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At this point, you might as well count Apple out. They are no longer relevant ...
MediaTek cracks top 5 in smartphone apps CPU sales
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Qualcomm Inc. continued to lead the smartphone applications processor market in the first quarter, though its total market share slipped to 44 percent from 51 percent in the year-ago quarter, according to a report by the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service. The firm attributed Qualcomm's share loss to an expanding market size and intense competition from Broadcom Corp. and MediaTek Inc.
"Strategy Analytics believes Broadcom and MediaTek are emerging as credible threats to Qualcomm with their baseband-integrated applications processor strategy," said Sravan Kundojjala, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, in a statement.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Texas Instruments Inc., Broadcom and MediaTek rounded out the top five among smartphone applications processor vendors in the first quarter, according to Strategy Analytics (Boston). MediaTek (Hsinchu, Taiwan) cracked the top five smartphone applications processor vendor list for the first time on the strength of its momentum in the sub-$200 smartphone segment in China and other emerging markets, according to Strategy Analytics.
MediaTek displaced Marvell Technology Group Ltd. in the top five in the first quarter. Marvell dropped out of top five as a result of weakening position of its primary customer, Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM), according to Strategy Analytics. Marvell's strong TD-SCDMA smartphone applications processor shipments at China Mobile were not sufficient to offset its declining shipments at RIM, the firm said.
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1. Apple
2. Samsung
3. Qualcomm
5. Mediatek ( Are we considering all those almost obsolete ARM11 chips as App processors?)
@eewiz- I've just added to the story a chart provided by Strategy Analytics that shows the top three smartphone processor vendors and their market share. As you can see, it's Qualcomm, Samsung, TI. #4 and #5, not shown, are Broadcom and Apple.
You mention Apple. I have an email into Strategy Analytics to find out if they count Apple's iPhone CPUs as Samsung products or Apple products. Either way, iPhone is an incredibly popular and profitable product, but accounts for only about 13 percent of smartphone market share.
@eewiz: Top-five smartphone apps processor vendor list based on Strategy Analytics data.
1. Qualcomm
2. Samsung
3. Broadcom
5. MediaTek
Source: Strategy Analytics Quarterly Smartphone Apps Processor Market Share Tracker
We allocate Apple's shipments to Samsung in our model. If we were to separate Apple's shipments from Samsung, Apple would rank number two and Samsung would rank number three in the smartphone apps processor market.
MediaTek's smartphone chips (MT657x) gained strong traction in Q1 2012.
Sravan Kundojjala,
Senior Analyst, Strategy Analytics.
I am a bit confused by this. The order in this thread seems to be different from the original article. Is TI number 3? If not, are the the $ numbers correct in the original article? Thanks.
At this point, you might as well count Apple out. They are no longer relevant or provide any competition or innovation.
Where is Nvidia? Too busy complaining at TSMC to get any useful work done it seems.
@abraxalito: Based on Strategy Analytics estimates, NVIDIA ranked number seven in the smartphone apps processor market in Q1 2012. The company currently has only 2 percent revenue share in the smartphone apps processor market.
However, NVIDIA continues to do well in the tablet apps processor market and ranked number two in the non-iPad tablet processor market in Q1 2012.
Sravan Kundojjala,
Senior Analyst, Strategy Analytics.
Its the mobile application processor discussion. Intel and AMD doesn't have any such kind of products.
@Helicopter: Intel has started shipping its 32 nm-based Medfield product and had less than 1 percent share in Q1 2012. AMD currently has no share smartphones.
Sravan Kundojjala,
Senior Analyst, Strategy Analytics.
Thanks, Looks like this is a billion unit market. are there entry barriers ?
Do you see the Goliath to take over anytime soon?
Yes, the entry barrier is very low in the ARM-based chip ecosystem. All the technology pieces (CPU, GPU, DSP etc.) are available on license and the smartphone chip market is over-crowded.
However, capabilities such as software expertise, integration, strong OEM relationships, financial strength/ resources and product roadmap will set the best companies apart.
It's a growing market and I expect very interesting market dynamics ahead.
Sravan Kundojjala,
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Dear Sravan,
Excellent data and additional comments - thank you.
Wouldn't data in units instead of revenues also be (more?) useful for market shares - ASPs in different segments of smartphones are quite different
@sranje: Thanks. Yes, we do track units, revenues and ASPs on a quarterly basis for 13 smartphone chip companies across stand-alone and integrated processor categories. The rankings are slightly different (but not much) in terms of unit shipments.
