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Wednesday 12 August 2026
FocalTech expects demand to improve in the second half of 2026
Touch controller and display driver IC maker FocalTech Systems said it saw revenue regain quarter-on-quarter momentum in the second quarter of 2026 as the 618 shopping festival, new...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Haechitech enters eSSD sensors as it prepares Kosdaq listing

South Korean sensor IC designer Haechitech is moving beyond smartphone compass chips into enterprise solid-state drive temperature sensors,...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
MediaTek July 2026 revenue falls as non-mobile units offset slowdown

MediaTek reported July 2026 revenue of NT$48.475 billion (US$1.5 billion), down 16.44% month-over-month but up 12.16% year-over-year,...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Novatek sees 3Q26 growth resting on smartphone DDI and Edge AI demand

Novatek, a Taiwan-based display driver integrated circuit (DDI) supplier, said at its August 6 investor conference that second-quarter 2026...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Google readies Pixel 11 lineup, market breakthrough still under question

Google has officially announced that it will unveil its annual Pixel 11 flagship smartphone series on August 13, 2026, with the lineup...

Monday 10 August 2026
Samsung unveils 200MP image sensor as Oppo targets first adoption

Samsung Electronics has launched its next-generation 200-megapixel CMOS image sensor, the ISOCELL HPC, and reports said Oppo is set...

Friday 7 August 2026
Raydium sees slower third-quarter momentum after smartphone OLED DDI pull-ins
Raydium Semiconductor said its third-quarter 2026 momentum is likely to ease after customers pulled in orders for smartphone OLED display driver ICs in the second quarter. The Taiwan-based...
Friday 7 August 2026
Samsung sounds out Novatek for Galaxy S28 Ultra DDI

Samsung Electronics is considering opening its flagship Galaxy S display driver IC (DDI) supply chain to an outside supplier, a move...

Friday 7 August 2026
Huawei's Richard Yu warns of smartphone price hikes as memory costs soar
Huawei executive director and Consumer Business Group chairman Richard Yu warned on August 5 that sharply rising memory costs could trigger widespread smartphone price increases, saying...
Thursday 6 August 2026
China smartphone shipments fall 5.5% as 5G models gain share
China smartphone shipments fell 5.5% year-over-year in the first half of 2026 even as 5G handset shipments rose 1.7%, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications...
Thursday 6 August 2026
Memory shortages squeeze smartphone shipments, leaving Chinese brands to sell the AI upgrade

The global smartphone market is approaching an unusual turning point in the second half of 2026. Artificial intelligence has become...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
Foldable smartphone shipments are set to rise 20% as Apple enters the market
Global foldable smartphone shipments are expected to increase 20% in 2026 from 2025, according to industry players cited in the source, even as the broader handset market faces tighter...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
CXMT-SK Hynix LPDDR6 race shifts to yields, customers and capacity

China's CXMT is preparing limited production of LPDDR6 smartphone memory around the end of 2026, narrowing a technology gap with Samsung...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
Smartphone makers brace for lower volumes, higher prices, and deeper market split
Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek delivered similar warnings last week: the global smartphone market is entering a more expensive, more polarized phase. For users, this means fewer affordable...