Chinese chip makers take No.2 slot in tablet market

Cheap devices take a bite of iPad sales

Two Chinese chip manufacturers have emerged as the most important suppliers in the tablet market after Apple revealed the latest figures from the research firm Canalys. It says Allwinner and Rockchip each they expect to sell processors 50 million this year, they tend to end up in sub-$200 tablets of "white box" that attract consumers unable or unwilling to pay for the most popular brands. The growing use of chips made in China as a Tablet is good news for Britain the arm, that many of the designs and which itself licenses reports that 80 percent of these products ends up being sold outside the Republic, mainly in Latin America and other emerging markets.

It means that cheap Chinese tablets are nibbling slowly away in the market from the likes of Apple, who currently commands the first place--and is projected to sell about 70 million ipads this year by incorporating their own chip designs.

According to Canalys, processor Chinese firms collectively have already surpassed us Giants established as Qualcomm and Nvidia in terms of sales of tablet, with its chips by activating brands such as PronoTec, KingPad and Dragon Touch.

He says that though does not expect U.S. firms to lose his position in the dominant tablet on the market very soon and that Apple and Samsung probably will continue to use their own processors, the Chinese are slowly upping the ante as their chips become increasingly sophisticated.

Zhuhai Allwinner, for example, whose core chip-based single released in 2011 helped trigger the market for low-cost Android tablets, has already gone up a gear with new dual-core and quad-core parts.

Hewlett-Packard this year meanwhile released the 7 HP Slate, tablet Android Rockchip processor that sells in the States for $139.

Rockchip has also sold processors used in tablets Excite and MediaPad from Toshiba and Huawei.

Dave Evans is a commentator established long in both the IT and mobile industries. His current focus is in part trends of prices within the sector. You can send an email here