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US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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5G smartphone shipments grew 300% YoY in India, Samsung leads in Q1 2022

5G shipments grew 300 percent YoY, with overall smartphone shipments growing 1.6 percent YoY. Samsung led the 5G smartphone segment with 23 percent market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18 percent market share in India, a new report revealed on Wednesday.

According to Cyber Media Research (CMR)’s India Mobile Handset Market Review Report for Q1 2022, Xiaomi (24 percent), Samsung (19 percent) and Realme (15 percent) captured the top three spots in the smartphone leaderboard in Q1 2022 followed by Vivo (14 percent) and OPPO (8 percent). While affordable smartphone shipments (sub-INR 7000) declined, premium smartphones (>INR 25000) grew 58 percent YoY, indicating strong consumer appetite to switch and upgrade.

“5G smartphone shipments posted a robust growth in Q1 2022. The overall smartphone market has posted a considerable growth of 16 percent compared to the pre pandemic levels of Q1 2019. However, the smartphone industry continues to face major headwinds, including prevailing supply side dynamics, and resultant raw material shortages. While the initial two months of the quarter
remain muted, March bucked the trend, with growth picking-up,” Menka Kumari, Analyst-Industry Intelligence Group, CMR said in a statement.

Feature Phone Segment

In Q1 2022, the overall feature phone segment declined 43 percent YoY, driven by supply side constraints, increase in operator tariff plans as well as rising inflationary trends. The 2G feature phone and 4G feature phone segment declined by 42 percent and 50 percent YoY respectively.

Q1 2022: Key Smartphone Market Highlights

Xiaomi captured the top spot with 24 percent market share. Redmi 9A Sport and Note 11 were the most popular models. Xiaomi’s shipments declined by 13 percent YoY owing to tough competition. Its sub-brand Poco recorded a 52% YoY decline in its shipments in Q1 2022.

Samsung was placed second with 19 percent market share in the smartphone market overtaking Realme. Samsung topped the 5G smartphone leaderboard with its new 5G offerings including the Samsung F23, Samsung A23, amongst others. Samsung was NO 1 in 5G Value for money Price Band(7000-25000K).

Realme was placed third with 15 percent market share with its shipments growing 40 percent YoY, the most amongst the top five players. Realme C11(2021), Realme 9i and Realme C21Y were the top selling models and accounted for most of Realme’s market share.

Vivo garnered 15 percent market share along with its sub-brand iQOO. The vivo Y72 and vivo Y75 models accounted for the bulk of its 5G shipments.

OPPO was placed fifth with 8 percent market share. The OPPO A54 and A16 series were highest shipped models. OPPO captured 5 percent share in the overall 5G shipments

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