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Friday 27 May 2016
China smartphone AP shipments – 1Q 2016
First-quarter 2016 smartphone AP shipments in China were slow with a sequential decrease of 16.9%.
Friday 5 February 2016
China smartphone AP shipments - 4Q 2015
China's smartphone AP shipments grew 16.1% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2015 mainly thanks to demand for inventory preparation from some vendors and year-end holidays.
Wednesday 27 January 2016
2016 global AP demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report explains the dynamics of the global AP market by analyzing key trends in the market including the shift to 4G, the market strategy of the key AP vendors and GPU providers and the role various applications have in influencing demand. Overall, Digitimes Research forecasts that the global application processor market will grow 8.5% in 2016 to reach 1.78 billion shipments.
Friday 30 October 2015
China smartphone AP shipments – 3Q 2015
According to Digitimes Research, after the low season in first-half 2015, demand for smartphones is expected to grow due to the upcoming shopping seasons in China, Europe and the US in second-half 2015. Due to this factor, many firms began preparing to stock up inventory. In third-quarter 2015, China's smartphone AP demand increased significantly with shipments showing growth of 14.9%.
Wednesday 16 September 2015
The Big Fund - China's next step to becoming a global semiconductor leader
China has been solidifying its semiconductor industry policy objectives through the release of the "National IC Industry Development Guidelines" in June 2014 and "Made in China 2025" in June 2015, with one key financial support program being the National IC Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund), which will be used to help finance production capacity in advanced process technologies. This report analyzes how the Big Fund can affect the China and global semiconductor industry moving forward.
Thursday 13 August 2015
China smartphone AP shipments – 2Q 2015
China's smartphone AP shipments recovered in the second quarter of 2015, registering significant on-year growth after vendors had managed to digest their inventories in the previous quarter.
Thursday 7 May 2015
China smartphone AP shipments – 1Q 2015
Smartphone AP shipments in China grew by 14% on year in the first quarter of 2015 but showed an on-quarter decrease of 19.5%.
Wednesday 11 February 2015
China smartphone AP shipments – 4Q 2014
Smartphone AP shipments to China grew 38% on year and 10.1% on quarter in the fourth quarter of 2014, as the expanding coverage of LTE services helped drive shipments.
Wednesday 5 November 2014
China smartphone AP shipments – 3Q 2014
Digitimes Research estimates China smartphone application processor (AP) shipments will see a 33.8% yearly growth in the fourth quarter of 2014, up 8.7 percentage points from previous quarter. Quarterly growth however will be 9.5%, down 2.2 percentage points from previous quarter.
Thursday 31 July 2014
China smartphone AP shipments – 2Q 2014
The LTE market does not perform as expected in the China market while the TD-SCDMA market declines. Smartphone APs experience quarterly growth of 13.2% in China In the second quarter of 2014, with MediaTek's 3G products achieving nearly a 50% market share. In the second half of 2014, the LTE standard will rapidly replace 3G, 64-bit products will enter the mainstream market but overall shipment growth will be limited.
Wednesday 16 July 2014
Analysis of China's revised domestic semiconductor industry goals
Facing a funding shortage for local IC manufacturers, the China State Council in June 2014 published guidelines to strengthen government support for China's semiconductor industry, while stating the short-, mid-, and long-term goals for the related industry supply chains through 2030. This Digitimes Special Report examines how the revised Central Government guidelines and various local government policy implementations will affect China's the semiconductor manufacturing, IC design, packaging & testing and materials industry.
Tuesday 6 May 2014
China smartphone AP shipments – 1Q 2014
In the first quarter of 2014, shipments by global smartphone application processor (AP) vendors to China experienced only 10.8% annual growth, with a quarter-to-quarter decline of 4.2%.