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Monday 10 April 2023
With 5G still in transition period, mobile phone sales continue to be dominated by 4G
Affected by factors like high smartphone penetration rates, inflation, and longer contract terms with telecom service providers, Taiwan's mobile phone market demand has been weak...
Thursday 30 March 2023
Asustek, HTC struggling to maintain sagging handset business
Taiwan-based brand vendors Asustek Computer and HTC face increasing difficulty maintaining their fragile smartphone businesses as the global handset market will likely continue to...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Karnataka approves Foxconn's proposed project, potentially for mobile phone manufacturing
Weeks after Foxconn chairman Young Liu's visit to India, India's southern state Karnataka approved 18 projects, including Foxconn's planned mobile phone manufacturing facility.
Tuesday 14 March 2023
IC verification labs see demand pick up for system vendors' self-developed chips
The efforts of system device vendors to develop new chips in-house have been stalled since the third quarter of 2022, but they have recently resumed their "acceleration track," according...
Friday 3 February 2023
Are customized mobile SoCs becoming a real new trend?
While Chinese handset vendors such as Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi are aggressively moving to develop in-house chips to differentiate their product functions, mobile SoC specialists Qualcomm...
Tuesday 10 January 2023
IDC forecasts nearly 415 million used smartphones to be shipped worldwide in 2026 with a market value of US$99.9 billion
IDC estimates worldwide shipments of used smartphones, including officially refurbished smartphones, will reach 282.6 million units in 2022. The unit growth represents an 11.5% increase...
Thursday 29 December 2022
Qualcomm likely to cut mobile phone SoC prices in 2023
Qualcomm is likely to cut prices for its mid-range and entry-level Snapdragon mobile phone processors, including the 400 and 600 series, in 2023, according to market sources.
Monday 26 December 2022
Chinese smartphone vendors bank on self-developed chips
Chinese smartphone brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo are expanding their involvement in the chip supply chain in terms of both self-development and investment, as they seek to differentiate...
Tuesday 13 December 2022
MediaTek's Dimensity 8200 mobile phone AP upgrades to 4nm process
After the launch of its flagship mobile phone AP Dimensity 9200, MediaTek quickly followed up with the Dimensity 8200 to compete in the value-flagship and mid-to-high tier market...
Tuesday 13 December 2022
Huawei to license mobile phone SoC patents to more companies
Huawei has licensed its mobile phone SoC (system on a chip) patents to more companies including Oppo and Samsung Electronics, according to industry sources.
Monday 12 December 2022
MediaTek faces difficulty rivaling Qualcomm in flagship mobile AP market
With Samsung Electronics still reorganizing its Exynos processor product line, the Android handset AP market has become a two-horse race between Qualcomm and MediaTek, and how the...
Monday 5 December 2022
Is Taiwan's IC design sector impacted by declined Samsung phone shipments?
Samsung Electronics has reduced smartphone production at its Vietnam production line, which could have some negative impacts on Taiwanese IC design houses like MediaTek. However,...
Monday 21 November 2022
Tech-app integrators, system architects, business model innovators badly needed in Taiwan, says MediaTek
Three major categories of talent will be badly needed to support the future growth of Taiwan's semiconductor industry and accelerate the development of digital technology, according...
Friday 11 November 2022
SMIC expects over 10% revenue drop in 4Q22
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue decline of 13-15% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2022, with gross margin...
Wednesday 9 November 2022
Vivo develops image chips to combat freezing mobile phone market
Chinese mobile phone maker Vivo recently announced a new generation of self-developed image chips. Said image chip uses the AI-ISP architecture, bringing the low latency and high-performance...
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Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research