How many smartphones will be sold by the end of this year? The estimate has decreased due to a lack of chips

The latest forecast of sales of smartphones of the analytical company CounterPoint Reasearch not very pleasing to smartphone manufacturers. Compared to the original estimate, it will decrease in the first half of the year, mainly due to the lack of chips on the market.

The original estimated growth in smartphone sales decreased by 3 percent

Last year was the worst for decades for smartphone manufacturers due to the coronavirus pandemic. Compared to 2019, deliveries fell by 11% to 1.331 billion pieces. This year, according to CounterPoint Reasearch deliveries were to rise again by 6% to 1.414 billion units. However, the original estimate for this year was 1.447 billion pieces and a year-on-year increase of 9%.

The analytical company estimates lower deliveries in the second half of the year due to the lack of chips on the market. They are still suffering from a coronavirus pandemic that has stifled industry across all sectors. In the second quarter, most OEMs received only 80% of ordered components.

The lack of chips will least affect the American company Apple

In this third quarter, it was even only 70%, according to manufacturers. In addition to DDI and PMIC components, important application processors and camera sensors were missing for smartphones. Processor manufacturers such as Qualcomm and MediaTek are unable to fulfill orders from OEMs who depend on them.

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According to the director of the company CounterPoint Research Tom Kang’s lack of components will affect almost all major brands, including Samsung, Oppo a Xiaomi. This problem will least affect American society Apple. Its recently introduced Apple iPhone 13 smartphones should once again be the best-selling models on the market.