Qualcomm company has repeatedly pointed out that the main competitor in China is MediaTek company . The difference between the sales volumes of processors for smartphones for Qualcomm and MediaTek is large enough . American developer leads the market with about 40%, and MediaTek closes the top five, holding just over 10% of the market. While Qualcomm is on the rise. Last year, the company was recognized as GlobalFoundries two most rapidly growing industries IT-sector.
According to the President's of MediaTek, Xie Jin-Jiang , in 2013, the company may issue 200 million processors for smartphones. The share of decisions - about 40-50% - will be quad-core, and 25-35% - dual. In the fourth quarter, for example , were sold about 220 million smartphones. In other words, MediaTek company expected to take up to a quarter of the market of corresponding processors.
MediaTek expects to lower average prices for processors. Compared to the cost of processors in 2012, the price of sample processor 2013 will decrease by 10%. Orientation for smartphones clearly puts an end to the processor for conventional cell phones. This year, the company will reduce the supply of such decisions for another quarter, as it did in 2012. But processors for tablets will be more. MediaTek plans to achieve production of 5 to 10 million processors for tablet computers. Compared with the fourth quarter - is 10-20% of the global tablet market.