Apple has been mobilized to fourth place in the table of the largest chipset providers in the world thanks to the increase in demand for Exynos mobile platforms, which have surpassed the Bionic chipsets of the Cupertino company in that segment, according to the market analysis firm studies CounterpointResearch.
In detail, Exynos chips enjoyed a market share of 14.1% in 2019, which represents an increase of 2.2 percentage points, compared to 2018. This is thanks to the solid growth of demand that they have enjoyed in North America and India. In turn, as data to take into account, Samsung and Huawei are the only smartphone processor vendors in the global top 5 showing growth.
GSMArena summarizes that Apple has dropped 0.5 percentage points to 13.1% share for a fourth place, ahead of Huawei, which remains in fifth place. Qualcomm and MediaTek retain their leadership positions, with a market share of 33.4% and 24.6%, respectively.
This report comes in the midst of the request which has been launched by a Samsung consumer community, which demands that the South Korean company abandon the idea of continuing to bet on chipsets for its smartphones since "they are slower than Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors."
According to what is alleged in the lawsuit published on the portal Change.org, Exynos chipsets also generate a greater and excessive heating in the models where they operate. Consumers want the firm to, at the very least, launch its Galaxy S and Note series flagships with the latest Qualcomm chipsets in Europe and China, markets where the same are always available. flagships branded with Exynos processors. Let us remember that America and the rest of the world is always worthy of the versions with SoC's Snapdragon of the brand's flagships.
