The industry believes that with the smart phone brand home-made mobile phone core chip at the core, coupled with the lack of demand for high-end models, Qualcomm and MediaTek these two mobile phone chip maker, will be in 2018 will focus on storming the low-end artillery market, Follow-up whether to launch a price war rob market, it is worth attention.
The world's top three smartphone brands Apple, Samsung and Huawei have core chip design capabilities, of which Apple's own application processor, then the acquisition of Qualcomm and Intel's baseband chip; Samsung and Huawei have their own single-chip mobile phone system, but At the same time with the use of Qualcomm, MediaTek or Spreadtrum other professional mobile phone chip factory chips.
The market also came out, the original efforts to sell their own mobile phone Orion chip Samsung, Meizu this year to expand outside looking for tourists; together with Huawei began to import the Hass chip midrange models, will result in third-party mobile phone chip The factory market followed by narrowing the pie.
For the major flagship models of the main handset supplier Qualcomm, facing considerable pressure, the potential will be moved to the field of low-end models; MediaTek also have to grab back the share, 2018 is still a fierce mobile phone chip war one year.