MediaTek has been making its presence felt over the last two years, with the company’s chips finding their way to more and more smartphones. Starting off as a company that made chips for low end Chinese brands, MediaTek has expanded to larger brands from China and beyond. Its processors are still mostly used in Asian markets, but the company is proving a potential threat to industry leader Qualcomm and the next step is the US and Europe.
Reports in China say that the company is courting manufacturers for smartphones that will be released in the US, and Alcatel has already responded. That list will undoubtedly grow now that the company has made its processors LTE compatible for the US market, and MediaTek president Ching-Jiang Hsieh signalled his company’s intentions during CES, "If you intend to be the most global [player] in the mobile business you should be selling a chip in North America."
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