I’ve tried looking for 400 and 600 series Gen 1 and Gen 2 phones, and not a single phone exists in this market that uses them with the exception of a few Redmi Note series phones (they’re still not released, as far as I’m aware of)?

For some reason, the processors are all outdated by at least two years old. The latest chip I’ve seen are the 480+ and the 695. I’ve not seen anything newer in the 400 and 600 series.

In September 1, 2023 IST (that is tomorrow), Moto will be releasing their Moto G84 with Snapdragon 695, which is just ridiculous, given that this SoC two years older.

I am not really aware about the Dimensity processors, but I’m imagining that the same must be happening for those series probably.

Has something happened in the phone market that I’m not aware of? Is there still a chip shortage?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 years ago

    Obviously I am wayyy too late but here’s what I found.

    Sale of new mobile phones has dropped significantly in the last few quarters because of global price inflation of consumer goods. Naturally, mobile chip sales has also dropped.

    Since making a chip takes ~6 months, Qualcomm currently has too many old chips in their inventory because even if they completely stop making new chips, they’ll still produce chips for the next 6 months.

    Because of that existing inventory, they aren’t selling new chips to OEMs until their old stock is depleted. Which (I’m speculating) has led to OEMs buying chips from MediaTek instead. Which has farther delayed the production of new chips.

    Partial sources

    Nov 2022

    Feb 2023

    May 2023

    Aug 2023

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Hello, thank you for sharing this. The news in my country is no longer reliable, and that is why I’ve stopped reading articles and stick to video formats purely related to tech and not the marketing side of it. Perhaps I’ll keep in mind to use a good RSS-like aggregator to keep myself up-to date.