MediaTek ranked first in chip shipments in the third quarter, and Unisoc increased 147 times year-on-year

Market research firm CINNO Research recently released a report on mobile phone processor shipments in the Chinese market for September and the third quarter.

The report shows that the iPhone 13 series released by Apple in September had strong shipments, and its A series chips increased significantly both month-on-month (32.5%) and year-on-year (43.6%). Shipments of other Android brand phones were affected to a certain extent, with Qualcomm falling 18.5% month-on-month and MediaTek falling 17.4% month-on-month.

Unisoc ranked fifth in September with 1.2 million SoCs, a slight decrease from the previous month but an increase of about 103 times year-on-year.

Judging from the quarterly data, in the third quarter of 2021, Unisoc achieved a month-on-month growth of 96% with about 4.1 million SoCs, an astonishing increase of more than 147 times year-on-year. Unisoc maintains a high level of SoC sales, and its main supply brands are Honor, China Telecom, DOOV, Nokia and Gionee; the main SoC product is "Tiger T610", which is equipped by Honor Play 5T and Honor Play 20.

　　▼ MediaTek ranks first in shipments, but is not much different from Qualcomm

IT Home learned that according to CINNO Research's forecast of China's smartphone market sales data, Qualcomm will still be the largest mobile processor manufacturer in China's 5G smartphone market in 2021, with a market share expected to increase to 35%. At the same time, with the shrinking share of Huawei HiSilicon, MediaTek's market share is expected to increase to 33%. In 2021, China's 5G smartphone processor market will gradually change from a "three-strong" competition to a "two-super and one-strong" competition.