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Samsung is in a strong position vis-a-vis the mobile App processors since they got into Apple and because of their surge in smart phone shipments. Qualcomm relies on other OEMs sales, it will be interesting how it would turn out if Apple change their App processor vendor.
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It's going to be a few months before my temp control build is complete, but I think it should work pretty well. I'll put up pics when it's done.
That's an awesome looking controller. Have at the banana bread idea if you like... you'll probably get to it before I will since my IPA hasn't been made yet and these days I'm doing about a brew a month. As far as IPAs go, I'm finding that my current taste is to go easy on the crystal malt (too much residual sweetness for me), blend pale malt with brewers malt 50/50 for the base, add a little biscuit for the breadiness, and hit alcohol by supplementing with dextrose. My grain bill for the citrus IPA will look something like this: 6.5 lbs 2-row 6.5 lbs ESB malt 1 lb biscuit 0.5 lb crystal 20 2 lb dextrose |
Looks like a ripper there HPG. I'm bottling up my Irish Red tonight. It aint red tho..... Its more like an Irish brown. Also, there aren't any Irish ingredients, so I guess its just a brown ale. haha As long as its good, I dont care.
My last beer is just about gone. It was only ready a couple weeks ago. I only have 10 out of 30 left! hahahaha It really was my best beer so far. Just a pleasure to drink. On Saturday, I will be brewing up another IPA. Can't wait! Love brew day. http://hopville.com/recipe/1671644 My LHBS was out of Motueka, so I subbed in Nelson Sauvin. I wish it was ready now.
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This Saturday is brew day for me too! Fresh Squeezed Citrus IPA takes its first steps. I still have a hard time making it 6 weeks from boil to taste... but the beer really does improve with 3 weeks in the bottle before you start drinking.
Nelson Sauvin is one hell of a hop - use it carefully! It's fun to get those flavours into beer, no doubt. T-1 to brew day! |
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Buddy who brews with me and I went through the entire suite of brews we've made together - 6 of them in all. We only bottle in 1 litre bottles (we're lazy) so this means we each had roughly 9 beer over the course of the brew. Given these headwinds, we were shockingly successful in our efforts. Bottled up the Mirror Pond clone. It had a strange finish to it - much more bitter (almost astringent) than I was expecting. I wonder if that's the result of sparging too hot? Either way it should settle in the bottle and be a solid brew. Fresh Squeeze Citrus IPA went well. Grain bill was as planned earlier, supplemented with 2 lbs of dextrose to get the alcohol in the final beer up. The boil was pretty uneventful, but damn this was the first time I'd used hop pellets in the boil and you lose so much more wort to the crap they leave in the bottom of the kettle. I love 'em for dry hopping but it was definitely a drag in the boil. Tasted the wort - it's going to be an awesome beer. It'll easily sit in the 100+ IBU range, and is just bursting with citrusy flavours. Gravity came through at 1.070, which was shockingly low and really lends me to think my hydrometer just reads low. I mean, 16 pounds of grain and another 2 pounds of dextrose should have had me in the 1.085 range. Either my mash and sparge were super inefficient (like 55-60%), which seems pretty unlikely, or my hydrometer is bunk. My beers have been reading really dry at the end and not necessarily tasting that way, so I'm left thinking it's gotta be the meter. Using Wyeast 1272 for this batch. When fermented on the colder side (~16ish), it imparts -- you guessed it! -- citrus flavours. Awesome. The dry hops will go in about a week from now: 2 oz amarillo, 1 oz summit, 1 oz sorachi ace. Gonna be an awesome brew. |
Sounds like you were building a bomber there FHG! I have never used anything but hop pellets. I wish I had an option, but my LHBS doesn't carry many varieties of whole hops. I always compensate for the wort I know I will lose. Its probably about 2-3 liters for me every time.
How does hydrometer read plain water? If its not zero, there likely is something wrong with it. My brew day was a good one too. There are two things that I want to improve on though. How long it takes to get a boil and how long it takes to cool the wort. Both are taking me way too long. I get a wussy boil going and I cant boil more than 12ish litres. If you were to invest some money would it be on a 30L pot and a burner or would you spend it on an immersion chiller?
