MediaTek Becomes Biggest Smartphone Chipset Vendor (digitimes.com) 10
MediaTek became the biggest smartphone chipset vendor with 31% market share in the third quarter of 2020, when smartphone sales rebounded during the quarter, according to Counterpoint Research. From a report: MediaTek's strong performance in the US$100-250 price band and growth in key regions like China and India helped it become the biggest smartphone chipset vendor during the third quarter, said Counterpoint. Qualcomm was the biggest 5G chipset vendor in the third quarter of 2020, powering 39% of the 5G phones sold worldwide, Counterpoint indicated. Meanwhile, sales of 5G smartphones doubled during the quarter, accounting for 17% of all smartphones sold.
With Apple launching its 5G lineup, 5G smartphone sales will continue to rise in the fourth quarter of 2020, Counterpoint noted. An estimated one-third of all smartphones shipped will be 5G-enabled, Counterpoint said. "The share of MediaTek chipsets in Xiaomi has increased by more than three times since the same period last year," said Counterpoint research director Dale Gai. "MediaTek was also able to leverage the gap created due to the US ban on Huawei. Affordable MediaTek chips fabricated by TSMC became the first option for many OEMs to quickly fill the gap left by Huawei's absence. Huawei had also previously purchased a significant amount of chipsets ahead of the ban."
With Apple launching its 5G lineup, 5G smartphone sales will continue to rise in the fourth quarter of 2020, Counterpoint noted. An estimated one-third of all smartphones shipped will be 5G-enabled, Counterpoint said. "The share of MediaTek chipsets in Xiaomi has increased by more than three times since the same period last year," said Counterpoint research director Dale Gai. "MediaTek was also able to leverage the gap created due to the US ban on Huawei. Affordable MediaTek chips fabricated by TSMC became the first option for many OEMs to quickly fill the gap left by Huawei's absence. Huawei had also previously purchased a significant amount of chipsets ahead of the ban."
Chips (Score:2)
Re:Chips (Score:5, Informative)
Article does not name a single media tek chip... Dimensity is the current best.
"Qualcomm and MediaTek have both reshuffled their portfolios, and consumer focus has played a key role here. Last year, MediaTek launched a new gaming-based G-series, while Dimensity chipsets have helped in bringing 5G to affordable categories. The world's cheapest 5G device, the realme V3, is powered by MediaTek."
You should try reading the article next time.
Re: Chips (Score:2)
Heresy! This is Slashdot! You're already potentially in trouble if you read the summary...
Re: You can take guns into a US embassy (Score:2)
Sure you can. You can even use them for their literally only purpose: To murder.
It's just that somebody else can take a gun and stop you *too*. Like a government employee with a nice cell waiting for you. ;)
You know Freee.dooo.mmm! (to be a dick) ;-)
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Re: You can take guns into a US embassy (Score:2)
Embassies aren't foreign land, rather the people who reside there have diplomatic immunity. So for example, if a foreign woman gave birth at a US embassy, the child would not gain birthright citizenship because that is not a US territory.
No wonder (Score:2)
Qualcom expensive...
Mediatek... cheap in the end cheap and good enough always wins!
Does anyone know how flashing works with them? (Score:1)
I remember my old MediaTek-powered phone being completely unbrickable, because even with a wiped bootloader (!) and the thing in the *off* state, you could still flash it and get the thing working again, because flashing was literally built into the SoC.
Which was extremely nice and calming for a rooter like me.
But of course that also meant anyone with physical access could install anything he wanted too. I'd argue that at that point, it'd usually already be too late. But it certainy made it convenient and e
Alternative to PRC hardware (Score:3)
Undoing mod I fxxxed up.
And it would be nice if Mediatek could find it in their interests to offer better support for OSS development. It's almost as it they're intentionally pushing low-end OEMs and OSS developers towards the People's Republic of China-based RockChip.
In the next stage of the new Great Game, location matters.