China's smartphone SoC market: MediaTek surpassed Qualcomm in first place, and Huawei Kirin ranked fourth

Abstract: A few days ago, CINNO Research released a November China Smartphone SoC research report showing that MediaTek once again surpassed Qualcomm in the first place.

A few days ago, CINNO Research released a November China Smartphone SoC research report showing that MediaTek once again surpassed Qualcomm in the first place.

At a time when Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin sanctions are gradually declining, China's mobile phone SoC market has evolved into a battle between MediaTek and Qualcomm, while Apple's A-series chips rely on the strong momentum of the iPhone 13 to firmly occupy the third place.

According to monthly data from CINNO Research, in November, MediaTek surpassed Qualcomm again in terms of mobile phone SoC, topped the list in November with 8.6 million smartphone chip sales, followed by Qualcomm with 8.4 million units in the current month, and the sales gap between the two manufacturers was further narrowed.

It is understood that the Redmi Note 11 series is equipped with Tianji 920 and Tianji 820 chips, focusing on the mid-end market, which has also driven the sales of MediaTek Tianji series chips.

At present, the manufacturers of MediaTek Tianji chips are OPPO, vivo, Realme, Huawei, ZTE, etc., and the products are mainly positioned in the entry and mid-end, which is also the main force of sales in November.

In addition, the sales of Apple's A series chips are still increasing, ranking third, but the rapid increase in the past one or two months has slowed down.

Huawei HiSilicon and Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui ranked fourth and fifth in sales in the month with sales of 1.1 million units and 800,000 units respectively.

HiSilicon chip market share was flat month-on-month, but the year-on-year decline was still huge. Analysts at CINNO Research said that HiSilicon inventory cannot predict when it will bottom, and it still adopts a series of inventory control methods.

CINNO Research predicts that in the chinese smartphone SoC market in 2021, MediaTek is the largest processor manufacturer, and the market share is expected to increase to 36%, and Qualcomm is expected to increase to 35%.

In China's 5G smartphone market, Qualcomm is the largest processor manufacturer, and its market share is expected to increase to 37%, and MediaTek's market share is expected to increase to 34%.