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I've been too lazy with my hydrometer... and just because it reads zero at zero doesn't mean it's right, either. True test would be to do two known solutions like a 1.000 and a 1.090 or something like that. If I were to upgrade my gear, I'd get a big pot and a burner. You'll get better utilization out of your hops since you won't have to dilute the wort coming out of the primary. In place of a chiller, you can just be a little short on your liquid level and add a block of ice. Seriously, it works wonderfully in a pinch. |
I've used a block of boiled water to cool the wort before. It did work well. I forgot to freeze some water this time. Didn't think of it until the morning of brew day, which is too late. I'll do it again the next time before buying a chiller.
I'll start looking around for a good burner and a 30L pot. I think that is the way to go. I can move to a full boil instead of using so much top up water.
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Hello lads, I asked the guy at the LHBS if I could use glucose syrup to dry out my beer a little bit. He said that I could do that or I could use a packet of dry enzyme. In my ultimate wisdom, I did both.
I checked my gravity last night, on my 1.063 OG beer, after it had been fermenting for 14 days and it read 1.002! I tasted the sample and it actually wasn't that bad. Thing is... its still going. I'm still getting bubbles out of the airlock after 14 days. Its the first beer I've had that went for that long. So my question is... can I use maltodextrin to beef it back up a bit? If I do, how should it be used? What quantity and how do I get it into the beer? Thanks for any advice.
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Well the last beer turned out ok. Didn't use maltodextrin. I think it would have been converted and fermented anyway.
Had a brew day yesterday. Tried a no chill technique. I did a 30 minute rest and added about 3.5 ozs of hops after flameout. After adding the top off water, the temp was 39. It took 6 hours outside to get it to 24. I pitched the yeast and left it outside overnight. It was bubbling and at 22 this morning. Perfect! In case yer wondering, you guys know I'm an addict... It's an IPA of course. 350 grams of hops... 27 litres.
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My last batch didn't carb up properly. Even tho it's only been 9 days, I'm worried that the next one is gonna be flat too. Tried one last night. Flatter than the Ferguson girl.
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Checked in around noon on Friday, 1/6. Walked up to first open line, and gave the $20 and said "this is for you, any chance you can upgrade me to a Tower Deluxe?" He looked for a few minutes, and said "no problem". My room was great. Private elevators and an awesome view of the Strip.
Our clerk saw the 20 dollar note and putted it directly back in front of the desk before we could say anything and said: "I'm sorry but i can't do anything for you but you already have a high floor Deluxe room with strip view" She was not a very nice person at all. Sometimes there is no luck :(
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We arrived at the Mirage about 10am. There were lines, but not terribly long ones. We tried checking in at that time, did the sandwich trick, and asked very politely "we were wondering if you could check and see if there are any complimentary room upgrades available?" She was a very nice younger lady, and she said she would be very happy to do that for us. She explained the rooms were full now, but gave us a card to redeem at the express check in line in "2 or 3 hours." We were thrilled. I mentioned it was my birthday, after the fact, and they threw in free champagne. We booked a standard room, and ended up with a tower deluxe room, overlooking the strip and the volcano. We were on the top floor, 30th, with private elevators, and a jet tub with his and her sinks, and a flat screen TV. Best 20 dollars spent in Vegas!!
Our flight landed at 9:30 am. We tried to check in right away but were told to wait until 11:00. After reading the tips posted here we put a $20.00 between the credit card and the drivers license presented at check in and asked if there were any complimentary upgrades? I have no idea when she actually took the $20 but it casually disappeared and we were given a top floor corner room suite overlooking the volcano! Hot tub and all! We also told the attendant checking us in that it was our 20 year anniversary (which was the truth) and we returned to our room later that evening to a bottle of champagne on ice! Amazing. I was skeptical and didn't think it would work. I was wrong. It can't hurt to try!
We got to Mirage early and checked bags. Around 11:30 we got in line, gave the young lady the 20 dollar sandwich. She spent 15 minutes securing us the double queen suite room on D, and we were good to go. It was Sunday, and we asked her what she could to to upgrade us.
My husband and I arrived at the Mirage about 6pm on a Sunday. It was our first time in Vegas and we were their on our honeymoon so I decided to see if the tip trick worked. When it was our turn to check in I handed the girl $20 sandwiched between my id and credit card and explained that we were there on our honeymoon and were their any complimentary upgrades available. She said that she could upgrade us to a Tower Room which is on the 25th floor. The 24th and 25th floors have their own elevators which is nice.
