MediaTek leads global market among smartphone chipmakers with 31% share in Q3 2020: Report With the smartphone market making a strong comeback in sales during the third quarter of 2020, MediaTek has become the leading smartphone chipset vendor for the quarter for the first time in its history. Qualcomm fell to second place this time, however it maintained its market share lead for 5G chipsets. MediaTek’s growth can be attributed to the strong demand in the sub- 15K smartphone segment in both India and China. MediaTek’s market share grew to 31%, which is the highest ever for the company. Qualcomm came in second place with 29% market share and HiSilicon, Apple and Samsung had 12% market share each.