Although global tablet shipments fell sharply in 2017, the size of the global tablet application processor (AP) market was still able to reach the same time that the major tablet makers pushed their products towards the development of higher-performing high-performance devices. Achieving good results, reaching US$2 billion. According to the latest information from research firm Strategy Analytics, although the global tablet shipments declined sharply in 2017, among the major tablet AP vendors, Apple, Hass, and Intel Shipments of APs with vendors such as Qualcomm have both grown. However, AP shipments of MediaTek, Samsung LSI, Rockchip Microelectronics, Quanzhi Technology, and Spreadtrum declined. In terms of 2017, the top five tablet PC AP revenue companies were Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung LSI. Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm AP revenue accounted for 35.5% of the global market, 18.0% and 16.7%, respectively. In terms of AP architecture, shipments of APs based on X86 architecture in 2017 increased by 13% year-on-year; shipments of APs based on ARM architecture decreased by 7% annually. In addition, tablet PCs integrating the baseband chip in 2017 AP shipments, The total shipments of all tablet PCs accounted for 28% of the total shipments, which is equivalent to 2016. Strategy Analytics Director Sravan Kundojjala said that in addition to the major tablet PC makers in 2017, the company will develop its products towards high profitable high-performance devices. , Tablet PCs running Microsoft (Microsoft) Windows system were successfully sold in the market, and they also played an important role in upgrading the ASP of the overall tablet PC products. And as Qualcomm also joined to support the operation of the Windows system. Tablet PC products are expected to further increase the market share of Windows Tablet PCs.
