Smartphone shipments to the China market amounted to over 70 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022, soaring more than 20% from a quarter ago thanks to vendors' keen preparation for Singles' Day promotions and inventory ramp-up in December for the Lunar New Year holidays in January 2023. However, the volumes still went down 13% from the same quarter a year ago, according to figures from the latest report covering China's smartphone market

Foxconn possesses four key abilities that are necessary to become a potent EV maker - abilities to perform overseas production, supply chain management, large-scale production, and system-level solutions, according to DIGITIMES Research's study

After declining 7.7% from a quarter ago in the fourth quarter of 2022, global tablet shipments are expected to plunge a double-digit percentage sequentially to fall beneath 30 million units, the lowest quarterly level since the second quarter of 2020, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest report covering global tablet shipments

Fourth-quarter 2022 smartphone application processor (AP) shipments to China-based smartphone vendors amounted to 137 million units, plunging 24% from the prior quarter and 20.3% from the prior year, and will continue to experience a double-digit decline in the first quarter of 2023, according to figures from DIGITIMES Research's latest report covering smartphone AP shipments

Year-end holiday demand in the fourth quarter of 2022 was seriously undermined by the economic downturn brought by rising global inflation and mature markets' interest rate hikes with global notebook shipments estimated to slip 16% sequentially and over 40% on year, and the situation is unlikely to improve much in the first quarter of 2023, according to DIGITIMES Research's figures from the latest report covering Taiwan's notebook industry

China-based smartphone vendors together shipped over 150 million smartphones in fourth-quarter 2022, growing 6.6% on quarter but plunging 21.4% on year, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest report detailing China's smartphone industry

The analog IC industry is more resilient than other semiconductor sub-sectors, with better value output not only during the two economic downturns in the past 10 years, but also inventory adjustment in Q3 2022, according to DIGITIMES Research analyst David Ma.

Fourth-quarter 2022 global server shipments declined 7.1% from the prior quarter and 4.3% from the prior year as China-based datacenter operators, as well as server brands, exhibited sluggish shipment momentum while cloud service providers including Meta and Google had weakening demand, according to figures from the latest server report

Automotive electrification facilitates the growth of new EV companies. According to DIGITIMES Research, emerging businesses tend to rely on contract manufacturers for car-making, so they can focus on building brands and marketing

Third-quarter and fourth-quarter 2022 global smartphone shipments are set to come to 277 million units and 311 million units, respectively, each showing a double-digit on-year decline, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest report on the global smartphone marke

In the post-epidemic era, the overall auto market has been affected by chip shortages, coupled with the Russian-Ukrainian war and inflation, resulting in poor sales performance. In contrast, electric vehicle (EV) sales ramp up around the globe. According to DIGITIMES research, the annual sales of EV reached 9.78 million units in 2022, with an annual growth rate of 49% in 2023, it is expected to exceed 14 million units, with 9 million units in China

Taiwan-based manufacturers' combined 2022 server-related revenues are estimated to have grown nearly 16% to amount to NT$2.12 trillion, an increase much larger than their shipments' 6.1% increase. According to DIGITIMES Research Analyst Frank Kung, citing the latest server shipment figures, it was driven by the ODMs having higher volumes of high-end HPC/AI servers and US-based large datacenter operators' continuous strong demand for cloud servers, high-speed networking equipment and storage devices