As we have seen, 5G technology is growing, and companies are start planning to bring this technology on budget smartphones. Indeed, MediaTek is one of the chip suppliers that most of us see on flagship smartphones and budget smartphone and in terms of 5G technology, the company has already shown its expectations First of all, it is expected to supply around 200 million 5G smartphones in the market by 2020.
In the meantime, the same company has also revealed that the supply of 5G chips on its 200 million smartphones is likely to be affected by the virus's spread Corona also said that it could drop from 200 million units to between 170 million and 200 million units, meaning 200 million units This is the highest number MediaTek has expected so far, not the average. Not only that, the company also expects that this year, China will ship 100 to 120 million smartphones worldwide, with 60% of the global market share also, this is a total smartphone of all company. MediaTek has two chips that come with the 5G in the same lineup, the Dimensity 800 Series for the flagship and the Dimensity 1000 Series for the top-end smartphones.
In the meantime, MediaTek has again expected the number of 5G chipsets that will use its chips for the year 2020, in fact previously expected to average 200 million units this time the company said it may drop between 170 million and 200 million units. The drop is due to the effects of a new virus that is hitting China hard It is the only Corona virus that could have caused some 5G smartphone projects to be canceled.