Qualcomm will remain No.1 with MediaTek No.2. But Qualcomm is expected to show a 1.5% decline in 2018 shipments.

MediaTek’s customer base does not overlap much with the device vendors using their own chips and MediaTek has introduced competitive mainstream processors which have been adopted by downstream smartphone vendors.

Why build a custom chip?

As such, MediaTek is expected to see a 2.1% increase in 2018 shipments but it may have difficulty reaching its 2018 goal of shipping 400 million chips due to slowing growth in the smartphone end market.

Cortex-A53 remains the mainstream processor core, followed by in-house-developed architectures.

28nm is still the dominant node.

It is estimated 26.9% of smartphone AP shipments will have deep learning inference and even training capabilities enabled by heterogeneous computing in 2018.

By: DocMemory
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