Mediatek is showing signs of recovery, but it is not easy to return to the peak

With the adoption of MediaTek chips by OPPO, vivo, and Xiaomi, Mediatek’s chip shipments have shown signs of recovery. However, it is still difficult to return to peaks in the current situation. In the upcoming 5G era, MediaTek is even more In a disadvantageous position.

MediaTek is showing signs of recovery

After repeated setbacks last year, MediaTek began to focus on the midrange market. Recently, MediaTek launched the mid-range chip helioP60. This chip uses a quad-core A73+ quad-core A53 architecture and is manufactured on TSMC's 12nm FinFET process. It integrates the Mali-G72MP3 and supports LTE Cat7 technology. , And MediaTek is the first chip to support AI.

In terms of performance and Qualcomm's current high-end chip Xiaolong 660 is not much difference, Xiaolong 660 quad-core Kryo2602.2GHz + quad-core Kryo2601.8GHz, using Samsung's 14nmFinFET process production, but Xiaolong 660 in the GPU performance is slightly stronger, Baseband technology is also ahead of MediaTek P60. Opteron 660 supports LTE Cat12 technology. Unfortunately, it does not support AI.

Taking into account the advantage of MediaTek's chip in terms of price/performance and supporting the popular AI function, domestic mobile phone companies OPPO, vivo, and Xiaomi have reportedly planned to use the P60 chip to release new mobile phones. Due to the outstanding performance of P60, MediaTek is planning to launch a new P60. Some of the lower-end P-series chips have seized more market share. Analysts are optimistic about the performance of MediaTek, raising its chip shipments in the second quarter to more than 100 million units, which is more than two percent higher than in the first quarter.

Qualcomm will not sit back

Qualcomm has undoubtedly already taken advantage of the high-end chip market. Both Xiaolong 820 and Xiaolong 835 released in the past two years have been used by domestic mobile phone brands for their flagship mobile phones. Last year, MediaTek decided to abandon the high-end market to allow Qualcomm to dominate the high-end chip market. In addition to Huawei's development of its own chips and Apple's use of its own A-series processors, Samsung's flagship phone also includes Qualcomm chips and its own chips. Other mobile phone companies use Qualcomm's high-end chips.

In the mid-end chip market, Qualcomm's Xiaolong 660 and Xiaolong 63X chips are also commonly used by domestic mobile phones. MediaTek's mid-end chips P23 and P30 released in the second half of last year were used only by some mobile phone companies because of its relatively good performance. Until recently released P60 helped it share more market share in the mid-market.

However, Qualcomm's upcoming Quelong 700 chip is enough to suppress MediaTek's P60 chip. From the data of Geekbench, we can see that the chip has a certain improvement in performance, especially in terms of single-core performance reached more than 1840 points, compared with the P60's 1520 points strong More than two percent, there is also a certain improvement in the GPU performance, of course, more important is the introduction of AI Qualcomm function, which is the first time it introduces the AI ​​function in the mid-range chip market, so that MediaTek's P60 is difficult to deal with.

5G Times MediaTek Falls Behind Qualcomm

China Mobile has made it clear that it will commercialize 5G next year. Qualcomm has released a baseband X50 supporting 5G last year. Qualcomm also said that it will launch an SOC for smart phones next year; MediaTek will be able to complete the verification of 5G prototype chips by the end of this year, which means that On the progress of 5G chip development, it has a considerable gap with Qualcomm.

In the second quarter of 2016, MediaTek took the first place in China’s mobile phone chip market, which was its most brilliant moment, but then China Mobile required mobile phone chip companies and mobile phone companies to support LTE Cat7 technology since October 2016. MediaTek failed to support the technology and caused its market share to drop rapidly. Qualcomm was then regained the position of China's mobile phone chip market.

Visible technology is the key factor leading MediaTek to fall from the peak. MediaTek is once again technically behind MediaTek in the 5G chip market, which will cause it to be in a disadvantageous position in the market competition. In fact, even if the second quarter, MediaTek's chip shipments. The return of 100 million pieces is only equivalent to the third and fourth quarters of last year.

The author believes that in the second half of this year under the repression of Qualcomm MediaTek is likely to be inhibited by the momentum of its recovery, and by the time next year, commercial use of 5G MediaTek will be fully suppressed by Qualcomm, and it hopes to return to the glorious possibility of the second quarter of 2016 and Not great.

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