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In 2022 , approximately 1.2 billion smartphones were shipped globally , a decrease of around 10 % from the number of smartphones shipped in 2021 , which is evidence of the fact that smartphone saturation has occurred in numerous national markets ( where the onus to upgrade a smartphone every couple of years to the latest offering is not so keenly felt ).
Of the Apple smartphones , the oldest chip present in these models is the A14 Bionic , which has a neural engine ( as do all subsequent Apple smartphone chips ).
Of the Samsung smartphones , neither of the bestselling models has a dedicated AI acceleration component to their chipsets .
Not all of these 1.2 billion smartphones include chipsets that have AI coprocessing capabilities . To get a sense of the proportion of these chipsets that incorporate AI coprocessing , the report considers the best-selling models and how their volume of sales contributes to the total annual sales figure .
The ten bestselling smartphone models of 2022 ( most of which are Apple smartphones , the rest Samsung ) account for approximately 20 % of global sales .
As premium smartphones tend to almost entirely have AI acceleration incorporated into their chipsets now , it ‘ stands to reason ’ that the use of AI in smartphones will grow by volume compared to chipsets that do not incorporate AI coprocessing .
As such , out of this 20 % of global sales , smartphones with AI coprocessing account for approximately 17 %, and smartphones without AI coprocessing account for 3 %.
The report concedes that applying these proportions to the total of 1.2 billion smartphones for 2022 would be erroneous , as several other factors need to be considered .
The first is that the smartphone market is in decline and 2022 saw smartphone vendors cull some of their less profitable models so as to create a smaller portfolio as a means to increase profitability via volume ( flagship models cater to more developed smartphone markets , whereas the cheapest models are a means of increasing market share in developing markets ).
The second is the evolution of smartphone sales in developing markets .
Already developed markets – such as North America and much of Europe – have nowhere to go in terms of
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