Do you know which country actually manufactures the most expensive and modern parts of mobile phone?
Updated: Feb 17
क्या आप जानते है की असलियत में कौन सा देश मोबाइल के सबसे महंगे अवं आधुनिक पुर्जे बनता है?
Mobile phone contains numbers of electronics parts varies is size & cost. These parts are manufactured by large numbers of companies but few companies hold supremacy in technology for manufacturing most costly parts.
Following three parts are most expensive parts of the today’s smartphones and we will see what are the companies and their respective country that manufactures these parts.
Application Processor
NAND Flash
Display
Application Processor
Well known and most famous mobile processor is Qualcomm Snapdragon variants which is an American company.
This processor is used in most smartphones including Chinese mobiles like Xiaomi Readmi Mi, Oppo, Vivo.
Major company manufactures mobile processors are
Qualcomm (America)
TI (America)
Samsung (Korea)
Nvidia (America)
Out of four main company, three are from America and one from South Korea.
NAND Flash
Before few years, Processor was most costly part of mobile phone, but with increase in demand of flash memory, NAND flash becomes most expensive part considering capacity of 16GB and higher.
Major company manufactures mobile processors are
Samsung (South Korea)
Toshiba (Japan)
SanDisk (Western Digital, America)
Micron (America)
Here Samsung holds major share for mobile NAND flash which is more than 30% whereas Toshiba shares approx 25%, Sandisk 20% and Micron around 10%.
So for NAND flash, South Korea is leading the game where Japan is also not too far.
Display
Following company are known for manufacturing display for mobile phones
Samsung (Korea)
Japan Display (Japan)
LG Display (South Korea)
Sharp (Osaka, Japan, Since 2016 it has been majority owned by the Taiwan-based Foxconn Group)
ChiMei (China)
Major share of mobile display is covered by Samsung, LG and Japan display.
Other parts that shares higher portion of cost are
DRAM
Baseband
Camera module
Touch Screen
Battery
DRAM
Manufactured by
Samsung (Korea)
Hynix (Korea)
Elpida (Japan)
Micron (America)
Baseband:
A baseband processor is a device in a network interface that manages all the radio functions.
Qualcomm (America)
MediaTek (Taiwan)
Intel Corporation (America)
ST-Ericsson (Switzerland, Europe)
Broadcom Corporation (America)
Marvell Technology Group (Santa Clara, California, US)
Camera module
With increase in mobile technology like front camera, dual camera and high resolution demand, cost sharing by camera module is increased. Major companies hold mobile camera market are
Sharp: (Japan & Taiwan)
Foxconn (Tiwan)
LG Innotek (South Korea)
STM (Switzerland, Europe)
Touch Screen (Panel)
Following companies provides touch screen technology to most of the mobile phones including Apple’s iPhone.
TPK (Taiwan)
Young Fast (Taiwan)
Wintek (Taiwan – which makes touch screens for Apple’s iPhone)
Nissha (Japan)
Battery:
Following two companies supplies major demand of li-ion battery for mobiles.
Simplo (Taiwan)
Dynapack (Taiwan)
Conclusion:
Country like Korea, America and Taiwan hold major portion of Mobile Part Manufacturing. Whereas country like china assembles the mobiles due to cheap labour cost.
Vision of #aatmanirbhar Bharat may become enrich even if we assemble the mobile phones by importing major parts from America, Korea and Taiwan.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/
Company website links
http://www.lginnotek.co.kr/en/
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