Qualcomm, MediaTek ramping up orders at foundry homes, backend service companies
Cage Chao, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES
Qualcomm and MediaTek each are ramping up their orders at wafer foundry homes and IC backend service suppliers as they plan to roll out their respective next-generation 5G chips earlier than year-end 2020, in keeping with trade sources.
Respective order visibility from the world’s top-two 5G SoC suppliers has truly prolonged to the primary half of 2021 as they’re vying for orders from China’s handset manufacturers who’re anticipated to launch an array of 5G-enabled fashions earlier than the upcoming Lunar New Year holidays in mid-February 2021, stated the sources.
Non-Huawei Chinese distributors, together with Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, have been eager on inserting 5G resolution orders as they goal to ramp shipments to take over the market share more likely to be relinquished by Huawei within the wake of the US commerce sanctions, famous the sources.
