realme managed to enter the top-5 for the first time with a 1.7% YoY increase in share.

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Although Samsung leads overall revenue in offline and online segments, it lost the online share to Huawei. In fact, its Galaxy A51, A31 are among the top-selling devices online and offline but its online shipment market share for Q3 is 26.3% making it trail behind Xiaomi and Huawei. The report says that Samsung’s decision to focus more on offline is the reason for this.

Anyway, the list also has Apple sitting at 4th place with an 8.3% online market share. As for the online platforms, M.Video-Eldorado, Russia’s biggest consumer electronic chain, leads the online platform in Russia with a share of 32.5%.

Research Associate Soumen Mandal says that Chinese brands are strengthening their position in lower and mid-price segments. This is evident in Q3 2020 report as the report says that the average price of smartphones dropped 5% YoY in Russia and sits at $224 in Q3 2020.

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Display revenues have hit a new high due to LCD panels according to the latest DSCC report. China’s BOE trails behind Samsung Display in the second spot in overall sales for Q3 2020. Similarly, CPT China reported a Net Profit despite an operating loss for the said quarter.

According to the report(via TheElec), the industry revenues for Display sit at $30.5 billion for Q3 2020. This is reportedly a 21% QoQ, and 11% YoY increase. Apparently, this is an all-time high since Q4 2017, and DSCC believes that an increase in LCD TV panel prices is the reason. In terms of revenue share, Samsung leads the pack yet again but Chinese companies like BOE and CSOT managed to grab a place in the top 10. This development comes at a time when China’s display panel sales are expected to reach $42.5 million in 2020.

In fact, BOE outperforms LG display in the overall revenue share to take the second spot. These two are the only non-Samsung companies to have double-digit shares. That said, the list has others like AUO, Innolux, CSOT, and Sharp who’s share percentages are between 5-8%. Besides, the Gross profits of display panels, as per the report, has grown 106% QoQ(Quarter over Quarter) from Q2.

Precisely, the Gross profits(profit-making & selling costs) of Q3 2020 are at $2.7 billion which is a 182% YoY(Year on Year) growth compared to 2019. Accordingly, every panel maker except CPT China reports positive gross margins in Q3. However, as mentioned earlier, CPT China reported a net profit albeit having operating loss.

That is, it gained close to $211 million by selling long term assets. This meant that the entire industry(except Samsung, CSOT, Sharp) posted a net profit of $545 million in Q3 2020. As per the report, this is a first after losses for seven consecutive quarters in the industry. Also in terms of area shipments, BOE is very close to LG with a shipment of 8.1 million square meters followed by Innolux, and CSOT.

In any case, China is trying hard to overpower the South Korean counterpart at least in the LCD segment. The recent acquisition of fabs by BOE, and CSOT from CEC-Panda and Samsung respectively in China means it will likely have 28% of the World’s Large-sized panel capacity. As a result, it will probably hold 70% of Global LCD panels production capacity soon.

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The latest market research data for the third quarter of 2020 (Q3) has been released by Europe. Of particular interest is the performance in Western Europe where the COVID-19 induced lockdown shut some of the most-virile economies. While the smartphone industry took a hit, this latest data suggests that some brands are already back on their feet.

Samsung retains its number one spot despite seeing its shipment drop from 11million units in Q3 2019 to 10.3 million in Q3 2020. This gives Samsung a cool 3.6% share of the market. Apple came in at second with 8.2 million shipments which represents a 28.5% share of the market.

While Xiaomi is in third space, it is surprising to note Huawwei’sslip to 4th spot with just 2.5 million shipments the entire quarter. This is a crazy 58.7% drop in the Chinese market leader’s YoY performance. Also, it is a clear indication of how US sanctions have hit the company. Huawei’s loss is Xiaomi’s gain, though, as the company shipped 3.7 million smartphones in Q3 2020. This represents a 151% YoY growth considering that the brand shipped just 1.5 million smartphones and controlled a 4.8% market share a year ago.

OPPO is yet another winner from Huawei’s woes as its shipment grew from 0.1 million in Q3 2019 to 0.9 million this year’s Q3. This represents a 566.2% Year-on-Year growth.

On the whole, a total of 28.8 million smartphones were shipped across Western Europe in the third quarter. The current quarter may also take a hit as a result of the second wave of lockdowns in Western European markets like the UK, Spain, and France. (source)

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AnTuTu recently released the best iOS devices for October. Now it has released a report on Global User Preferences of Android Smartphone users for Q3 2020. The report includes preferences like display, processor, and android versions they use.

