ABI: By 2019, 67% of smartphones will be based on chipset vendors' reference designs

Last year, chipset vendors like Qualcomm and MediaTek were able to get low-cost smartphone producers to use their reference designs on more than 33% of shipped smartphones. 69% of those handsets were priced at under $200 USD in countries like China and India. According to ABI Research, that percentage is going higher. The researcher sees 67% of smartphones shipped in 2019, to be based on the reference designs of silicon slingers.



To get to that level, some big name manufacturers will have to get on board, and that is exactly what ABI Research sees. Tier One producers, who in the past wanted ...