The global smartphone application processor (AP) market grew 23% to US$30.8 billion in 2021, according to Strategy Analytics. Qualcomm maintained its smartphone AP leadership with...
A price war between major 5G handset AP suppliers MediaTek and Qualcomm is likely to kick off in the second quarter of the year, while China-based smartphone vendors are slowing down...
Taiwan-based IC design houses are cautious about their shipments for handsets in the second quarter of 2022, and are uncertain about their sales prospects for the third quarter, despite...
Different IC segments will be experiencing mixed levels of price downward pressure at least in the first half of the year, according to industry sources.
Handset TDDI (touch/display driver integration) chip prices will likely fall more significantly in the second quarter of 2022, as handset sales particularly sales by Chinese vendors...
MediaTek will continue to penetrate its 4G and 5G handset APs into Samsung Electronics midrange smartphone models in 2022, allowing its backend partners in Taiwan to benefit and indirectly...
Samsung Electronics and Intel have both stepped up efforts to expand their respective foundry businesses, eyeing bigger slices of the global foundry market particularly in the advanced...
Samsung Electronics has made an unusual move by responding to its negative rumors - one about the Game Optimisation Service (GOS) app on the Galaxy S22 series; and the other regarding...
MediaTek will see Wi-Fi core chip business rising substantially to become its largest growth driver in 2022, helping offset weakness in handset chip demand so far this year, according...
MediaTek has seen its inventory level for handset application processors (including 4G and 5G ones) swell to 160-180 days from past regular levels of around 100 days, due mainly to...
MediaTek is looking to expand its Android smartphone market share in North America with its upcoming 5G mmWave chip solutions slated for launch in the second half of this year, according...
Taiwan's RF front-end module (FEM) makers, including RichWave Technology, have scaled down their wafer starts for power amplifiers (PA) with GaAS foundries such as Win Semiconductors...