Samsung Galaxy S21 series costs less than the Galaxy S20 lineup: Counterpoint
The Galaxy S21 series is the latest flagship offering from Samsung launched back in January. This is the premium range of smartphones that offer top-notch hardware as well as software including Exynos 2100/Snapdragon 888 processor, One UI 3.1 on the top of Android 11 OS, iconic camera capabilities, and much more.
However, the top-tier device of this series, Galaxy S21 Ultra costs 7% lesser than its predecessor, in terms of manufacturing. Now to prove this fact, a new analysis just surfaced on the Counterpoint research that claims, Samsung has an optimized cost structure with the devices falling between 400 to 600 US Dollars.
Moreover, the research also disclosed that Samsung’s ecosystem contributed as high as 63 percent of the total BoM (bill of materials) cost for the international edition of S21 devices. Therefore, the Korean tech giant also achieved some great sales numbers in markets such as Europe and North America.
Meanwhile, there are many reasons which lead to the cost-effectiveness of S21 phones but the one that is quite highlighting is the use of an in-house Exynos 2100 processor for some non-European markets including India.
Alongside, the integrated 5G modem in the main chipset also helps the company to follow this tradition, led to packing these handsets at a justified price with flagship goodies.
“In line with the price drops, Samsung managed to deftly balance the performance versus cost. It made a significant improvement in computing power with the 5nm process-based mobile platforms, either Snapdragon 888 or Exynos 2100 depending on the sales market, and also introduced a refreshed design for the rear camera bump” Research Analyst Parv Sharma said.
Record sales number of the Galaxy S21 smartphones
While the device cost lower to produce, S21 smartphones also saw great sales in markets such as India, the US, North America, and more. The series sales volume in February alone was 22 percent higher than the 2019 Galaxy S20 series, reaching over 3.4 million units in overall shipments.
Besides, some recent reports clearly mentioned that this episode of record-breaking sales will continue as usual. However, some new records are set to broken in the coming days when the Galaxy S22 arrives at the end of this year or maybe in January 2022.
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A new report reveals that Samsung will participate as an anchor investor for Arm’s upcoming IPO after taking a conservative approach to the matter due to a perceived overvaluation and regulatory risk.
Samsung opted to make an investment in the chip designer, joining a slew of other industry players including Apple, Nvidia and Intel. Amazon, which was earlier rumored to be participating in the IPO, decided to step out.
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It’s worth mentioning that the strategic investors have agreed to invest between $25 million and $100 million each. The specific amount for each company hasn’t been disclosed yet.
This means the offering price will come in between $47 and $51 per share. It makes Arm’s valuation between $50 billion and $55 billion, down from the initial estimation of $64 billion.
Arm’s IPO on Nasdaq, which is expected in September, is considered to be the biggest IPO deal of the year. The company controls a majority of the world’s application processor market, designing and licensing basic blueprints for chips.
Market research firm TrendForce published the latest report on their analysis. The agency disclosed that after global smartphone production dropped by nearly 20% year-on-year in the first quarter, production continued to decline by about 6.6% in the second quarter, to 270 million units.
In particular, the global smartphone production in the first half of 2023 was 520 million units, a 13.3% decline compared to the same period last year. Both individual quarters and the first half of the year in total set a ten-year low.
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TrendForce analysts pointed out that there are three reasons for the sluggish production performance:
- First, the lifting of epidemic prevention restrictions did not drive demand as expected;
- Secondly, the demographic dividend effect of the emerging Indian market has not effectively exerted its advantages;
- Thirdly, in 2022, brands will be deeply affected by excessive channel inventory. It was originally expected that as inventory is reduced, brands will return to production levels.
However, now affected by economic weakness, people’s consumption willingness is more conservative, resulting in poor production performance in the first half of the year. expected.
Second Quarter Market
In the second quarter, Samsung still topped the list, with Q2 output reaching 53.9 million units, a decrease of 12.4% from the previous quarter. The same period coincided with the replacement of old and new Apple models, with output of 42 million units, a decrease of 21.2% from the previous quarter.
Adding to this, the most obvious change in the smartphone market was Transsion (including TECNO, Infinix, and itel). Transsion surpassed vivo and entered fifth place in the world for the first time. Its output increased by more than 70% month-on-month to 25.1 million units.
Production
In addition to Samsung and Apple, Xiaomi (including Xiaomi, Redmi, and POCO) produced approximately 35 million units in the second quarter, an increase of 32.1% from the previous quarter.
OPPO (realme, and OnePlus included) produced about 33.6 million units in the second quarter, an increase of 25.4% from the previous quarter. Q3 is expected to have a growth rate of about 10-15%, closely following Xiaomi.
Samsung and SK Hynix are strengthening their foray into the GDDR (Graphic Double Data Rate (GDDR) market amid the global gaming surge. The companies appear to be preparing to lead the GDDR market while gaining technological advantage in next-generation products.
Recently, IGI (Industry Growth Insights) published its new report citing that the GDDR market will grow from $3.2 billion in 2018 to $4.8 billion in 2030 with an average annual growth rate of 7.6%. It’s predicted that high-performance GDDR like GDDR6 will record a double-digit growth rate every year.
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Samsung x GDDR
In July, Samsung Electronics developed GDDR7, the industry’s most advanced product, for the first time, and supplied samples to Nvidia for verification for next-generation system installation. SK Hynix also plans to complete GDDR7 development within this year.
On the other hand, Micron plans to introduce GDDR7 in the first half of next year, a step later. In this situation, Nvidia, the world’s largest customer in the GPU market, is known to preferentially review Samsung Electronics’ products instead of Micron’s next-generation products.