Huawei Kirin vanished from mobile chipset market: Report

Huawei Kirin chipset is one of the best smartphone processors but it has now vanished from the mobile application chipset market, reveals a new report.

According to the data compiled by Counterpoint Research, Huawei HiSilicon reached around 0 percent in the third quarter of this year. The latest records reveal that the chipset maker has been hugely affected by the U.S. restrictions.

Back in 2019, Huawei was added to the U.S. Entity List, which bans Huawei from purchasing goods and services made in the country. However, the U.S. administration later expanded the reach of this ban to the global market.

Then, Huawei was prohibited from printing HiSilicon Kirin chipsets from makers such as Taiwan’s TSMC and Samsung.

Huawei HiSilicon had a 1 percent market share in the smartphone application market in the first quarter of this year. The company then fell to 0.4 percent and the latest figure shows that Huawei Kirin has vanished.

Counterpoint Research said: “According to our inspection and sales data, Huawei has exhausted the inventory of HiSilicon chipsets (0.4% share in the second quarter). Due to the US ban, it is no longer possible for Huawei to Get new chipsets from foundries like TSMC, Samsung, etc.”

Other than Kirin, Huawei is now using Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset in its smartphone. However, Huawei is limited to using a 4G network due to the lack of RF chipsets.

Looking at the graph, MediaTek still ranks first and dropped to 35 percent. In second place comes Qualcomm with an increase of 31% in market share. Apple comes third, followed by UNISOC in fourth and Samsung in fifth.

(via – mydrivers)