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MediaTek Passes Qualcomm as # 1 2020 Provider of Smartphone SOCs
 
Omdia reported MediaTek's chipset shipments to the major smartphone OEMs in 2020 reached 351.8 million units, compared to 238 million in 2019, up 47.8% Y/Y, even as smartphone shipments were down 12%. The company moved past Qualcomm in market share for the first time.  MediaTek 2020 share was 27.2% market share vs.17.2% in 2019. Xiaomi was MediaTek’s largest customer last year, shipping 63.7 million smartphones powered by MediaTek chips, compare with 19.7 million units in 2019. In 2020, Samsung bought 43.3 million MediaTek chips, up 254.5% year-over-year, Omdia noted. OPPO was MediaTek's 2nd biggest customer in 2020, shipping 55.3 million MediaTek-powered smartphones up from 46.3 million units in 2019, and  a combined 83.19 million were shipped by OPPO and Realme. MediaTek is expected to extend last year's lead trend on smartphone chipset shipment as there will be more chipset outsourcing demand from the Honor and Huawei, because of Kirin chipset  can no longer be produced.
 

Source; Digitimes