The $2.24bn Q3 2011 market for applications processors in smartphones represented a 59% increase on the Q3 2010 market, says Strategy Analytics.
Qualcomm dominates the market with almost 50% market share, followed by Samsung, TI, Marvell, Broadcom and Nvidia.
Qualcomm’s APQ range helped it to a 4.3% share of the stand-alone apps processor market and helped Qualcomm to address the LTE smartphone market as the company currently does not have an LTE-integrated Snapdragon processor yet. Qualcomm's LTE Snapdragon processors such as MSM8960 will debut in 2012.
No.2 was Samsung which had 70% of the stand-alone market.
No.3 was TI which grew its non-Nokia business 65% in Q3 2011 compared to Q3 2010.
No.4 was Marvell helped by its TD-SCDMA chip-set.
No5 was Broadcom on the back of its Android business.
No. 6 was Nvidia and No.7 was MediaTek.
Stand-alone applications processors out-grew baseband-integrated applications processors, accounting for 41% of total smartphone applications processor shipments in Q3 2011, up from 31% from Q3 2010.
This growth can be attributed to strong demand for dual-core processors and growth in LTE smartphone shipments.