A couple of years back, circa 2017, MediaTek‘s chipsets were only fit for use on budget phones. The company could only manage to grab some shares in the midrange segment while its flagship Helio X30 processors were only utilized by Meizu on the Meizu Pro 7 High Edition which, unfortunately, couldn’t fly. The company went back to the drawing board and upped its game and today, it is a different story. MediaTek is now solidly rooted in the midrange and flagship segment and is apparently slowly edging Qualcomm out of the top seat. In China, the story is no different. Data released by Chinese research firm CINNO Research detailed the SoC sales ranking in the Chinese smartphone market in 2021. According to the published data, the top five on the list are MediaTek, Qualcomm, Apple, HiSilicon, and Unisoc.

Among them, MediaTek shipped 110 million units in 2021 as against 77 .4 million units shipped in 2020. This represents a year-on-year increase of 42.5%. Although Qualcomm surpassed its shipment for 2020 by 24.2%, its total estimate of 106 million units fell short of MediaTek’s estimate.

Apple shipped an estimated 50.4 million units in the year under review, ranking third in the Chinese market, with a year-on-year increase of 38.8%.

It is no surprise that Huawei’s Hisilicon, still stunted by the US ban only managed a total shipment of 30.2 million units which represents a year-on-year decrease of 68.6%. It is noteworthy that Huawei is the only company among the top 5 that recorded a decrease in its shipment YoY.

The top 5 is completed by Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer Unisoc with a total shipment of 8.8 million units which is a staggering 10,312.7% increase over its 2020 shipments.

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