5G Silicon Markets and Vendor Shares


Actionable Benefits
- Understand market sizing and vendor shares for modems and application processors in the smartphones sector.
- Keep pace with the changing landscape of the devices industry under current challenging conditions, notably as the market moves to 5G, reflected in datasets and 5G segmentation.
- Identify and better target key 5G silicon market players to help form critical partnership agreements with vendors and associated component suppliers.

Research Highlights
- Historical quarterly shipments of smartphones by key modem and application processor vendors, split by 3G/4G and 5G.
- Historical quarterly shipments of smartphones by integrated Modem/Application Processor (ModAp) by vendor.
- Historical quarterly shipments of smartphones by separated modem by vendor.
- Historical quarterly shipments of smartphones by separated application processor by vendor.
- Data and forecasts for Radio Frequency (RF) components by type in smartphones by Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) technology.
- Data and forecasts for RF components by type in smartphones by technology groups and Average Revenue per Unit (ARPU).

Critical Questions Answered
- What are the lasting impacts of COVID-19, supply chain shortages, the geopolitical situation, and macroeconomic headwinds on market shares and sizing trends within the mobile devices industry?
- How is 5G being deployed and what mobile device types are quickly embracing 5G?
- Which companies are leading the sector and who is driving growth in the market?

Who Should Read This?
- Decision makers within device companies looking to understand current market developments.
- Technology solution providers and component vendors that need to understand the growth of devices and related technologies.
- Sales and marketing leaders within device vendors and component companies looking to understand market sizing, growth patterns, and vendor shares.
- Innovation leaders for mobile operators who need to understand how and where 5G will evolve.
Pivot Table Dataset
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Smartphone Chipset Shipments by Vendor
6 Columns | 2160 Rows (12960 data points)
Technology: Application Processor separate, Integrated Modem/Application Processor, Modem separate
Sub-Technology: 2G/3G/4G, 5G
Company: Apple, Hisilicon, Intel, Marvell, MediaTek, Others, Qualcomm, Samsung, Spreadtrum/Unisoc
Period: 1Q 2015, 1Q 2016, 1Q 2017, 1Q 2018, 1Q 2019, 1Q 2020, 1Q 2021, 1Q 2022, 1Q 2023, 1Q 2024, 2Q 2015, 2Q 2016, 2Q 2017, 2Q 2018, 2Q 2019, 2Q 2020, 2Q 2021, 2Q 2022, 2Q 2023, 2Q 2024, 3Q 2015, 3Q 2016, 3Q 2017, 3Q 2018, 3Q 2019, 3Q 2020, 3Q 2021, 3Q 2022, 3Q 2023, 3Q 2024, 4Q 2015, 4Q 2016, 4Q 2017, 4Q 2018, 4Q 2019, 4Q 2020, 4Q 2021, 4Q 2022, 4Q 2023, 4Q 2024
Years: 2015 - 2024 -
Smartphone Chipset Shipments by Component
4 Columns | 640 Rows (2560 data points)
Technology: Antenna Diversity Switch, Antenna Switch, Antenna Tuners, Antennas, Envelope Tracker, Filters, Power Amplifiers, RF Transceiver
Sub-Technology: 2G/3G/4G, 4G+Adv, 4G+Adv-Pro, 5G Sub-6 GHz, 5G Sub-6 GHz+mmWave
Years: 2015 - 2030
Version History
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5G Silicon Markets and Vendor Shares
Market Data | 2Q 2025 | MD-SMVS-107
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5G Silicon Markets and Vendor Shares
Market Data | 1Q 2025 | MD-SMVS-106
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5G Silicon Markets and Vendor Shares
Market Data | 2Q 2024 | MD-SMVS-105
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5G Silicon Markets and Vendor Shares
Market Data | 1Q 2024 | MD-SMVS-104
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5G Silicon Markets and Vendor Shares
Market Data | 4Q 2023 | MD-SMVS-103
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5G Silicon Markets and Vendor Shares
Market Data | 3Q 2023 | MD-SMVS-102
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5G Silicon Markets and Vendor Shares
Market Data | 2Q 2023 | MD-SMVS-101
Tables
- Smartphone Integrated Modem-AP Shipments and Market Share by Vendor*, World Markets: 2015 to 4Q 2024
- Smartphone Standalone Modem Shipments and Market Share by Vendor*, World Markets: 2015 to 4Q 2024
- Smartphone Standalone AP Shipments and Market Share by Vendor*, World Markets: 2015 to 4Q 2024
- RF Components by Smartphone WWAN Technology, World Markets: 2015 to 2030
- RF Components by 2G/3G/4G Smartphone Technology & Average per Unit, World Markets: 2015 to 2030
- RF Components by 4G+ Smartphone Technology & Average per Unit, World Markets: 2015 to 2030
- RF Components by 5G Smartphone Technology & Average per Unit, World Markets: 2015 to 2030
- RF End-to-End Solution by Smartphone Technology, World Markets: 2015 to 2030
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