As per the report, AnTuTu says the results of Q3 2020 are based on the backstage data of the company’s ANTUTU V-8 Android App. Further, it puts out a disclaimer that the report reflects the preferences of its AnTuTu users. And it doesn’t have any relation to the performance and preference of the overall Android Phone market.

Display(6-inch+, 1080P)

Beginning with display, it says the old-school 5.5-inch displays on Smartphones are almost outworn now. That’s obvious considering manufacturers are increasingly moving towards 6-inch+ displays except few like Apple. Out of the entire chart, nearly 17.2% of devices have 6.4-inch displays. This is followed by 6.3-inch, 6.5-inch which accounts for 14.7%, and 13.6% respectively.

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Not to mention the 6.0-inch size that has a bite of its own but AnTuTu believes that the sizes are reaching a threshold here. Furthermore, the 1080P resolution of the display remains the most popular irrespective of size. Precisely, 19.5:9 and 20:9 aspect ratios that result in resolutions like 1080×2340, and 1080×2400 are the toppers. The former accounts for 35.7% of the entire data while the latter sits at 12.9%.

Processor(Qualcomm, Octa-core)

In terms of processors, Qualcomm leads the pack with a whopping 57.5%, while Samsung, HiSilicon, MediaTek trail behind at 14.9, 14.1, and 12.4% respectively. And Octa-core CPUs dominate the segment with a staggering 95.1% of the market data across segments. Besides, MediaTek’s performance has reportedly increased from Q2 due to the Dimensity SoCs. On the contrary, Huawei’s HiSilicon has taken a hit. And the report says the recent US ban will further dent the percentage but we will have to wait and see what happens.

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RAM, and Storage(6GB RAM, 128GB storage priorities)

For RAM, and Storage, AnTuTu says the majority of the data donors who use its app have either 4GB/6GB RAM. Accordingly, the 6GB occupies 34.3% while 4GB RAM is on 27.4% of the total. However, in China, 8GB is the king of the market where 4GB is rarely seen. The report predicts that with LPDDR5 becoming mainstream, the threshold might reach 8GB soon and 6GB will be the bare minimum.

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Similarly, charts show that 128GB storage dominates the market with 41.3% whereas 64GB, and 32GB account for 33.2, and 11.8% respectively. If the report is true, the threshold of minimum storage will rise to higher options in the future.

Android version(10 dominates)

Moving on to the important part is the Android Version. The AnTuTu report says that Android 10 devices account for 63.3% of the market. However, lower versions like 9, 8.0, are still out there at 27.7%, and 4.8% respectively. Android 11, despite being out for more than a month now hasn’t hit that many devices. Hence, it is under “others” accounting for 1.8%. That said, Google needs to find a way to bring all the users under one roof for a hassle-free experience.

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In the third quarter of this year, the global smartphone market witnessed a decline of 4 percent year-on-year but grew 32 percent quarter-on-quarter with total shipments reaching 366 million units, reveals the latest research report from Counterpoint.

As per the report, recovering in the global smartphone market is mainly because of increased demands in key markets such as the United States, India, and Latin America. Also, several regions are slowing opening up after COVID-19 precaution measures taken by various countries, which also included total lockdown.

Samsung has kept its position as the leader of the smartphone market globally, enjoying a healthy market share of 22 percent as the company witnessed 2 percent YoY growth and 47 percent QoQ growth. It also managed to dethrone Xiaomi in the Indian market to become the leading smartphone brand.

China-based Huawei, which is facing several issues because of restrictions imposed by the United States, managed to become the second leading smartphone brand with a 14 percent market share in Q3 2020. However, the Chinese giant witnessed a significant 24 percent year-on-year decline and 7 percent QoQ decline in terms of shipments.

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One interesting outcome is Xioami surpassing Apple for the third position with a 13 percent market share. It witnessed 46 percent and 75 percent YoY and QoQ growth respectively. Apple, on the other hand, held an 11 percent market share with a 7 percent YoY decline.

OPPO and Vivo took fourth and fifth positions with both the companies having 8 percent of the market share. OPPO-backed Realme emerged as the seventh leading smartphone brand globally with a four percent market share. But the company posted impressive growth — 45 percent YoY and 132 percent QoQ.

The report shows impressive growth from two brands — Xioami and Realme. This is mainly because of the increasing demand in key markets like China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian countries.

