181 news items tagged mobile phone
GF, Soitec announce RF-SOI wafer supply agreement
Friday 6 November 2020Globalfoundries and Soitec have announced a multi-year supply agreement for 300mm radio frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) wafers.
Taiwan GaAs supply chain, IDMs gearing up for Wi-Fi 6 boom
Monday 2 November 2020The Wi-Fi 6 penetration rate is likely to advance to 50-60% in 2021 with the latest wireless communication standard increasingly adopted for handsets, routers and notebooks, prompting...
Samsung expects profit to decline in 4Q20
Friday 30 October 2020Samsung Electronics expects profit to decline in the fourth quarter amid weakening memory chip demand from server customers and intensifying competition in mobile phones and consumer...
Cadence and UMC certify mmWave reference flow on 28HPC+ process for advanced RF designs
Friday 24 July 2020Cadence Design Systems and United Microelectronics (UMC) have jointly announced that the Cadence millimeter wave (mmWave) reference flow has achieved certification for UMC's 28HPC+...
Xiaomi, MediaTek reportedly team up for custom smartphone chips
Friday 3 July 2020Chinese handset vendor Xiaomi reportedly will work more closely with MediaTek to jointly develop customized SoCs for 5G smartphones after having its Redmi 10X series adopt the chipmaker's...
Global device shipments to grow 0.9% in 2020, says Gartner
Wednesday 22 January 2020Worldwide shipments of devices - PCs, tablets and mobile phones - will total 2.16 billion units in 2020, an increase of 0.9% from 2019, according to Gartner. In 2019, global shipments...
Sustainability and digitalization: Q&A with Covestro CEO Markus Steilemann
Tuesday 3 December 2019Germany-based Covestro, spun off from the Bayer Group in September 2015, is now among the world's leading makers of premium polymers with 30 production bases and around 16,000 employees...
Smartphone challenges continue in 2019, says IDC
Wednesday 11 September 2019The worldwide handset market has shown signs of recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020, pushing smartphone shipment growth back into positive territory, according to IDC...
GCC handset market enjoys robust growth, says IDC
Wednesday 4 September 2019The overall mobile phone market of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) experienced robust on-year unit growth of 11.5% in the second quarter of 2019, with shipments totaling 6.5 million...
India smartphone market registers shipment growths in 2Q19, says IDC
Thursday 15 August 2019India's smartphone market saw highest-ever second-quarter shipments of 36.9 million in the second quarter of 2019, with a 9.9% on-year and 14.8% on-quarter growth, according to IDC...
5G phones to represent 51% of total phone sales in 2023, Gartner says
Friday 19 July 20195G-capable phones will represent 6% of total sales of phones in 2020, according to Gartner.
EMEA smartphone market stable in 1Q19 but Middle East slump pulls down value, says IDC
Wednesday 12 June 2019The EMEA smartphone market reached 83.7 million units in the first quarter of 2019, a 3.3% drop on the same quarter last year, confirming recent trends of a slowing market, according...
2018 review and 2019 outlook: How Taiwan ICT industry can regain ground
Monday 24 December 2018The US-China trade war, a key threat to the global economy in 2018, will continue to play a pivotal role in 2019. But what does it mean to the world's biggest manufacturer and market,...
Africa mobile phone shipments flatline as major markets experience differing fortunes, says IDC
Wednesday 28 November 2018Africa's mobile phone market declined 2.1% on quarter in the third quarter of 2018 according to the latest figures announced by IDC. Overall shipments for the quarter totaled 52.6...
Inspection service firm Sporton posts EPS of NT$2.15 for 3Q18
Thursday 25 October 2018Mobile device testing and certification service company Sporton International saw its net profits increase 4.7% on year to NT$199 million (US$6.42 million) in the third quarter of...
Global smartphone shipment forecast, 2019 and beyond
Monday 22 October 2018Digitimes Research estimates global smartphone shipments will not be able to break through the 1.5 billion unit mark by 2019 as 5G communication has yet to spur a wave of upgrades...
Smartphone sales slacken in EMEA, says IDC
Friday 24 August 2018The EMEA mobile phone market continues to lose steam, according to IDC.
Win Semi expects to post 10% revenue decrease in 3Q18
Monday 23 July 2018Taiwan-based Win Semiconductors expects to report an around 10% sequential decrease in consolidated revenues for the third quarter of 2018, citing weaker-than-expected demand due...
Increasing PC prices to lead to flat growth of global device shipments in 2018, says Gartner
Thursday 12 July 2018Worldwide shipments of devices - PCs, tablets and mobile phones - are on pace to record 0.9% growth to reach 2.28 billion units in 2018, according to Gartner. The PC and tablet market...
Samsung unveils large mobile phone factory in India
Tuesday 10 July 2018Samsung Electronics has unveiled what it calls the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturing plant in India. Prime minister of India Shri Narendra Modi presided over the inauguration...
India rising: Cut-throat competition in its mobile phone market
Monday 26 February 2018For a professional media outlet dedicated to studying IT industry developments, the most important responsibility is to present accurate observations at crucial moments. India will...
Passive component shortages about to ease
Thursday 22 February 2018As the PC and handset industries enter the slow season, the tight supply of passive components from Taiwan-based companies is expected to ease later in the first quarter of 2018,...
Global smaller-size LCD panel shipments to see negative CAGR of 6.9% during 2018-2022
Friday 22 December 2017Global shipments of small- and medium-sized LCD panels are estimated to suffer a negative CAGR of 6.9% during the next five years to reach 1.8 billion pieces in 2022, down from 2.4...
Goodix obtains fingerprint sensor orders for new Huawei devices
Wednesday 18 October 2017Goodix Technology has obtained fingerprint sensor orders from Huawei for the newly-unveiled Mate 10 devices, according to the China-based IC design house.
Qualcomm faces antitrust fine in Taiwan
Thursday 12 October 2017Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has concluded an investigation into wireless chipmaker Qualcomm, finding that certain of the company's business practices are in violation of...

Samsung B570 dual-standby hadnset supporting quad-band connectivity
Photo: Company, Wednesday 22 April 2009