According to DIGITIMES Research, South Korea has built a common standard platform for 500kg next-generation mid-size satellites, suitable for various payloads such as electro-optical cameras, high-spectral resolution instruments, imaging radar, and microwave sensors. This will be advantageous in shortening development time and reducing costs.

India and Vietnam are to become the biggest beneficiaries of smartphone supply chain migration out of China, according to DIGITIMES Research analyst Luke Lin, who estimates that India will produce 45-50% of Apple's iPhones by 2027, on a par with China, where 80-85% of iPhones were produced in 2022.

DIGITIMES Research estimates that about 18.3 million foldable smartphones are shipped in 2022, with Samsung accounting for 75% of the volumes. The total shipments are expected to rise to 27.8 million in 2023, with Samsung's market share decreasing to 66% due to competition from other major competitors, but the Korean brand will continue to be the industry leader, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest study over smartphones.

The US-China trade war, decarbonization, and geopolitical factors have been the driving forces behind a partial migration of server production lines out of China to Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and North America. The growing presence of Southeast Asia and North America in the server manufacturing sector is especially significant.

Smartphone shipments to the Chinese market amounted to 58.4 million units in the third quarter of 2022, falling 20.5% from a year ago to a new low since third-quarter 2020, as a result of China's lockdown restrictions and weakening market demand, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures from China Smartphone Market report.

Of the global tablet shipments in 2022, models equipped with OLED panels will account for 6.2%, up 3.4pp from a year ago, while Samsung Electronics, Huawei and Lenovo will be the number-1 to number-3 OLED tablet brands worldwide, respectively, in the year, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures.

Global top-5 notebook brands, excluding Apple, saw their combined shipments slipped 6% on month and close to 50% on year in November because of worsening global inflation and the fact that increasing interest rates have seriously undermined the economies of both mature and emerging markets.

The number of mobile broadband services users worldwide has seen a slower increase than that of fixed network users in the past three years because of the stay-at-home economy induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the trend prompted several 5G telecom operators to commercialize their fixed wireless access (FWA) services to compete for customers with fixed networks, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest study.

Chinese panel makers including BOE, TCL CSOT, and Visionox have been acting keenly to expand AMOLED capacities, following the footsteps of Korea-based Samsung Display and LG Display, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest study.

With silicon-based computing gradually constrained by the bottleneck of Moore's Law, many IT companies have started turning their development focuses to AI computing which requires a new architecture to resolve its performance and power consumption issues. Another focus is quantum computing, which is completely different from the existing silicon-architected systems, but has strong capability in resolving complicated problems, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest study.

The quality of optical systems has a high influence on users' immersion experience when using VR, AR, or MR. With the birth of Micro LED-based micro-displays in 2022 and the popularity of optical waveguide technologies among optical combiner developers, the combination of the two technologies is expected to become the mainstream specification for AR head-mounted devices (HMDs), according to DIGITIMES Research's latest study.

China remains the largest manufacturing industry in the world, making its industrial robot market a segment full of potential. Although around 70% of industrial robot suppliers in China are not domestic companies, they continue expanding capacities in the country despite concerns toward China's instability amid geopolitical and trade issues, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest study.