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South Korean giant Samsung was dominating the Indian smartphone market for years, until the Chinese company Xiaomi managed to overtook in late 2017. Since then, Xiaomi has been a leading smartphone brand in India in almost every quarter.

However, that has now changed. Samsung has managed to dethrone Xiaomi in the third quarter of 2020, i.e. in Q3 2020, clinching the lead position in the Indian smartphone market, as per the Counterpoint report.

The report reveals that Samsung managed to grab 24 percent of the smartphone market share while Xiaomi grabbed 23 percent of the market in India. The South Korean giant witnessed 32 percent YoY growth and managed to surpass the pre-COVID level in terms of smartphone shipments.

The company has been trying to get back to the pole position and as a part of that plan, it also refreshed its entry-level and mid-range offerings in the market. It updated the Galaxy A-series and launch Galaxy M-series phones in India. The company has covered almost every price point in the market and has been aggressively pushing its devices using online as well as offline channels.

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On the other hand, Xiaomi slipped to the second position for the first time since Q3 2018 as the company witnessed a 4 percent YoY decline in shipments. This could be because of supply chain issues due to COVID-19 as well as anti-China sentiments among consumers.

Vivo, Realme, and OPPO took the third, fourth, and fifth positions in the market respectively, with the companies getting 16 percent, 15 percent, and 10 percent market share respectively. While Vivo and Realme grew by 4 percent, OPPO witnessed a massive 32 percent growth.

The report also reveals that Apple surpassed OnePlus to become the leading smartphone brand in the premium segment while OnePlus led the affordable premium segment. Counterpoint clarifies that the premium segment includes devices priced between Rs 30000 to Rs 45000 while affordable premium devices are priced between Rs 20000 and Rs 30000.

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International Data Corporation (IDC) has released its report related to the smartphone shipments in the third quarter of this year, i.e. Q3 2020 and the report reveals that the South Korean giant Samsung has managed to keep its leading position.

It reveals that the quarter witness decline in smartphone shipments by 1.3 percent year-on-year, which is better than expected because of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic in which several countries were on lockdown for months.

Around 353.6 million smartphones were shipped in the third quarter of this year, i.e. from July to September. Earlier, IDC had predicted that there could be a decline of around 9 percent but the actual numbers are better than expected.

As per the report, Samsung takes the pole position with a 22.7 percent market share as the company managed to ship 80.4 million units in Q3 2020. The shipments indicate a 2.9 percent growth for the company year-on-year.

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Huawei has been ranked second with shipments of 51.9 million units, capturing around 14.7 percent of the worldwide market. When compared on a year-on-year basis, the Chinese giant’s shipments declined by a massive 22 percent.

While one Chinese market saw a decline, another witnessed tremendous growth. Xiaomi has surpassed Apple to become the third-largest smartphone brand in the world, with a market share of 13.1 percent and 46.5 million shipments. It witnessed a growth of 42 percent, mainly because of increased demand for low-end and mid-range smartphones, especially in developing countries like India.

Apple and Vivo take the fourth and fifth positions with 11.8 percent and 8.9 percent market share, respectively. While Apple shipped 41.6 million units in Q3 2020, Chinese company Vivo shipped 31.5 million units.

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Samsung recently revealed its financial report for the third quarter of this year (Q3 2020). The company announced that for the duration of July-September, it’s profit grew by 59 percent to 12.35 trillion won or $11 billion.

It’s noteworthy that this is the South Korean giant’s highest quarterly smartphone profit in years. But the company has also added that it is expecting a decline in its profit in the next quarter, i.e. in Q4 2020.

The reason started by Samsung for expecting a decline in profit next quarter is the weak demand for server chips and increasing competition in the smartphone market. Although the market amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Korea-based company is still wary of the disruption caused and rising tensions because of the US-China trade war.

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Reuters reports that in an earnings call, Ben Suh, Samsung’s executive vice president of investor relations, said that “Global demand is forecast to increase year on year, but uncertainties are unlikely to ease given the possibility of additional waves of the pandemic.”

However, Samsung is expecting a rise in demand for mobile chips as China-based customers have increased their orders after the United States government imposed more restrictions on Huawei.

Samsung has announced that the company’s profit in the chipset business rose 82 percent to 5.54 trillion won compared to last year. The company’s revenue increased by 8 percent to 66.96 trillion won while the net profit rose 49 percent to 9.36 trillion won.

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Global PC shipments have soared up in Q3 2020 according to research firms Gartner, and IDC. The main reason tabled by both firms is the increased demand in PCs for home entertainment, distance learning as the world faced a second wave of COVID-19.

