Carmaker Stellantis will halt production at its Rennes-La Janais Citroen plant in Brittany 3 July 2022 due to a chip shortage. Another production halt at the Sochaux Peugeot plant in eastern France was extended until the end of Jun 2022,… Read more ›
Apple’s AirTag could see a second-generation release, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suspects, but only if shipments of the tracking accessory continue to grow. The AirTag has gradually grown in shipments since its release. The shipment estimates for the tracker… Read more ›
The European smartphone market declined by 12% YoY in 1Q22, according to Counterpoint Research. There are 49M smartphones shipped in Europe in 1Q22, the lowest first quarter total since 1Q13. Samsung remained as the region’s top vendor, despite a significant… Read more ›
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has said it has no concrete plans for factories in Europe – remarks that come amid efforts by the European Union to encourage Taiwanese firms to manufacture chips there. In Feb 2022, the EU unveiled… Read more ›
UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and OnePlus have announced a new marketing partnership in support of the North American launch of the OnePlus Nord N20 5G, a perfect entry-level mobile device that makes the power of 5G… Read more ›
In 2019, Asurion published a study indicating that US residents checked their smartphones an average of 96 times per day, or about once every ten minutes (when accounting for eight hours of sleep). The company has recently done a follow-up… Read more ›
ARM-related M&A issues have been ongoing for years. Nvidia announced in Sept 2020 that it would acquire the U.K.-based company, but the attempted failed after antitrust reviews in multiple countries. Then, SK Hynix, Intel and Qualcomm made the same announcements.… Read more ›
According to IDC’s forecast, shipments of smartphones will decline 3.5% to 1.31B units in 2022. After three consecutive quarters of decline and increasing challenges in both supply and demand, IDC has significantly reduced its forecast for 2022 from the previous… Read more ›
HSBC has lowered their global and 5G smartphone shipment forecasts by 5%-10% for 2022, to 1,30M-1,343M units, and by 5%-7% for 2023, to 685M-885Munits, to reflect weaker demand given the macro uncertainties. While overall smartphone demand has been weak for… Read more ›
Samsung has reportedly reduced its smartphone sales target for 2022 by 10%. Samsung is now aiming to sell around 270M smartphones in 2022. It has initially set a target of 300M units. It will proportionally reduce the production of budget,… Read more ›
Samsung is planning to exit the high volume but low value feature phone business in India gradually, with the last batch of the devices for the country set to be manufactured by contract manufacturing partner Dixon in Dec 2022. Samsung… Read more ›
Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (imec) has recently shared its sub-‘1nm’ silicon and transistor roadmap. The roadmap contains breakthrough transistor designs that evolve from the usual FinFET transistors that may final till 3nm, to new Gate All Round (GAA) nanosheets and forksheet… Read more ›
Apple has reportedly told some of its contract manufacturers that it wants to increase production outside China.India and Vietnam, which are already sites of Apple production, are among the countries short-listed by the company as alternatives. Apple is citing China’s… Read more ›
According to Counterpoint Research, Xiaomi passed a significant milestone in 1Q22. Xiaomi has crossed the 500M smartphone installed base mark early in the quarter to join Samsung and Apple in the elite club. Theoretically, Xiaomi’s large user base can (1)… Read more ›
Apple assembly partner Pegatron has advised production at a factory in Shanghai has been impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown, a warning that could harm the manufacturing of iPhones and other products. Pegatron assembles between 20% to 30% of all iPhone… Read more ›
According to TrendForce, global smartphone production volume in 1Q22 was 310M units, a QoQ decrease of 12.8%, primarily attributed to ongoing inventory adjustments in various distribution channels performed by a number of brands and the cyclical off-season, which led to… Read more ›