Samsung’s smartphone chipset market share to improve this year: Report

The global smartphone AP market gained 25 percent to a record $25 billion last year because of the solid demand for 5G-supporting APs that accounted for more than 25 percent of all smartphone APs shipped in 2020, reports StrategyAnalytics. There was also increased demand for 7nm and 5nm APs which benefited TSMC and Samsung.

In terms of revenue in 2020, Samsung became the world’s fifth-largest smartphone application processor (AP) maker. However, the company’s mobile AP performance largely depends on its Galaxy smartphone sales as it focusing to expand its presence in the mobile microprocessor sector.

Back in 2020, the Korean tech giant defended its status as the world’s largest smartphone producer but saw its handset shipments drop. It is worth mentioning that Samsung has had success with its Vivo 5G chip relationship in 2020 while the Korean customer’s underperformance in the smartphone market limited its growth.

Strategy Analytics projected that Samsung is likely to expand its presence in the mobile AP market this year with improved handset sales.

“Samsung Mobile is expected to perform better in 2021 with its increased shipments in the 5G space,” the researcher said.

On the other hand, Qualcomm led the smartphone chipset market because of the popular demand of its Snapdragon series with an impressive share of 31 percent.

Apple was landed on the second spot with a 23 percent share after its A14 Bionic which powers the iPhone 12 series, followed by HiSilicon listed on third with an 18% revenue share and MediaTek dropped on fourth with 18% share.

“Leading-edge 5nm and 7nm APs accounted for 40 percent of all smartphone AP shipments in 2020, boosting overall average selling prices,” Kundojjala said.

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