114 million units of MediaTek-powered smartphones shipped during the first quarter of this year, a 17% gain year-over-year. MediaTek also held the top spot during last year’s first quarter. Qualcomm was second based on units shipped as 75 million phones packed with a Snapdragon processor were delivered during the January through March period, 11% more than last year’s Q1.
MediaTek dropped from the top chip designer to third place when ranking by average revenue of phones sold
Apple’s A-series chips, used on the iPhone, suffered through a 16% annual decline in shipments during the first quarter as 49 million iPhones were delivered in Q1. That put Apple in third place followed by China’s fabless chip designer UNISOC (formerly Spreadtrum Communications, Inc.) whose chips were found in 26 million phones shipped in Q1. Samsung’s Exynos APs were in 18 million phones shipped in Q1, off 18% year-over-year. That was good for fifth place.
No chip designer had more phones shipped in Q1 carrying their application processors than MediaTek
Google’s Tensor chip (and thus its Pixel handsets) finished at the bottom of both lists
Huawei phones sold in the first quarter of this year running HiSilicon’s Kirin chipsets were sold for $6 billion (average price was $750) putting the Huawei unit in fifth place. With a 49% annual increase in revenue to $3 billion, phones equipped with UNISOC SoCs sold at an average price of $115.38.
Google finished in seventh place again when ranking by revenue. The dollar amount of Pixel phones using the Tensor AP sold in the first quarter amounted to $2 billion, up 36% year-over-year. The average price of a Pixel unit sold in the first quarter was $1,000.
