Qualcomm led the smartphone application processor (AP) market with a 40 per cent revenue share in the first quarter this year, followed by MediaTek with 26 per cent and Apple with 20 per cent, a new report has showed. The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market posted a double-digit year-on-year shipment and revenue growth in Q1 2021, according to a report by market research firm Strategy Analytics. The global smartphone AP market grew 21 per cent year-on-year to $6.8 billion in Q1 2021. 5G APs accounted for 41 per cent of total smartphone APs shipped in the first quarter. The trade war reshaped the global smartphone AP market in Q1 2021. Both Qualcomm and MediaTek made the most of HiSilicon s forced exit from the smartphone AP market due to trade restrictions, said Sravan Kundojjala, Associate Director, Handset Component Technologies service at Strategy Analytics.
how companies can minimize shortages now underway and meet skyrocketing demand.
Christopher Taylor, Director of RF & Wireless Components and author of the Cellular UE Radio Component Forecast report, stated “The latest radio architectures, historical component price and demand trends suggest that millimeter wave (mmW) modules and intermediate frequency transceivers for the mmW will undergo the highest growth rates through 2025, followed by diversity receive and related switched-filter modules, RF switches and antenna tuners. The rapid uptake of 5G will of course drive much of this growth.”
Sravan Kundojjala, Associate Director, Handset Component Technologies, added that “Earlier than anticipated recovery in demand after the onset of COVID-19, the recent earthquake near Fukushima Japan, severe weather-related electric supply shortages in the US, and the US trade war with China have all contributed to an inability to meet demand as reported by almost all leading semiconductor