Taiwan-headquartered electronics manufacturer Wistron, a major Apple supplier, is investing $24.5 million in a new factory in Vietnam's northern province of Ha Nam, according to a report published by a local media, the Investor Vafie Magazine.
Sony is poised to witness a significant surge in demand for CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) used in smartphones as the traditional peak season for smartphone shipments approaches. This uptick in demand is expected to benefit Sunnic Technology & Merchandise, a Taiwan-based distributor of Sony's chip products.
Leading mobile phone lens maker Largan Precision does not expect market conditions in 2024 to be better than in 2023, according to company chairman and CEO Adam Lin.
The Chinese semiconductor industry, including the CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) segment, is finding more room for development in the domestic market with the sudden rise of the Chinese smartphone and Electric Vehicle (EV) industries.
Samsung Display (SDC) and LG Display (LGD) have reportedly received mass production approval for Apple's iPhone 16 Pro OLED panels simultaneously. This development is anticipated to assist LGD in closing the gap with SDC in the iPhone OLED supply chain.
The advent of the AI smartphone era has marked a new chapter in the competition for Application Processors (AP) that determine smartphone performance, with the 3nm mobile AP war already underway.
There have been reports that Samsung Electronics' 3nm manufacturing process is ready and will be used on its newest Exynos flagship processor platform, which is expected to be released in the second half of this year.
EDA giant Synopsys has completed the tape-out of a high-performance mobile SoC design using Samsung Electronics' 3nm GAA (Gate-All-Around) wafer foundry process. This chip is set to be used in Samsung's Galaxy smartphones in 2025.
Huawei has recently launched its Pura 70 series smartphones featuring its in-house developed Kirin 9010 application processors made using SMIC's 7nm N+2 manufacturing process.
As smartphone sales plateau compared to the rapid growth seen 5-10 years ago, Taiwan's optical solutions providers, primarily serving the smartphone market, are seeking new growth engines, such as exploring new end applications and clientele to mitigate the risks associated with reliance on a single application or customer.
Apple Inc. surprised investors with a decent beat on quarterly revenue from China, countering months of data that showed a quickening decline in iPhone sales.
Leading handset chip vendors Qualcomm and MediaTek are unlikely to be alarmed by Huawei's fast rebound in China's smartphone market, according to industry sources.
The Economic Times quoted sources saying that Tata Electronics, which joined the ranks of Apple suppliers in recent years, is now engaged in internally developing very sophisticated and highly precise CNC tools essential for manufacturing these iPhone casings.
Huawei Technologies Co.'s latest smartphones carry a version of the advanced made-in-China processor it revealed last year, independent analysis revealed, underscoring the Chinese company's ability to sustain production of the controversial chip.
Taiwan-headquartered nFore has captured the attention of European and US automakers, with some visiting the company's site in private. The traction gained as carmakers found a significant portion of nFore's Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions when tearing down competitors' Telematics-Box (T-Box) and analyzing their software.
Speculation has recently circulated in the mobile phone market that brand vendors including Apple and Samsung Electronics have revised downward their shipment projections for 2024.
Samsung Electronics is expected to maintain the dual-track application processor (AP) system for its next-generation Galaxy S25 series of smartphones in 2025, entailing the use of both Samsung's proprietary APs and Qualcomm mobile SoCs.
Optical device maker EZconn is seeing strong revenue and gross profit growth in the first quarter of 2024, thanks to the robust demand from broadband infrastructure construction in the US and bandwidth demand boosted by artificial intelligence (AI).
Although the mobile phone industry usually enters off-season in the second quarter, upstream suppliers are currently gearing up to maintain stable operations in the second quarter, benefiting from the completion of inventory clearance in distribution channels. Starting from the third quarter, the mobile phone industry is preparing to welcome simultaneous launches of multiple models by brand vendors and the return of orders.
