Qualcomm leads smartphone app processor market with 31% of revenue share: Report

Chip-maker Qualcomm led the worldwide smartphone application processor (AP) market on 2020 with a revenue share of 31 per cent, thanks to popular demand of its Snapdragon series, according to a new report.
Apple was second with a 23 per cent share after its A14 Bionic, the world’s first 5-nanometer AP, got a boost from the launch of the iPhone 12, according to according to market researcher Strategy Analytics.
China’s HiSilicon with 18 per cent AP market share was third while Taiwan’s MediaTek was narrowly behind HiSilicon to rank fourth, also with an 18 per cent share.
Samsung, which makes the Exynos chipsets, was the world’s fifth-largest smartphone AP vendor last year with 9 per cent market share.
Apple maintained its tablet AP market leadership with a 48 per cent revenue share in 2020, followed by Intel with 16 per cent and Qualcomm with 14 per cent.