Slightly late weekly review. Happy Weekend and Happy Monday! Some headlines: Intel will stop investing in SoFIA, its Atom-based mobile SoCs; Apple has announced a USD1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing; Google reportedly will reveal a standalone “Android VR” headset;… Read more ›
Allwinner system has a backdoor that could influence security of its chipsets; Samsung might have 5 flagships next year, and Galaxy X would be foldable 4K smartphone; Microsoft SparseLightVR could improve immersion experience and solving nausea of VR; Sony’s production at… Read more ›
MediaTek forms strategic collaboration with NavInfo; The top-20 semiconductor companies’ sales declined by 6% in 1Q16/1Q15; Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will both lower their total capex for memory ICs in 2016; Apple has announced a USD1 billion investment in… Read more ›
Sharp reportedly plans to cut 15% of its total workforce in Japan; DRAM chip manufacturers are intending to reduce their inventories in 2Q16; The smartphone market is going to get worse before it gets better; The larger handset of Apple… Read more ›
JDI estimated a net loss of JPY31.8bln for the year ended March; XMC expects to mass produce 48-layer 3D NAND Flash in 2018; micro fuel cell lasts 10 times longer than battery; 1Q16 104.7mln smartphones shipped to the China market; 1Q16 Taiwan-based… Read more ›
Tsinghua Unigroup has purchased a 3% stake in Imagination Technologies; Apple may have paid USD millions to Huawei for patent licensing in 2015;Apple is reportedly pressurizing its supply chain to reduce the costs at most 30% to ensure its profit; . YunOS… Read more ›
Indian smartphone shipment reached 24.4mln in 1Q16; HoloFlex holographic flexible smartphone; Doppio “multi-screen” smartwatch; Samsung, Huawei and HTC possibly further pressuring the entire supply chain’s ASPs; Google did not give up Android One; etc. Chipset Forbes’ Rober Hof believes that… Read more ›
Qualcomm security flaw impacts Android devices; China Broadcast Network becomes China’s fourth telecom operator; UITC launches 337 investigations (patent infringement) on various electronics companies; China-based vendors shipped 128.6 million smartphones globally in 1Q16; Indian government is reportedly still mulling over… Read more ›
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… Read more ›
Samsung considers itself a software company more than a hardware manufacturer; Google indicates VR is something the company taking seriously — wireless, affordable and comfortable; Micromax Yu wants to redefine flagship with their new phone; google to have a hardware… Read more ›
Samsung launches 3rd-gen 14nm LPC process; Rumored Samsung to launch foldable device “smartlet” next year; Apple is not allowed to sell refurbished iPhone in India; Apple to increase iPhone SE orders, plan to manufacture more than 5mln in 2Q16; Fitbit… Read more ›
1Q16 India smartphone market grows 23%, becoming world’s second biggest smartphone market; Qualcomm launches Zeroth SDK; Cypress acquires Broadcom IoT business; AMOLED panel shipment in 2016 would be 353mln, LTPS LCD to be 564mln; Xiaomi and Huawei rumored to launch… Read more ›
LG Innotek announced an under glass fingerprint sensor module; 1Q16 global smartphone shipped 335mln; 1Q16 105mln smartphones shipped in China; 1Q16 global tablet shipped 46.5mln units; Huaqin smartphone shipment forecast 52mln-57mln units globally; etc. Display China has developed a new… Read more ›
China has lost 136 handset vendors in one year; Intel cancels SoFIA and Broxton chipsets; Google and Sony have smart contact lens patents; MediaTek has reported gross margin for 1Q16 fell further to 38.1% while consolidated revenues decreased 9.4% sequentially… Read more ›