First, Garner says(via ZDNet) PC shipments for Q3 2020 is 71.4 million units. This is a 3.6% increase YoY from 2019. Lenovo remained at the top with 18.3 million units clocking an 8.3% YoY from 2019. Also, Lenovo reportedly faced a decline in desktop shipments but demand from China saved it. Apple occupied fourth place behind HP, and Dell despite having a higher YoY growth in Q3 of 7.3%.

That said, Garnet says its report doesn’t include Chromebook shipments but desktop and notebook PCs. However, a rough report says the demand was higher especially in countries like the US which lead to a 90% growth in Q3. Likewise, HP though trailed behind Lenovo globally dominated the US PC shipments with a 15.4% YoY growth compared to Lenovo’s 10.5%. Research Director at Gartner, Kitagawa says that Mobile PC demand surged in the US as business shifted from desktop to Mobile PCs whilst bringing some of the workers back to the office.

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Furthermore, IDC(International Data Corporation) report says that Global PC shipments stand at 81.272 million units for Q3 2020. This is a 14.6% YoY growth from 2019. Report says Asia/Pacific(ApeJ) excluding Japan posted single-digit growth with shipments driven by inventory restocking and strong demand for Notebook PCs. The situation for Europe, Middle East, Africa(EMEA) remained the same. In the USA and Canada, traditional PCs clocked growth for Q3 as stay-at-home continued.

Once again, just like the previous report, Lenovo, and HP topped the charts with 19.272, and 18.690 million units respectively. Both of them almost clocked the same 11.2% YoY growth. Following them, Dell, Apple, Acer Group, and others completed this list. That said, as per IDC, both Lenovo, and HP dominated the global arena with a near 23.7%, and 23% market shares respectively. IDC’s Jitesh Ubrani says that if there was no shortage of components, the shipments would have soared even higher.

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South Korean giant Samsung Electronics has today revealed that the company’s profit for the three months that ended in September, i.e. in Q3 2020, has likely witnessed a growth of 58 percent compared to last year.

As per the company, the operating profit for the third quarter of this year stands at 12.3 trillion Korean won, which is about $10.6 billion. Consolidated sales were approximately 66 trillion won for the quarter, up about 6.5 percent than a year ago.

The numbers revealed by Samsung in its earnings guidance is higher than the 10.5 trillion won that analysts had predicted for the September quarter. In the second quarter, the company had posted a 23 percent jump in operating profit to 8.1 trillion won (~$7 billion).

Samsung has not provided a breakdown of how its different business units performance. However, it is being speculated that the results are driven by a rise in smartphone sales, consumer electronics, and home appliances in the third quarter as well as higher earnings in the memory-related business.

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The South Korean giant is in a pretty good position right now and is expected to register further growth in the coming quarters, at the expense of Huawei. The Chinese giant is facing several issues and is currently fighting to keep its business afloat and the biggest beneficiary seems to be Samsung.

Apart from the smartphone business, Samsung is also impacting Huawei in the network equipment business. Last month, the company won a network equipment supply contract from Verizon worth around $6.6 billion.

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Samsung Electronics was dethroned from its world’s leading smartphone brand as China-based Huawei surpassed it in the second quarter of this year. This was mainly because of lower-than-expected sales of the flagship Galaxy S20 lineup.

However, now it seems that the company is in a better position. As per the reports, analysts believe that the company could report strong earnings for the third quarter of this year, mainly because of solid semiconductor business and smartphone sales.

It is being estimated that the South Korean giant could post a 20.7 percent increase in sales and about a 27.6 percent increase in operating profit compared to the numbers shared by the company for the previous quarter.

The prices for memory chips have declined in the market by 10 percent to 15 percent and despite that, Samsung has managed to sail through without a big drop in sales. In fact, analysts estimate that the chip business of Samsung could post an operating profit of around 5 trillion won for the third quarter.

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Further, the company’s foundry business also reported growth in Q3 2020 as it managed to secure chipset manufacturing orders from Qualcomm and NVIDIA. Another department where the company registers growth is smartphones.

As per the reports, Samsung’s smartphone business is estimated to report about 4 trillion won in operating profit for the third quarter of the year, more than double compared to 1.95 trillion won in Q2 2020.

The company reportedly managed to ship 80 million units of smartphones in Q3 2020, which is about 50 percent more than the previous quarter. On the other hand, sales of tablets reached 10 million units, an increase of 45 percent.

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