The background is different. Qualcomm belongs to the top company of this industry chain, and has the right to speak and patent rights on communication standards, such as CDMA2000, which is led by Qualcomm. Any equipment that supports cdma must be given to Qualcomm. Patent fees, whether you are Apple or Samsung, are enough to show Qualcomm’s position in this industry.
In terms of the history of mobile phone CPU manufacturing, Qualcomm also has a rich background. Many WM mobile phone CPUs in the previous WM era were from Qualcomm, while Android devices have mainly been Qualcomm CPUs from the beginning, including several G1 models that laid the foundation. G2, G3, the first nexus, and except for a handful of models, nexus is basically Qualcomm. Even if Huawei has HiSilicon, the only nexus6p manufactured by Huawei is Qualcomm. This can also be seen that at least it is working with Qualcomm. At the level of cooperation with Google, Qualcomm is stronger than other companies.
Let’s talk about MediaTek MTK. In the era of Nokia’s dominance, MTK relied on copycat phones for a living. MTK also contributed to the prosperity of Huaqiangbei. However, with the rise of Android phones, copycat phones began to decline. Huaqiangbei was almost empty. MTK faced a crisis and began to transform. The initial processors were also aimed at the low-end market.
The turnaround was probably in 2013. At that time, a large number of thousand-yuan phones using MT6589 appeared on the market. This processor created many firsts in the industry and allowed MediaTek to smoothly transform. However, the people are also good. Whether it's a business, it's easy to get carried away when things go too smoothly. The x10, or MT6795, is MTK's attempt to enter the high-end market. However, it was turned into a thousand-yuan machine by Lei Jun's Redmi Note2, and it later proved to have good performance. , but it is not enough to call itself a "flagship". Its overall performance is similar to Qualcomm's 808, and it also has "wifi gate". This also shows that MTK's attainments are still not enough.
X20, is more powerful, because there are also Snapdragon 650 and 652 machines at the same price range, but judging from the Redmi note4 and 360n4s, there is no doubt that mtk can give more concessions to manufacturers, because these two models support cdma ( That is, on the premise of paying Qualcomm's patent fees), it can still be sold so cheaply.
Although the x25 is known as the flagship, compared to the 820, even the 1.8 downclocked version of the 820 used in Xiaomi 5 is still far behind. The x25’s AnTuTu score is about 9.7w, and the 1.8’s 820 score is about 9.7w. About 10.7w, and the "full health" 820 running score is as high as 14w.