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8-15: Xiaomi is looking to set up 2 more manufacturing facilities in India through Foxconn; Global shipments of mobile devices with the iris and facial recognition features will reach 400mln units; etc.

Chipset According to Gartner, ending 3 consecutive years of double-digit growth, foundries’ revenue will increase by just 4%-6% in future years. Foundries gear up value-added services for fan-out and wafer-level packaging business. (Gartner report) The foundry growth of advanced technologies Read more ›

8-11: OPPO and vivo are aided by old-school brick-and-mortar stores and the kind of advertising blitz; JDI has announced a new display technology known as a “Full Active” panel; etc.

Chipset TSMC reportedly will replace Samsung as the sole supplier of chips for the new Apple Watch starting 2H16, using 16nm process technology, according to KGI Securities analyst  Ming-Chi Kuo. (Digitimes, press, EE Focus, Laoyaoba) Spreadtrum announces its WCDMA / Read more ›

8-9: Discovered 4 new vulnerabilities affecting over 900mln Android devices with Qualcomm chipset; Samsung controls about 99% of the global smartphone OLED market; etc.

Chipset Mobile researchers from Check Point Software Technologies announced 4 new vulnerabilities affecting over 900 million Android smartphones and tablets built using the Qualcomm chipset. (CN Beta, Channel News, Reseller, Check Point) Qualcomm announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Read more ›

8-7: LeEco’s Jia Yueting aims to sell 100 million units of LeEco + Coolpad smartphones in 2 years; has suggested that making consumer-ready foldable phones is not exactly possible; etc.

Touch Display Universal Display (UDC) signed a 5-year OLED Technology License Agreement and Supplemental Material Purchase Agreement with Tianma Micro-electronics. UDC grants Tianma non-exclusive license rights to manufacture and sell OLED display products based on its IPs. UDC also supplies Read more ›

8-1: Qualcomm and OPPO have entered into a new 3G and 4G patent license agreement for China; Didi Chuxing is reportedly taking over Uber’s local business in China; China vendors have curved display smartphones for the market soon; etc.

Chipset Qualcomm and OPPO announced that that they have entered into a new 3G and 4G patent license agreement for China. Under the terms of the agreement, Qualcomm has granted OPPO a royalty bearing patent license to develop, manufacture and Read more ›