The US government launched a new series of control of semiconductor export to China earlier in October - the move is expected to limit the country in designing and obtaining high-performance computing (HPC) chips and restrict the technologies to benefit Chinese AI and supercomputer development, preventing their use in strengthening Chinese military and conducting activities in violation of human rights
China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) has unveiled Chinese automakers' combined domestic auto sales and export volumes for the first nine months of 2022 with the export volumes doubled from a year ago. Although China's automotive industry is much less renowned, Chinese automakers' keen development of EVs is expected to boost their competitiveness in the global automotive market
DIGITIMES Research expects global smartphone shipments in the third and fourth quarter of 2022 to both drop over 10% on year, resulting in declines for six quarters straight, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures from the Smartphone tracker
Autonomous driving chip developers, based on their business types, can be separated into four major camps – automotive chip IDM/designers, ICT chip companies, emerging automotive chip developers, and automakers with an in-house chip R&D team – with each having its advantages in competitions, according to DIGITIMES Research's analysis
Japan-based Daikin is planning to develop chips for its home appliances in-house and its own-brand air conditioning products will begin adopting the in-house developed chips in 2025 at the earliest. China-based Leapmotor became the fourth local automaking startup to be listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) at the end of September and China's second-tier automakers such as NETA and Leapmotor have begun catching up to first-tier automakers such as Xpeng, NIO and Li Auto in terms of auto sales. Battery makers CATL, LG Energy Solution (LGES), and Samsung SDI have all recently unveiled their latest battery technology that can help improve battery cells and modules
"Taiwan's ICT companies have a longtime focus on hardware advancement, capable of agile and flexible development to adapt to unprecedented circumstances. For example, the services and system integration providers can team up with Taiwan ICT suppliers to develop 5G services targeting different industries vertically such as smart cities, transportation, banking, and smart manufacturing, then sky will be the limit for the global 5G application growth," said Roger Huang, director of DIGITIMES Research
Overall shipments of the four iPhone 14 models in 2022 are expected to reach between 78-83 million units with production volumes to arrive at 83-88 million units, weaker than those of the iPhone 13 series in 2021, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest smartphone figures
Although the US has continued raising interest rates trying to curb inflation, US consumers remain concerned about the future economy, leading to diwndling purchasing power. However, local telecom operators T-Mobile and Verizon continued witnessing on-quarter increases in subscriptions to their inexpensive and free customer premise equipment (CPE) and fixed wireless access (FWA) solutions in the second quarter of 2022, according to DIGITIMES Research's findings
Combined shipments of the global top-5 notebook brand vendors dipped 5% on month and went down over 30% on year for the second consecutive month in August due to the ongoing demand shrinkage caused by the weak global economy, slower-than-expected digestion of the vendors' channel and raw material inventory, the vendors' pessimistic outlook of the notebook market, and the influence of the power curb in China's Sichuan Province
Combined shipments of the global top 5 notebook brand vendors dipped 5% on month and went down over 30% on year for the second consecutive month in August due to ongoing demand shrinkage as a result of the weak global economy, slower-than-expected digestion of the vendors' channel and raw material inventory, the vendors having pessimistic outlook of the notebook market, and the influence of the power curb in China's Sichuan Province, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest Notebook Tracker figures
India's tablet shipments went up nearly 70% on year in the first quarter of 2022 with Samsung Electronics being the largest tablet brand, followed by Lenovo. The two vendors together contribute over 50% of India's overall tablet shipments, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures. India-based Lava was the third largest tablet brand in the quarter
