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Friday 21 April 2023
Apple iPhone 14 the top OLED smartphone on market in March
With iPhones accounting for four of the top-five models in terms of unit sales in the first quarter of 2023, Apple is undoubtedly the most popular brand in the OLED smartphone business,...
Wednesday 19 April 2023
OSATs see handset IC demand remain sluggish
ASE Technology and other OSATs continue to experience low production utilization rates for flip-chip (FC) packaging, due to sluggish demand for handset ICs, according to industry...
Wednesday 19 April 2023
Refurbished, used mobile phone sales rise in China
Mobile phone sales in China remain sluggish in the second quarter, but sales of used and refurbished phones have been brisk, according to supply chain sources.
Tuesday 18 April 2023
MediaTek gearing up for deployment in automotive sector to counter rival Qualcomm
This week, MediaTek introduced Dimensity Auto, an automotive chip platform consisting of its existing automotive chips as well as future planned product lines, signaling the company's...
Monday 17 April 2023
Foxconn reportedly files claim for India's mobile phone incentives
As iPhone production and exports surged over the past year, Taiwan-based iPhone manufacturers operating in India quickly requested reimbursement after meeting the incentive targets...
Friday 14 April 2023
Satellite mobile phones to boom
With Qualcomm and more chip vendors stepping up the development of satellite communication chips for smartphones, satellite phones are nearing commercialization, according to industry...
Friday 14 April 2023
Vivo embarks on new investments to expand mobile phone production in India
China-based Vivo has begun a fresh round of investments in India and looking to build the South Asian country into one of its regional production hubs amid regulatory pressures from...
Thursday 13 April 2023
Apple leads India's mobile phone exports, first time in history
Thanks to India's policy support and Apple contract manufacturers' massive investments amid an electronics manufacturing ecosystem diversification, India doubled its mobile phone...
Wednesday 12 April 2023
Mobile phone AP supply chain expects recovery in 3Q23
Semiconductor backend packaging and testing and mobile phone power amplifier (PA) companies agree that visibility for large-scale orders is still unclear going into the second quarter...
Monday 10 April 2023
With 5G still in transition period, mobile phone sales continue to be dominated by 4G
Affected by factors like high smartphone penetration rates, inflation, and longer contract terms with telecom service providers, Taiwan's mobile phone market demand has been weak...
Thursday 30 March 2023
Asustek, HTC struggling to maintain sagging handset business
Taiwan-based brand vendors Asustek Computer and HTC face increasing difficulty maintaining their fragile smartphone businesses as the global handset market will likely continue to...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Karnataka approves Foxconn's proposed project, potentially for mobile phone manufacturing
Weeks after Foxconn chairman Young Liu's visit to India, India's southern state Karnataka approved 18 projects, including Foxconn's planned mobile phone manufacturing facility.
Tuesday 14 March 2023
IC verification labs see demand pick up for system vendors' self-developed chips
The efforts of system device vendors to develop new chips in-house have been stalled since the third quarter of 2022, but they have recently resumed their "acceleration track," according...
Friday 3 February 2023
Are customized mobile SoCs becoming a real new trend?
While Chinese handset vendors such as Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi are aggressively moving to develop in-house chips to differentiate their product functions, mobile SoC specialists Qualcomm...
Tuesday 10 January 2023
IDC forecasts nearly 415 million used smartphones to be shipped worldwide in 2026 with a market value of US$99.9 billion
IDC estimates worldwide shipments of used smartphones, including officially refurbished smartphones, will reach 282.6 million units in 2022. The unit growth represents an 11.5% increase...