MediaTek beat out Apple and Qualcomm to finish 2023 as the top smartphone chip vendor – TechSpot
Apple finished second with 78 million smartphone shipments, up eight percent compared to the same period a year earlier. Qualcomm placed third with 69 million chip shipments, an increase of just one percent versus Q4 2022.
Unisoc, a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based out of Shanghai, earned fourth place honors with 27 million shipments – an increase of 24 percent year over year. Samsung came in fifth place with 13 million units shipped, a huge dip of 48 percent compared to the year-ago period. HiSilicon, another Chinese fabless specialist, was sixth with seven million units shipped – a colossal 5,121 percent increase. Google rounded out the list in last place with three million SoCs shipped in Q4.
It’s a bit of a different story when looking at shipment revenue. In this category, Apple led with $87 billion – up 20 percent year over year. Qualcomm came in second with $30 billion, which was down two percent compared to a year earlier. MediaTek finished in third with $23 billion in revenue, an increase of 22 percent versus the same period a year ago.
Revenue falls off a bit after that, with HiSilicon capturing fourth place with $7 billion (but up 24,471 percent year over year). Samsung took the hardest hit in terms of revenue, with a 44 percent drop down to just $5 billion in the quarter.
Samsung’s woes aren’t all that surprising when you consider its Exynos chipset. With the new Galaxy S24 and S24+, for example, most versions ship with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (Exynos is only used in certain markets), and the high-end S24 Ultra gets the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in all markets.
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