Application processor concentration increased in the second half of the year

The application processor market ecology has changed significantly in 2013. The medium and low-priced products have become mainstream in the market, and competition has become more stringent. Although there are still only a few players in high-end products, DIGITIMES Research believes that the company’s composition will With a considerable degree of change, the strong performance of NVIDIA in 2012 will have a significant decline. Samsung Electronics actively promotes its own processors and will obviously crowd out other chip suppliers.

In addition, new players in the high-end market, MediaTek tablet PCs and smart phones will be launched in the second half of the corresponding products, LG Electronics will learn Samsung to introduce its own architecture, Huawei's own processor in the past Although the promotion is not successful, the high-end new architecture products in the second half of the year are still worth observing. In addition, the most noteworthy are Intel and AMD. Although they adopt the x86 architecture, they have significantly increased their competitiveness after SoCization and improved power control. This has exerted considerable pressure on the ARM camp.

Looking at the ecosystem of the application processor market in the second half of 2013, the importance of the x86 architecture will increase to a considerable extent. In the ARM camp, the high-order will move towards the situation where Kraut, Qualcomm’s and the small- and large-scale nuclear architectures are contending with each other. Cortex-A7 multi-core products are the main products. The dual-core products will replace the single-core status in 2012 and become the mainstream structure of ultra-low-cost products ranging from 50 to 100 US dollars.