5-6 Week: This week some headlines – Intel cancels Broxton and SoFIA; SPIL terminates its strategic alliance agreement and share subscription agreement with Tsinghua Unigroup; Samsung will soon be completing development of 3rd-generation LPC (Low-Power Compact) 14nm FinFET; Samsung is expected to release a foldable device next year internally known as “smartlet”; etc.

2016-05-05

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Weekend is impending, and here summarizing what’s happened in one week:-

Some headlines: Intel cancels Broxton (smartphone and tablet) and SoFIA; Taiwan’s SPIL terminates its strategic alliance agreement and share subscription agreement with Tsinghua Unigroup; Samsung will soon be completing development of 3rd-generation LPC (Low-Power Compact) 14nm FinFET; Samsung is expected to release a foldable device next year internally known as “smartlet”; LG Innotek announces an under glass fingerprint sensor.

Some component news: Samsung and NVIDIA have decided to privately settle their long-running patent lawsuits with licensing deals; An additional 115 devices powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 are already in development; LG Display plans to invest KRW450 billion (USD395.99 million) in South Korea to build production capacity for flexible OLED;

New numbers: MediaTek 1Q16 consolidated revenues decreased 9.4% sequentially to NTD55.91 billion; Samsung Electronics reported 1Q16 operating profits of KRW6.68 trillion; Forecast overall China vendors’ dual camera smartphone models to achieve 40 million units in 2016; In 2015 the number of China handset vendors dropped 136 to 309; Indian smartphone market grew 23% in 1Q16; Worldwide shipments of tablets (including slate and detachable form factors) for 1Q16 reached 39.6 million units; Global smartwatch shipments grew 223% annually to reach 4.2 million units in 1Q16;

New technologies: “ANTs” (actuating nano transducers), which is a few billionths of a meter across and powered by light; The world’s first graphene electronic paper; The firefly-inspired OLEDs; Microsoft Pre Touch function; Sony and Google both have its own “contact-lens” patents; Microsoft’s “Tattio”;