Qualcomm Snapdragon Chips Mostly Power $300+ Smartphones | MediaTek Tops Cheaper Devices

Qualcomm Snapdragon chips primarily dominate Android smartphones with prices more than $300, whereas MediaTek-powered mobile devices tend to be the cheaper ones, a recent report says.

Qualcomm Snapdragon vs. MediaTek Chips

As per a news story by The Verge, MediaTek chips now has a massive lead over Qualcomm's Snadgrapon system-on-chip or SoCs, in terms of Android market share in the United States.

As such, MediaTek now notably grabs the biggest market share for Android smartphone chipmakers in the US, according to the analyst group IDC in its latest phone sales tracker.

In the fourth quarter of 2021, Android phones with MediaTek chips got 48.1% of the total market share in the US.

On the other hand, Qualcomm only garnered 43.9 percent from the US Android smartphone market.

In the previous quarter of the year, MediaTek was lagging behind the reign of Qualcomm with only 41 percent, while the latter, which owns Snapdragon chips, took 56 percent.

However, another analyst group, Counterpoint Research, reported that Qualcomm still takes 55 percent of the total market share, whereas MediaTek only got a 37 percent slice of the pie.

Qualcomm Snapdragon's Reign in High-End Phones

The Verge said in the same report that the flagship SoC of Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 888, is mostly seen on high-end Android devices released in the United States.

Meanwhile, according to a recent report by GizmoChina, Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets primarily power most flagship and mid-range devices of various phone makers, snatching 50% market share of the devices priced more than $300.

However, the reign of Qualcomm stops at the more expensive bracket of flagship phones, ranging from $700 up to $799, wherein Samsung's Exynos chip already leads the market share with 46%.

MediaTek and Budget Smartphones

The recent report from the analyst group, IDC, said that the massive growth in the market share numbers of MediaTek was triggered by the popularity of the A series budget-entry devices of Samsung, namely the Galaxy A12 and the Galaxy A32, as well as the Motorola G Pure.

It is also worth noting that these devices dominated the MediaTek phone sales in the fourth quarter of 2021, taking up to 24 percent of the whole market for phones powered by the Taiwanese chipmaker.

GizmoChina noted in its report that cheaper phones, priced below $299, which are basically budget entry-level phones, are dominated by MediaTek with its Dimensity 800, Dimensity 700, and Helio chipsets.

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Written by Teejay Boris