We are a family of four. I had booked a 4 star hotel through Hotwire, which turned out to be Mirage. I was positive that I would be given a low room overlooking the casino/lobby roof. So I drove in a bit early at around 1:30 p.m. Since I had a got a sweet deal on Hotwire, I was willing to pay a bit extra. I waited for a early 20'ish female who seemed a bit cheerful when compared to the rest of them. When asked for my card and ID, I gave her the sandwich and ensured that she could see both the $20 Bills. I told her it was our anniversary and if we could get a complimentary upgrade. She said sure, put the 40 in her pocket right away. THE RESULT: She was willing to give a Jacuizzi king bed suite. But since I needed 2 queen beds, she gave me a tower suite on 27'th floor. The room was nice, wonderful strip view, spa jet tub, free internet and freee passes to the habitat :) Overall I was quite happy with the deal!
Checked in around 3PM on Thanksgiving Day - asked the middle aged male clerk if any complimentary upgrades to a Tower Deluxe Room were available - he took my $20 and said it shouldn't be a problem, and it wasn't!
It was about 3pm on a Saturday, not a long line at all, all clerks were female. Put the $20 between my CC & license, asked if there were any complementary upgrades. She said yes, she could upgrade us to a tower suite, but we needed 2 beds, so we had to settle for a standard room with a view. Next time I'll make sure we only need 1 bed to get the most band for our buck.
I got to the Morage at about 2:00 pm on a SUnday. Most all the clerks were young women and there was almost no wait. Walked up to first open clerk, smiled, and was friendly to her. Gave her a twenty with my ID and credit card and asked if she had and complimentary upgrades available. She said she would see what she could do. She gave us a tower deluxe room with a strip view. I had booked a regular room with a strip view. I think the pool view is actually the best view though after staying there now. The tower deluxe room has a bigger bathroom and keyed elevators that go straight to the 24th and 25 floors which is really nice. When we got back to our room after our first evening there was chilled sparkling wine on ice waiting for us too. Overall it was well worth a twenty.
Checked in around 11am and selected the first available clerk (there was no line). Handed the $20 sandwiched for each room booked (we had a total of 3 room). Asked if it was possible to get a tower deluxe room, possibly facing the pool (best views). She said that it shouldn't be a problem but had to come back in about 3 hours as the rooms were no ready. That was fine by me! Ended up getting the rooms on the 25th floor. 1 facing the volcano and 2 facing the pool, all with amazing strip views. This was the second time doing this at the Mirage and it worked last time as well.
We arrived around 11am and checked in with the only clerk available. It was a young women who was in her 20s and I handed her my ID, credit card, and $20 bill and asked if there were any availabe upgrades. She took the 20 placed it next to the keyboard said she would check, made a call and upgraded us to the 24 th floor. I told he we were celebrating our anniversary and she had a bottle of champaign delivered to our room. The room had a nice view of the pool and a view of the strip. Well worth the 20.
The check in lines were failry long - so we jsut picked the shortest - all teh clerks were female. I put my $20 in my passprt with my credit card and passed her the info when she asked for id. I then asked if there were any rooms available as high up as we could get and with a strip view. She said we would have to wait until 3:00 to get into that room as it wasn't ready yet - we were okay with that since it was only 11:00.
Read about it on this site so we decided to try. Booked two rooms one for kids one for us. Five nights. Checked in at 2:00 pm on a Wednesday, Gave the clerk $40 dollars, $20 for each room. Told her we were meeting a couple of families for a get together and if they had a corner room with a little more space for gatherings that would be nice. She put money on counter in plain veiw. typed into computer a little then picked up phone and called manager. I didn't hear what she asked but I could hear him say "no we have none avalible" she said "but I have one on my screen" she hung up and finished. I figured we struck out.I asked if both rooms where up graded and she said "no the one room I upgraded is to nice" Turns out the room was on the top floor, HUGE one bedroom, with living room, dining room, Bar area, and over looking the volcano. AT CHECK OUT they tried to charge me $90 a night for the upgrade. I told the clerk I asked for "Complimentry upgrade" and was not going to pay. she called the manager and he said to look in the file for hard copy. She did and came back and said "I guess you are ok, I can't find anything that you signed for an upgraded room." Not sure what that was all about if it was a ploy or not but we sure where happy.
