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Yet, very remarkable given that they were nearly stomped out of the market around 2010-2012 by previously "no-name" SoC makers, making cookie cutter SoCs cheap,
by baybal2 6y ago
Yet, very remarkable given that they were nearly stomped out of the market around 2010-2012 by previously "no-name" SoC makers, making cookie cutter SoCs cheap, fast, and selling by tons.
Yet, they recovered, and clawed back their way to the top, with only MediaTek now threatening them.
I don't expect MediaTek to be as inept, and Pavlovian if Qualcomm will ever come to them with a deal, as they did with Allwinner 8 years ago (Allwinner gave up on mobile market, and Qualcomm gave them an obscene cut from their low-end Snapdragons in return.)
And knowing Taiwanese, they simply don't sell companies owners spent their life working on. Very ego driven business culture.
- robert_foss 6y agoMediatek has 31% market share of the smartphone SOC market, and Qualcomm 29%. https://www.counterpointresearch.com/mediatek-biggest-smartphone-chipset-vendor-q3-2020/ https://www.counterpointresearch.com/mediatek-biggest-smartp...
- phonon 6y agoI think that must be in units, not dollars. Qualcomm chipsets are nearly universal on the higher end.
- robert_foss 6y agoNot having looked at it at all, I think so too. But the trajectory of them overtaking Qcom is interesting either way.
- rektide 6y agothis would help explain why all winner was on a roll making pretty great chips and has shipped absolutely worthless tripe for! he past 5 years. re-spins of rhe same shit they had been making. the chip making game feels so diseased.