As you know, Samsung makes chips for its smartphones and tablets Galaxy it not only provides its own, but also orders them from various brands, including Qualcomm and MediaTek. Last year, it increased from the latter order, helping it to become the largest seller of smartphone chipsets in the world.
MediaTek has overtaken Qualcomm to become the largest smartphone chip vendor for the first time, according to a new report from Omdia. Its chipset shipments reached 351,8 million units last year, a year-on-year increase of 47,8%. Among all its clients, Samsung showed the largest year-on-year growth in terms of orders. In 2020, the Taiwanese company shipped 43,3 million smartphone chipsets to the Korean tech giant, a staggering 254,5% year-over-year increase.
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Last year, MediaTek's largest client was Xiaomi, which bought 63,7 million chips from it, followed by Oppo with 55,3 million chipsets ordered. Ever since US sanctions were imposed on Huawei, both the Chinese giant and its former subsidiary Honor have been using chips from MediaTek in a number of their devices.
Recently, Samsung itself has been very active in the field of supplying chipsets. Last year, it supplied its Exynos 980 and Exynos 880 chips to Vivo, and this year it supplied them for the series Vivo X60 delivered the chip Exynos 1080. It is speculated that the aforementioned Xiaomi and Oppo will also use its chips in some of their future smartphones this year.
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