Arrived about 10 am and checked our bags out front and decided to try and check in anyway so we could go out and not have to worry about it later. Several guests were waiting in the check-out line so we went to the Invited Guests desk. I had been practicing in my mind for a week and had the "sandwich" ready. I smiled, presented the sandwich and explained it was our first time in Vegas for our 10th anniversary and asked if there was anything she could so to make it more memorable (both true...it is the trip for the anniversary...although is was a couple of months ago, I just couldn't take the time from work) She laid the $20 on the keyboard and in less than 30 seconds said "How is a Tower Deluxe room with a strip view?" I thanked her quite sincerely and she explained our room wouldn't be ready until about 1pm and they could give us a call when it was finished. Most excellent. The room was fantastic! We had to show our room keys to get to the elevator after a certain time of evening. The view was overlooking the atrium and volcano & strip. We went out to dinner and came back to change, my wife squealed - "Did you do this?!!" I was in the bathroom and had no idea how to answer because I couldn't see what she was talking about. Could it be a trap? I came back out to see champagne service and a small bit of fresh fruit waiting for our return. Wow! The room was very nice, quite classy for the average hotel room we're used to. The pillows don't match up to the hype I've read online, we both found them quite uncomfortable. Otherwise, we tried the maid-tip-toiletries-upgrade thing - off the bat I drew a cut little picture and put $5 on it for her. Nada. Tried it the second day, just in case. Nothing. Third day we put the Privacy Please sign on the door and saved our money. The sandwich worked perfectly! I would try it again without a doubt, It may or may not have been the $20 bill but it doesn't matter. I was a fantastic time and the room & champagne service were much more than we ever expected when we decided to take this little vacation.
We arrived at the hotel approx 9pm on the Friday night. There was no queue for the check in desk and not many people around. I approached a female clerk with a smile. When asked for ID I passed over the sandwich and mentioned that I had emailed ahead requesting a high level floor if possible. I asked if there were any high level rooms available and passed over the sandwich with the $20 clearly protruding. The clerk took the ID details and after some typing handed back the ID & CC including the $20. We were assigned a 11th floor room overlooking the reception roof (not the best of views at all and not even half way up the hotel). Safe to say that the sandwich trick didn't work. I friend of mine also tried and had no luck. As the clerk didn't even acknowlege the $20 I would hesitate to try this again. Aside from the tip not working, the hotel was superb and we will definately stay there again soon (hopefully). I would advise staying clear of the Deli though - it was expensive and not very nice.
We arrived at The Mirage about 8:00 pm on a Sunday night. There was almost no line for check in and before I could get the sandwich ready we were called to the next clerk, who was extremely nice. She asked for credit card and ID so I handed it over with a $20 bill folded in half on top of the 2 cards. I just asked if there were any comp upgrades available and she said she would check. She laid the $20 to the right of her terminal in plain view. After a minute of the obligatory typing and a quick phone call (which I think was staged to extend same drama, as I could barely hear what she was saying to the party on the other end of the phone despite the fact she was 5 feet away from me) she informed us that we had been upgraded to a Tower Deluxe Room on the 25th floor with a Volcano view with Wynn/Encore and The Venetian right across the way. Great room, great bathroom and great hotel. Will stay again at The Mirage!!
My wife and I walked in with another couple and the other couple immediately got in line to check in. My wife and I kind of stood back so that we could see who we might want to approach. A gentleman came up to us and stated that there were more check in lines further down that had no lines. I choose the youngest female and checked in. This clery was very personable and it worked like a charm. I gave her my ID and CC with the $20 between and asked for any upgrades. I went to explain that it was our 10th anniversary and our first trip to Vegas. She immediately pocketed the money and gave us a room on the 24th floor. She also provided us with Champaign that night and free drinks and admission to a few different night clubs. Best $20 I ever spent and plan to do it again my nex trip.
I booked this hotel through an offer I got from them via email for $45/night. The internet rate was $129/night, so this was a great deal. I decided to do a $50 tip sandwich since I was getting the room at such a great rate. The gal at check-in was very nice, and when she was the tip, instantly got on the phone and then was able to upgrade me to a Tower Deluxe room on the 25th floor overlooking the Strip (south view) and the awesome pools. Love the Mirage!
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