The semiconductor industry has boomed in recent years. The global semiconductor is projected to exceed US$1 trillion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 7%. Among the five key applications, automobile is the most promising, with sales growth far higher than the industry average

As China is reopening to the world amid a domestic resurgence of infections, how will China's role as the world's dominant production site for notebook PCs change in the long run? Will there be another disruption in the supply chain this year around the Chinese New Year holidays? Analysts said probably not

Car display shipments during 2022 are forecast to remain short of 200 million sheets. Notably, center control display (CCD) shipments are expected to decrease to 95.3 million sheets for 2022, according to forecasts made by DIGITIMES Research

The global server market continued to enjoy strong demand from large datacenter operators in 2022. Robust demand for cloud services and hybrid working schedules after the easing of the pandemic and the stable supply of ICs and components in the second half also boosted full-year 2022 global server shipments by 6.1% from a year ago, according to DIGITIMES Research Analyst Frank Kung, citing the latest server shipment figures

According to DIGITIMES Research, South Korea has built a common standard platform for 500kg next-generation mid-size satellites, suitable for various payloads such as electro-optical cameras, high-spectral resolution instruments, imaging radar, and microwave sensors. This will be advantageous in shortening development time and reducing costs

India and Vietnam are to become the biggest beneficiaries of smartphone supply chain migration out of China, according to DIGITIMES Research analyst Luke Lin, who estimates that India will produce 45-50% of Apple's iPhones by 2027, on a par with China, where 80-85% of iPhones were produced in 2022

DIGITIMES Research estimates that about 18.3 million foldable smartphones are shipped in 2022, with Samsung accounting for 75% of the volumes. The total shipments are expected to rise to 27.8 million in 2023, with Samsung's market share decreasing to 66% due to competition from other major competitors, but the Korean brand will continue to be the industry leader, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest study over smartphones

The US-China trade war, decarbonization, and geopolitical factors have been the driving forces behind a partial migration of server production lines out of China to Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and North America. The growing presence of Southeast Asia and North America in the server manufacturing sector is especially significant

Smartphone shipments to the Chinese market amounted to 58.4 million units in the third quarter of 2022, falling 20.5% from a year ago to a new low since third-quarter 2020, as a result of China's lockdown restrictions and weakening market demand, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures from China Smartphone Market report

Of the global tablet shipments in 2022, models equipped with OLED panels will account for 6.2%, up 3.4pp from a year ago, while Samsung Electronics, Huawei and Lenovo will be the number-1 to number-3 OLED tablet brands worldwide, respectively, in the year, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures

Global top-5 notebook brands, excluding Apple, saw their combined shipments slipped 6% on month and close to 50% on year in November because of worsening global inflation and the fact that increasing interest rates have seriously undermined the economies of both mature and emerging markets

The number of mobile broadband services users worldwide has seen a slower increase than that of fixed network users in the past three years because of the stay-at-home economy induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the trend prompted several 5G telecom operators to commercialize their fixed wireless access (FWA) services to compete for customers with fixed networks, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest study