Taiwan Semiconductor Production Corporate (TSMC) was once the main international semiconductor producer for the January – March length in line with Counterpoint Analysis’s newest file. TSMC reportedly managed 70% of the appliance processor (AP), system-on-chip (SoC) and cell modems going into smartphone chipsets. Samsung Foundry got here in 2nd position with a 30% marketplace proportion.
International smartphone chipset shipments proportion through foundry (Q1 2022)
The worldwide smartphone chipset marketplace noticed a 5% cargo decline in comparison to Q1 2021 although revenues for a similar length had been 23% upper this time round. Curiously sufficient TSMC-sourced chipsets declined through 9% on a every year foundation. Samsung did hang the higher hand in the case of smartphone chipset node proportion for Q1 2022 at 60% pushed in huge through Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Main smartphone chipsets nodes proportion (Q1 2021 vs Q1 2022)
TSMC is predicted to dominate the remainder of the 12 months with its 4nm node getting used within the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. Qualcomm, MediaTek and Apple are all anticipated to make use of TSMC’s 4nm procedure node.
