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Soon we are counting down the end of 2016, but first this week:

Headlines:

• Qualcomm is buying NXP Semiconductors with total value USD47B
• Samsung’s first MediaTek-powered Galaxy Grand Prime Plus (Eastern Europe) or J2 Prime (South America)
• Samsung has announced 2 new family of communication module ARTIK 0 and ARTIK 7 for IoT
• Intel launching Atom E3900 processor series, focusing on the IoT
• ARM announced 2 chipset designs for IoT, namely the ARM Cortex-M23 and ARM Cortex-M33
• SK Hynix plans to produce 10 nm-class DRAM starting from 2Q17
• The Wi-Fi Alliance has officially certified WiGig
• Throughout China and other Asia countries, OPPO has 320,000 offline retails shops
• Indonesia might launch a new legislation from 1 Jan. 2017 to enforce “Made in Indonesia” on high-end, 4G smartphones
• In lieu of terrible situation caused by Galaxy Note 7, Samsung has reportedly decided to cull 200 executives
• Apple, Samsung, LG, HTC financial report of 3Q16

Numbers:

• According to GfK, global smartphone demand totaled 353M units in 3Q16
• According to IDC, vendors shipped a total of 362.9M smartphones worldwide in 3Q16
• According to Counterpoint, OPPO and vivo number 1 and 2 smartphone brands in China in 3Q16
• The global smartphone AP market grew 3% YoY to reach USD10B in 1H16, according to Strategy Analytics.
• The global tablet AP market declined 34% YoY falling to USD889M in 1H16, according to Strategy Analytics
• Chipworks-TechInsight estimates the total bill of materials of Apple iPhone 7 (128GB) be USD275
• IHS Markit estimates the total cost of Google Pixel XL (32GB) to be USD285.75
• Gartner’s prediction on most important trends in 2017 and strategic predictions for the next 3~5 years

Products: BlackBerry DTEK60, Xiaomi Mi Note 2 and Mi Mix, Xiaomi Mi VR, 360 N4s, ZTE Axon 7 Max, Huawei Enjoy 6, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Surface Studio, Microsoft VR, etc.