Overview:
Our latest infographic summarizing the best-selling smartphones from 8 countries in January 2022 is out now.
Some quick observations:
- iPhone took the top 3 spots in 6 out of 8 countries. It took the top 5 spots in Japan.
- Jio Phone Next managed to climb to be the top selling smartphone in India since its launch in Nov 2021.
- Samsung captured the top spot in South Korea with its Galaxy Z Flip 3 5G.
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Published Date: May 2022
Overview:
Our latest infographic summarizing the best-selling smartphones from 8 countries in January 2022 is out now.
Some quick observations:
- iPhone took the top 3 spots in 6 out of 8 countries. It took the top 5 spots in Japan.
- Jio Phone Next managed to climb to be the top selling smartphone in India since its launch in Nov 2021.
- Samsung captured the top spot in South Korea with its Galaxy Z Flip 3 5G.
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Published Date: May 2022
Overview:
This infographic represents the top 5 smartphone model share for eight countries in January 2022. Few highlights:
- iPhone took the top 3 spots in 6 out of 8 countries. It took the top 5 spots in Japan, again!
- Jio Phone Next managed to climb to be the top selling smartphone in India since its launch in Nov 2021
- Samsung Electronics captured the top spot in South Korea with its Galaxy Z Flip 3 5G.
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Published Date: May 2022
Overview:
TWS Market Share by Brand:
- The global TWS hearables market sales in 2021 grew 24% YoY to 299.6 million units. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic impact throughout the year, new products entered the market with more features, like ANC (Active Noise Cancellation) and expanded playtime, at affordable prices.
- TWS market leader Apple saw a slight increase of 5% YoY in its unit sales but its market share fell to 26%. Driven by its new models, Samsung saw a robust growth of 33% YoY to maintain its share of 7%.
- Among other brands, Skullcandy and boAt showed noticeable growth, as they became key players in major regions like North America, Europe and India.
TWS Market Share by Region:
- All regions except North America showed YoY growth in 2021. Asia-Pacific (excluding China) had the biggest share, surpassing North America for the first time.
- Despite the COVID-19 pandemic impact throughout the year, most regions grew driven by new products with more features at affordable prices.
- In particular, smartphone OEMs continued to focus on TWS products to expand their smart ecosystem, resulting in increased competition and sales in the market.
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Published Date: March 2022
Overview:
Samsung took the lead in 2021 with a strong DRAM and NAND flash market performance at the expense of Intel’s relatively flattish results. Major smartphone SoC and GPU vendors also enjoyed strong growth in the year with over 50% YoY revenue increase. In addition, we saw 27% YoY revenue growth among the top 15 vendors, outperforming global semiconductor revenue growth and implying another year of centralized semiconductor industry.
Table of Contents:
- Semiconductor Top 7 by revenues, Q4 2021
- Foundry Industry Share by revenues, Q4 2021
- Smartphone AP Market Share by shipments, Q4 2021
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Published Date: March 2022
Overview:
Smartwatch Market Share By Brand, 2021 vs 2020
- The global smartwatch market reached 127.5M units in 2021, with shipments of 42.4M in the fourth quarter.
- While Apple's Watch 7 series launch had been delayed to the fourth quarter, Samsung has boosted their market position in 2021 with the successful launch of the Galaxy Watch 4 series.
- Similar to its decline in the smartphone market, Huawei showed weaker performance in the smartwatch market compared to 2020. But it still ranked 3rd in the global market.
Smartwatch Market Share By OS, 2021
- Smartwatch operating systems: proprietary OS or RTOS still dominates. These lack the ability to install third-party apps.
- With the popularity of the Apple Watch, Watch OS holds almost a third of the market.
- The biggest change in 2021 in terms of smartwatch OS is Samsung's move from Tizen to Wear OS. As a result, Google's Wear OS has increased its share from 3% in 2020 to 10% in 2021.
Smartwatch Market Proportion By Region, 2021
- The smartwatch market still has room to grow and shipments are yet centered around advanced markets such as North America and Europe.
- China is the largest market for kids’ smartwatches, and this has helped it rank second in regional markets just behind North America in 2021.
- The Indian smartwatch market was similar in size to MEA or LATAM in 2020, but recorded explosive growth of four times in 2021, achieving share of close to 10%.
Table of Contents:
- Smartwatch Market Share By Brand, 2021 vs 2020
- Smartwatch Market Share By OS, 2021
- Smartwatch Market Proportion By Region, 2021
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Published Date: March 2022
Overview:
Our Q4 2021 Market Monitor report has been published. We release one infographic each quarter to summarize the smartphone market activities in a single page.
Some quick observations on the smartphone market:
- The global smartphone market grew 9% QoQ but declined 6% YoY in Q4 2021, clocking shipments of 371 million units, down from 396 million in Q4 2020.
- Apple surpassed Samsung to become the top smartphone vendor in Q4 2021, shipping 81.5 million units.
- Xiaomi shipped 45 million units in Q4 2021, up 5% YoY. It grew marginally despite facing severe component shortages.
- Samsung shipped 69 million units in Q4 2021, up 10% from Q4 2020, mainly due to increased demand for its smartphones from mid-tier A and M series.
- vivo declined 12% YoY to 29.3 million units in Q4 2021 with its market share reaching 8%. Notably, vivo lost the number one spot to Apple in China in Q4 2021.
Table of Contents:
- Global Smartphone Shipments Market Share
- Regional Smartphone Market Share
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Published Date: March 2022
Overview:
- Intel and Broadcom are two companies reported QoQ revenue decline in top 7
- SK Hynix and Micron reported over 30% YoY in Q3 2021 (SK Hynix 48%, Micron 36%)
TSMC maintains its market share leadership with strong sales growth in Q3 2021 driven by HPC and smartphone clients. Samsung also delivers strong Q3 from major clients. UMC is benefited from wafer price increases.
MediaTek maintained its market leadership in units during Q3 2021. Qualcomm, on the other hand, improved slightly on its shipment with better component supply. The major market share shifts during the quarter, were from UniSOC's strong penetration of 4G SoC market, and Samsung's further decline of shares suffering from IC shortage in its own brand and more outsourcing orders of 4G SoC.
Table of Contents:
- Semiconductor Top 7 by revenues, Q3 2021
- Foundry Industry Share by revenues, Q3 2021
- Smartphone AP Market Share by shipments, Q3 2021
Number of Pages: 1
Published Date: December 2021
