MediaTek's dominance over Qualcomm drops sharply in last quarter 2021

Earlier it was reported that MediaTek had won the chip competition against Qualcomm and become the top company in this regard. But new reports show that the company's superiority has plummeted in the last quarter of last year.

Counterpoint recently released its latest CPU market report for the last quarter of 2021. From October to December. During this time, MediaTek was the world's largest chip maker, outperforming Qualcomm. But its dominance fell sharply from the last quarter of 2020. Two years ago, MediaTek was the world's largest chip maker with 37% market share, beating Qualcomm by 23%, Apple by 22%, Unisoc by 4% and Samsung by 7%. p>

In the last quarter of last year, the story changed completely. MediaTek's market share fell by 4% to 33%. Qualcomm, meanwhile, was once again successful, growing by 7%, reducing its stake to 30% and its gap with MediaTek by 3%. Apple and Samsung fell 1.1% and 3%, respectively, and Unisoc grew 7%.

According to a Counterpoint report, the main reason for MediaTek's declining market share was , Has been in high demand by hardware companies. High means more than expected because companies were worried about CPU shortages due to the global chip problem. It was as a result of this concern that demand spread among all chip companies to shift focus from one company to another. On the other hand, when it was the last quarter of the year, companies preferred to use their inventory instead of buying a new chip, so they no longer bought new ones.

MediaTek's market share still remains good, with one of the main reasons for its success being the Dimensity 9000 flagship chip. A processor with extremely high processing power and graphics, which even surpassed the 1st generation Snapdragon 8 without any specific report of a problem such as overheating. On the other hand, producing 5G chips at a reasonable price was one of the unique policies that made MediaTek gain a large market share. Because the number of 5G handsets is increasing every year, and naturally companies will definitely go for it when they know a high-performance, affordable chip is available.

As you can see, Qualcomm's share of The market grew significantly, from 23% to 30%. One of the main reasons for Qualcomm's success in this field is the presence of Samsung and TSMC as chip manufacturers, which has led to a significant increase in production speed and, consequently, their volume. Recent reports suggest, however, that Qualcomm will partner with TSMC instead of Samsung to produce the 2nm Snapdragon 8 2nm chip. have. For example, this company is unrivaled in the production of 5G modems compared to other companies active in this field and has been able to own 76% of the market share. The share of the American company in the period of the last quarter of 2020 was about 63%. According to Counterpoint, one of the main reasons for Qualcomm's success in this area has been the high demand for users to buy the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 series, all of which include Qualcomm 5G modems. After Qualcomm, we see MediaTek, which was able to increase its share from 17% in 2020 to 18% in 2021, and finally Samsung, whose share has again decreased (from 5 to 4%).

Unisoc, another processor manufacturing company commonly named on chips used in smartphones We also see Nokia grow significantly over the course of a year, growing its share from 4% to 11%. The main reason for the company's growth is the cooperation of other companies such as Honor, Riley, Motorola, ZTE and even Samsung.

Speaking of Samsung, we should also mention the company's share in the chip market, which Decreased to 7.%. The company's poor chip performance has led it to reach out to other companies such as MediaTek and Qualcomm to provide the beating heart of its handsets. Its share is listed. The main reason for not mentioning the company's share is the heavy US sanctions, which have almost plunged it into the abyss of destruction. As a result of these sanctions, Huawei was forced to use the 4G version of Qualcomm's powerful processors for its flagship handsets, thus reducing HiSilicon's share of the chip market to 1%.

Source: PhoneArena <// a>