July 2016 – IF / News

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7-29 Week: A busy week gone by, a new busy week coming. This week recap with 2Q16 smartphone shipment numbers, a few corporate financial reports, LeEco acquires Vizio; etc.

A busy week gone by, a new busy week coming. This week recap: Headlines–LeEco announced an agreement to buy American TV-maker Vizio; After more than 50 years of miniaturization, the transistor could stop shrinking in just 5 years; Analog Devices Inc. (ADI)… Read more ›

7-31: Spreadtrum 4G chipset is used by Samsung new smartphone; Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 reportedly is manufactured with 10nm process; 2Q16 global tablet shipment reached 33.54mln units; etc.

Chipset According to SEMI, foundry capacity growth is forecast to outgrow the overall industry at about 5% each year to reach 6 million wafers per month (wpm) (200mm equivalent) by the end of 2017. Taiwan is the largest foundry capacity… Read more ›

7-30: A series of numbers — 2Q16 340mln smartphones shipped, Apple iPhone latest ASP USD595, Microsoft sold 13.8mln Lumia, etc.

Chipset TSMC, Samsung and Intel are competing aggressively on advanced manufacturing process node—after 14/16nm, now entering 10nm. Intel will be superior to TSMC and Samsung at 10nm as it was at 14nm, says Linley Gwennap of the Linley Group. TSMC’s… Read more ›

7-28: Samsung ends its Transparent OLED Display Panel; Samsung is likely to ship over 350 million smartphones in 2016; Samsung’s revenue for the 2Q16 KRW 50.94 trillion; etc.

Touch Display Samsung ends its Transparent OLED Display Panel, which is the base panel used in all TOLED products available on the market. (TechRadar, Inavate, CN Beta) AU Optronics (AUO) returned to profitability at the operating profit level in 2Q16,… Read more ›

7-27: Huawei 1H16 smartphone shipment 60.56mln units; LeEco acquires Vizio; Tsinghua Unigrou reportedly to merge with XMC; etc.

Chipset MediaTek Helio X30 will be manufactured by TSMC using 10nm manufacturing process. It features deca-core consisting of 2×A73 (2.8GHz), 4×A53 (2.2GHz) and 4×A53 (2GHz) cores. It also supports 4 channels LPDDR4 RAM (up to 8GB RAM storage modules), and… Read more ›

7-26: Verizon Verizon acquires Yahoo’s operating business for USD4.83bln in cash; Cyanogen denies rumors that Cyanogen is shifting focus to apps; Huawei revenue within 1H16 is estimated at about CNY245.5bln; etc.

Chipset NVIDIA announces two Quadro models GPU that will fill out the high-end of the Quadro family, the P6000 and P5000. (AnandTech, article, OfWeek) Touch Display OLED displays for smartphones are expected to almost double from last year’s 250 million… Read more ›

7-26: Apple iPhone sales are poised to hit the 1 billion mark; The transistor could stop shrinking in just 5 years; Chinese display makers are diverting investments away from LCD production and into flexible OLED production; etc.

Apple iPhone sales are poised to hit the 1 billion mark; The transistor could stop shrinking in just 5 years; Chinese display makers are diverting investments away from LCD production and into flexible OLED production; Verizon has come out as… Read more ›

7-23: India is expected to approve an exemption enabling Apple’s first retail stores in the country; Rumored Cyanogen to lay off 20% staff; Innolux working with NEXT for world’s first flexible fingerprint sensor; etc.

Touch Display Korea Display Industry Association lists the current situation of China’s AMOLED facilities based on Jan 2016. (ET News, press, OLED-Info, TechNews) Combined, this trend has seen mobile demand for OLED hit new highs of 264 million units in… Read more ›

7-22 Week: Enjoy the weekend, prepare for Monday. Last week information summary includes SoftBank, ARM, Google’s antitrust problem, etc.

Enjoy the weekend, prepare for Monday. Last week information summary: Headlines: SoftBank has confirmed acquiring British chip designer Arm Holdings; EU targets Google over further antitrust complaints; South Korea antitrust watchdog conducted an investigation into Google; Touch panel vendor TPK-KY’s… Read more ›

7-22: Samsung sues Huawei for patent infringement in China; LG has reportedly started developing foldable displays; Cando has announced bankruptcy; etc.

Samsung sues Huawei for patent infringement in China; Samsung acquired stake in BYD for CNY3bln; LG has reportedly started developing foldable displays; Cando has announced bankruptcy; Vodafone and Huawei have successfully squeezed 23.453Gbps over the airwaves in a test of what… Read more ›

7-21: Qualcomm, Intel and ASML latest financial report; Softbank expects ARM to produce 1 trillion chips annually in 20 years; Corning has revealed Gorilla Glass 5; etc.

Qualcomm, Intel and ASML latest financial report; Softbank expects ARM to produce 1 trillion chips annually in 20 years; Corning has revealed Gorilla Glass 5; Worldwide smartphone production volume totaled around 315 million units in 2Q16; South Korea antitrust watchdog… Read more ›

7-20: TSMC indicates that SoftBank’s acquisition of ARM no impact on TSMC collaboration with ARM; Samsung adoption of AMOLED might lead to around 70% of its smartphones to feature AMOLED panels; etc.

TSMC indicates that SoftBank’s acquisition of ARM no impact on TSMC collaboration with ARM; Samsung adoption of AMOLED might lead to around 70% of its smartphones to feature AMOLED panels; Toshiba is planning to start the manufacturing of the world’s… Read more ›

7-19: Softbank acquires ARM; TSMC rumored to gain exclusive deals for Apple A10 and A11 processors; The strategy behind OPPO’s newfound success is staying away from e-commerce;

Softbank acquires ARM; TSMC rumored to gain exclusive deals for Apple A10 and A11 processors; The strategy behind OPPO’s newfound success is staying away from e-commerce; AMOLED penetration rate in the global smartphone market will surpass 20% by the end of… Read more ›

7-18: Qualcomm faces up to a KRW1 trillion fine in Korea for allegedly violating anti-trust regulations; Nokia hits Huawei with a Texas federal suit accusing it of infringing three patents for 4G technologies; etc.

Qualcomm faces up to a KRW1 trillion fine in Korea for allegedly violating anti-trust regulations; Nokia hits Huawei with a Texas federal suit accusing it of infringing three patents for 4G technologies; ZTE would reduce low-end products in 2016, and… Read more ›

7-16: TSMC indicates 5nm process enter MP in 2020; Infineon acquires Cree’s Wolfspeed business; OPPO R9 reported to switch platform from MTK to QCT; etc.

TSMC indicates 5nm process enter MP in 2020; Infineon acquires Cree’s Wolfspeed business; OPPO R9 reported to switch platform from MTK to QCT; Micron has announced its newest embedded SLC NAND flash optimized for the next generation of IoT and automotive… Read more ›

7-15: TSMC has reported consolidated revenues of NTD221.81bln for 2Q16; Samsung foundry business is forecast to have earned USD613mln in sales in 1Q16; A new Apple research center in the town of Grenoble, France focusing on improving imaging technology; etc.

TSMC has reported consolidated revenues of NTD221.81bln for 2Q16; Samsung foundry business is forecast to have earned USD613mln in sales in 1Q16; A new Apple research center in the town of Grenoble, France focusing on improving imaging technology; LG Innotek… Read more ›