Vivo has become the leading 5G smartphone brand in the Asia Pacific market for the first time ever in the second quarter of this year. Interestingly, three of the top five 5G smartphone brands in the region were also from China.

According to a Strategy Analytics report, the Chinese smartphone maker lead the Asia Pacific market, with an annual shipment growth of a whopping 215 percent year on year. Furthermore, the Asia Pacific 5G handset shipments have also more than doubled since the same period from last year, marking a 110 percent growth annually. Meanwhile, Xiaomi arrives second in 5G smartphone shipments in the region.

Yiwen Wu, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics stated that “Vivo has grown past Xiaomi, OPPO and Apple over the course of the past year to take the top spot in 5G smartphones. Vivo has capitalized on the decline of Huawei, which in the year-ago quarter sold more than half of all 5G smartphones in the Asia Pacific region, but has virtually disappeared from the market. The combination of leading technology and affordable prices have made Vivo’s smartphones, such as its iQOO U3 5G and iQOO 7 5G, the most popular 5G devices in the region.”

Notably, other Chinese brands also saw great growth in the region during this time. Similar to Vivo and Xiaomi, Oppo arrived third in 5G smartphone shipments in Asia Pacific market. In other words, the top three brands were Chinese while their recent handset offerings were quite successful in the market. This also marks an explosive rise in demand for 5G phones and an intensifying competition in the region.

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Vivo‘s executive vice president, Hu Baishan was recently interviewed by Phoenix Network Technology. During the interview, the VP confirmed that Vivo will launch 5G products with Samsung chip by the end of the year.

Hu Baishan was apparently referring to upcoming midrange Vivo smartphones packing a 5G Exynos 980 chipset. When Samsung announced the 5G Exynos 980 chipset, it did hint that it has secured a partnership with Vivo to develop 5G products fired up by the SoC. The product was expected to be launched by the end of the year.

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The Exynos 980 is an 8nm octa-core processor with 2x high-performance Cortex-A77 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and 6x efficient Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.8GHz. It has a Mali-G76 MP5 GPU which is said to be built for gaming. It supports LPDDR4x RAM and UFS 2.1 and eMMC 5.1 storage. The maximum display resolution supported is WQHD+ and supports 20MP dual cam and 108MP single camera. The chipset also supports WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, and GNSS. The Exynos 980 comes integrated with 5G baseband in the SoC but is actually a mid-range chipset.

He also spoke about rumours of a self-developed chip from the company, stating that the company was focusing on bring out products that meet the needs of consumers. However, it is presently planning to establish a team of 300-500 persons to collaborate with partners to define the self-developed chip.

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