Chipset Samsung has begun mass production of Exynos 7570 targeting entry-level market – built with Samsung 14nm process, featuring 4×Cortex-A53 cores, a fully integrated Category 4 LTE 2CA modem with the usual Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, FM Radio, and GNSS options. (Android… Read more ›
Chipset MediaTek’s international corporate sales General Manager Finbarr Moynihan, where he claims that MediaTek had successfully claimed 30% of the market by the end of 2015, which should extend to 35~40% by the end of 2016. (GizChina, My Drivers) MediaTek’s… Read more ›
It is another busy week, and let’s take a look at this week summary: Headlines: Meitu has reportedly filed an application with Hong Kong regulators on for an initial public offering (IPO) It is rumored Huawei is preparing a new… Read more ›
Chipset With more system vendors engaged in the development of mobile SoC solutions in-house, the market for mobile chips is set to expand a further USD10 billion, according to Digitimes. IC foundries, and EDA and IC design service companies are… Read more ›
Chipset The production value of PCB products rolled out by Taiwan-based makers in China and Taiwan is expected to grow 8.8% sequentially to NTD144.2 billion (USD4.54 billion) in 3Q16, according to the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) of Taiwan’s… Read more ›
Chipset According to Digitimes, a pull-in of orders for smartphone-related chips has heated up and filled TSMC’s 28nm process capacity with utilization rate reaching 110% in 3Q16. Ye, orders for baseband chips from Intel are slowing down, which will likely… Read more ›
Chipset According to IC Insights, for 2016, the pure-play foundry market is expected to increase by 9% and greatly outperform the growth rate of total IC market, which is forecast to drop by 2% this year. 2016 the “Big 4”… Read more ›
Chipset Since 2Q16 MediaTek has been facing issue of tight-supply for its mobile phone processors. OPPO and vivo are thought to be one of the factors, thanks to their high shipment. Now there is rumor OPPO and vivo are shifting… Read more ›
This is a simple report summarizing the shipment of mobile devices—smartphones, feature phones and tablets—based on IDC’s latest number (2Q16). The reasoning behind some of those numbers cannot be explained in detail here, but will be explored in another report. Global… Read more ›
Chipset Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp is in the final stages of negotiations to acquire U.S. chipmaker Intersil Corp for as much as JPY300 billion. (TechNews, Yahoo, Bloomberg, 4-Traders, Asia Nikkei) Mobile phone processors have been in tight-supply situation, and because… Read more ›
Camera New leak suggests that Apple upcoming 4.7” iPhone would also feature a camera with optical image stabilization (OIS). (Phone Arena, Redmond Pie, GFAN, TechWeb) Memory A DRAM production slip-up has forced a Korea-based vendor to scrap 30,000-50,000 wafers from… Read more ›
Chipset 2015 Intel unveiled a reference design for 2-in-1 tablets using the company’s Skylake processors. Now the company is providing tips for making thinner 2-in-1 tablets. (Digital Trends, CN Beta, Liliputing) Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, together with General Electric (GE)… Read more ›
It is another busy week, and let’s take a look at this week summary: Headlines Intel announced partnership with ARM, also Joule, Aero, Euclid, and Alloy Nvidia is switching its next-gen graphics processing production to Samsung’s 14nm node Samsung Display… Read more ›
Chipset Samsung and LG have gained an increased interest in the automotive market, and while both companies seem to aim at achieving similar goals of becoming respectable auto part suppliers, their strategies are very different. (Android Headlines, article) TSMC has… Read more ›
Chipset Nvidia has unveiled a trio of laptop GPUs based on its new “Pascal” chip architecture, the GeForce GTX 1060M, 1070M and 1080M. This facilitates using a VR headset like the HTC Vive or the Oculus Rift on a reasonably… Read more ›
Chipset KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects Apple iPad to follow a conservative hardware evolution going into 2017, with Apple readying 3 next-generation models largely similar in design to existing units. Apple “A10X” SoC made using TSMC’s 10nm process is… Read more ›
