HiSilicon, MediaTek, Nvidia growing fastest in apps processor market
The global smartphone applications processor market was worth $4.7 billion in 1Q14, up 25 percent year-on-year, according to Strategy Analytics. Qualcomm remained clear market leader, as it has been more for many quarters, with 53 percent. However, the lead Qualcomm enjoys did abate. Qualcomm was responsible for 56 percent of the market across the complete 2013 calendar year.
The top five ranking of vendors – Qualcomm, Apple, MediaTek, Samsung and Spreadtrum – was unchanged in their order from 2013 (see Qualcomm leads, Intel lags in smartphone processor market). Apple captured 16 percent of revenue share and MediaTek gained 13 percent revenue share. As Apple is an internal supplier of application processors it is must be hard to gauge the value of its chips which are used inside its iPhones and iPads. Nonetheless Qualcomm’s LTE modem chips gained traction across various price tiers in 1Q14, according to the market research firm.
"During Q1 2014, HiSilicon, Intel, MediaTek and Nvidia registered triple-digit year-over-year shipment growth while Apple, Marvell, Qualcomm and Spreadtrum registered double-digit unit shipment growth," said Sravan Kundojjala, senior analyst with Strategy Analytics.
"Strategy Analytics believes that Qualcomm’s investments in CPU, GPU, DSP, RF, location, and connectivity technologies are paying off and are providing differentiation to its chips in the crowded applications processor market," said Stuart Robinson, director of the Strategy Analytics handset component technologies service, in the same statement.
That may be, but still Qualcomm lost market share against calendar 2013.
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