In 3 g era, mediatek has been leading the development of technology, until eight cores because qualcomm independent architecture development couldn't keep up with progress and are forced to adopt the ARM version of the core development Xiao dragon 810, but the chip are fever, caused it to last year's high-end chip Xiao dragon 8 xx series shipments fell sixty percent.

Mediatek developed further last year over ten nuclear and triple architecture technology leading the development of nuclear technology, now in development helioX30 ten nuclear is fourfold architecture, however, is also to reduce the power consumption by means of multiple architecture.

Mediatek in multi-core technology advantage, no doubt, the general principles of the high at the end of high-end chip Xiao dragon 820 return to architecture, only four core, and has been leading the market development of apple is merely a dual core, the industry also gradually recognize the significance of multi-core for mobile phone is not big, mediatek is obviously unfavorable for that.

Actually for a mobile phone chips, besides processor cores, thanks to the development of wireless communication technology requirements of baseband technology have been enhanced, due to the game and the importance of VR application needs the GPU in ascension, integrated performance is becoming more important, a mobile phone to get excellent experience and not just for the comprehensive performance of need is a chip processor.

These aspects of mediatek technology is relatively backward. Enterprises in the current mobile phone chips, mediatek baseband technology behind qualcomm, samsung, huawei haisi, even spreadtrum, before 3 has introduced support LTECat12 / Cat13 baseband, which has been selling support LTECat7 technology baseband, mediatek only so far the highest support LTECat6 technologies, China mobile will require phone companies support LTECat7 technology, mediatek, of course, is unfavorable for that.

On GPU, qualcomm technology most, it owns AdrenoGPU performance in the industry first, even more than apple, samsung, with advantages of semiconductor fabrication technology and chip design technology with huawei haisi and mediatek are using universal GPU but can stack more core so its high-end chip Exynos8890 GPU performance close to qualcomm Xiao dragon 820, but is far more powerful than huawei haisi and mediatek.

As the domestic mobile phone to realize hardware performance problem of excess, the domestic mobile phone in the high-end mobile is more inclined to adopt qualcomm chip such as 65 x Xiao dragon chip in the end, even if such chip integrated performance also is in some ways than mediatek helioX20 high-end chip.

Unique advantages of multi-core competitive flameout, mediatek can't play, and other aspects of the technology lags far behind qualcomm, cause it is difficult to enter high-end market, competition at a disadvantage position.

Of course this is not good on qualcomm, because the domestic handset demand for high-end chip not strongly prefer a mid-range chip, also led to a price war, it was forced to join chip to reduce chip prices.