MediaTek Inc (聯發科), the world’s biggest supplier of 5G mobile chips, yesterday launched its latest Dimensity 6000 series chipset, seeking to capitalize on growing demand for affordable 5G smartphones in emerging markets including India.
The Hsinchu-based chip designer’s product launch comes as India and Southeast Asian countries have become a new growth area for mobile phone chip suppliers, with growth in 5G phone sales in the region bucking a downward trend in the overall smartphone market.
For example, 5G penetration in India is expected to reach 40 percent this year, compared with 20 percent last year, MediaTek said.
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“As developing markets continue rolling out 5G networks at a rapid pace and operators in developed markets work to finish transitioning consumers from 4G LTE to 5G, there has never been a more vital need for chipsets that cater to the growing number of mainstream mobile devices,” CH Chen (陳俊宏), deputy general manager of MediaTek’s wireless communications business unit, said in a statement.
Global smartphone shipments are expected to drop to 1.1 billion units this year due to high inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty, while 5G penetration worldwide would rise to about 55 percent, the company said.
The first smartphone featuring the Dimensity 6100+ chipset, made with 6-nanometer technology, is to be available next quarter, it said.
MediaTek would also increase its offering of flagship 5G processors as it plans to launch its third-generation flagship system on a chip, the Dimensity 9300 series, later this quarter, it added.
The company on Monday reported that revenue last month grew 21.07 percent sequentially to NT$38.22 billion (US$1.22 billion), but was down 25.1 percent annually.
Second-quarter revenue was NT$98.14 billion, up 2.6 percent from the previous quarter and in line with the firm’s forecast of between NT$91.8 billion and NT$99.5 billion, it said.
The smartphone chip segment was the biggest revenue contributor to MediaTek, making up about 46 percent of revenue in the first quarter, company data showed.
In April, MediaTek said the consumer electronics segment was down due to soaring inflation, adding that it expects mobile phone chip revenue to pick up sometime during the second half of this year.
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