MediaTek now has the biggest market share of any chipmaker for Android phones in the United States, beating out Qualcomm, which has long held the title.
The news comes from IDC’s quarterly mobile phone sales tracker, which reports as of Q4 2021 that MediaTek chips now account for 51 percent of all Android phones in the United States, compared to 47 percent for Qualcomm, as spotted by PCMag. Those numbers are a stark inversion from the previous quarter, where MediaTek had a 41 percent market share to Qualcomm’s 56 percent.
MediaTek isn’t as much of a household name for smartphone processors as Qualcomm (which has long been the dominant force for Android phones in the US, especially for high-end flagships). But the company has been…
