In the development of the smart phone field in these years, the market competition has long entered the white-hot stage, and major manufacturers have done everything in their power to try to occupy a favorable position in terms of market share. Especially when the hardware parameters of major manufacturers are basically flush, many mobile phone brands have begun to improve the global competitiveness of products by improving the cost performance, even if Apple is using the operation of "increasing the amount without increasing the price".
It is worth noting that no matter how fierce the mobile phone market competition is, the biggest benefit is its upstream industrial chain. Because many different mobile phone brands have the same core components such as chips and flash memory, and what we want to talk about here is the most core component, mobile phone chips.
In the field of mobile phone chips, the only mobile phone manufacturers that can independently develop chips are Huawei, Apple and Samsung, although Samsung has independently developed chips, but regardless of performance, power consumption performance, compared with other "competitors" do not occupy any advantage, and Samsung Orion is only for their own use, the loss in the Chinese market, so that the shipment of Samsung chips is in a very embarrassing position.
Huawei is already behind
As the strongest semiconductor technology in mainland China, Huawei HiSilicon, although it occupies a great advantage in chip design and communication baseband, due to manufacturing restrictions, Huawei's Kirin chip inventory has been stretched, and its market share has been declining. According to Counterpoint's global mobile phone chip shipments in the fourth quarter of 2021, Huawei's chip shipments have lagged behind and have been kneaded into a ball and placed in the "other" ranks.
Qualcomm did not qualify for the first place
Many people believe that when the major Android flagship models have chosen Snapdragon chips as the driving environment, Qualcomm, known for its extreme performance, will become a leader in the field of mobile phone chips. But the data shows that Qualcomm did not achieve the first position, but MediaTek.
Although Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip is the standard of the Android flagship camp, but the Snapdragon 888 does not dare to compliment, although the use of 5nm process, but also has the ultimate performance, but easy to heat up problems, mobile phone manufacturers in the temperature control do not have enough experience, so that consumers choose to wait and see. Moreover, because Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 was released at the end of 2021, many consumers who held coins were waiting for a new batch of Snapdragon 8 flagship machines, but instead gave MediaTek, which is known for its high cost performance, a wedding dress.
The third place was a bit strong
In the mobile phone chip shipment rankings, we have to mention the third place Apple. Unlike Chip suppliers such as MediaTek and Qualcomm, because the gold content of this "third place" is very high, it should be known that Apple's A series chips do not allow other brands to use. According to supply chain news, the price of one chip of Apple is about $100, but for every chip Apple sells, it sells a device and technical service fees for subsequent sustainable revenue.
Compared with MediaTek and Qualcomm, perhaps Apple's chip use range is relatively small, but in terms of performance, Apple's A series is not inferior to Qualcomm's flagship series. For example, Apple's A15, the number of transistors is as high as 15 billion, Geekbench single-core running score is more than 1700 points, multi-core running score is the lowest 4587 points, the same as the 5nm process of Snapdragon 888, single-core running score is only 1130 points, multi-core running score is about 3800. Even Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8, although the GPU performance has risen sharply, it is still slightly inferior to the A15 full-blood version, which can be seen in the dominance of the A15 in the mobile phone chip market.
Coupled with Apple's smooth and secure IOS system and rich App Store, these are the chips that drive Apple's mobile phone and chip shipments. Even if Apple's chip shipments are not the first, Apple's overall revenue makes other mobile phones and chip manufacturers hopeless!
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