Recently, the research agency Counterpoint announced the global mobile phone processor market share in the Q4 quarter of 2021, the first is still MediaTek, Qualcomm second, Apple third, Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui surpassed Samsung to take the fourth place with 21%, followed by Samsung and Huawei HiSilicon.
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MediaTek's global market share at the top of the list dropped to 33 percent from 37 percent in 2020, but the rankings have not changed. MediaTek has performed well in the mobile phone processor market in recent years, and has repeatedly won the first place in the global mobile phone processor market share ranking.
Qualcomm, in second place, is recovering lost ground, rising rapidly from 23% in 2022 to 30%, and the gap with the first MediaTek is only 3%.
Looking at Apple again, there has been little change in two years, ranking third. Although Apple's processors are not sold to other brands, they insist on self-production and self-sale. Launched last year but the iPhone 13 series sold well, apple's position as the world's third place remains stable.
The top three places were in line with the Q4 quarter of 2020, but the fourth place changed from Samsung to Unigroup. Unigroup rose rapidly from 4% to 11%, while Samsung fell from 7% to 4%.
Sales of smartphone SoCs declined in the quarter due to high shipments in the first half of last year and inventory adjustments by Chinese smartphone OEMs. Many mobile phone companies have built up chipset inventories in response to supply uncertainty, so year-over-year shipments fell in the fourth quarter of 2021. MediaTek's revenue in the first quarter of 2022 is expected to grow driven by the smartphone flagship chipset (Dimensity 9000).