Apple will place orders for around 90 million units of the freshly launched iPhone 13 series with its upstream assemblers for 2021, Digitimes Research estimates.

Digitimes Research, on August 25, hosted an industrial trend forum covering the latest topics of the communication industry such as 5G smartphones and telecom network infrastructure to assist Taiwanese vendors to get hold of the newest trends of the industry.

Remote communication has become a norm as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, creating business opportunities for cloud-based Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) video conferencing tools such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

South Korea's top-2 memory makers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are optimistic about their business performances for the second half of 2021 thanks to strong memory demand for mobile devices and servers, according to Digitimes Research.

Qualcomm remained the largest supplier of high-end 5G smartphone application processors in the first half of 2021, according to Digitimes Research. But MediaTek is gearing up for a bigger share of the high-end segment with its Dimensity 2000 series.

AI speech recognition algorithm companies in China are crossing into the development of AI chips to further solidify their foothold in the market. Doing so will give the companies the ability to optimize algorithm and chip integration.

The global top-5 notebook brands (not including Apple) saw their combined shipments slip 5% on month in July, due mainly to a substantial slowdown in demand from the gradually saturating education procurement sector, despite robust back-to-office orders and shipments of new consumer models.

Taiwan's PC monitor shipments fell nearly 7% sequentially to 22.12 million units in the second quarter of 2021, due mainly to shortages of related components and materials, according to Digitimes Research.

The global top-5 notebook brands (not including Apple) saw their combined shipments slip 5% on month in July, due mainly to a substantial slowdown in demand from the gradually saturating education procurement sector, despite robust back-to-office orders and shipments of new consumer models, according to Digitimes Research.

TSMC, United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) are forecast to see their combined revenues increase over 10% sequentially in the third quarter of 2021, with revenues for the whole year estimated to climb more than 20% on year, according to Digitimes Research.

Samsung Electronics is unlikely to move its 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) FET technology to volume production until 2023, which may put it at a disadvantage in the race for cutting-edge chips, according to Digitimes Research.

With a huge population of 1.37 billion people, a high demographic dividend, and generous subsidies for electric vehicles (EV) from both the central and state governments, India is expected to increase EV penetration rate from 1% to 10% by 2025.