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Datang Telecom Technology has announced that it has agreed its subsidy Leadcore Technology to transfer part of the supporting assets related to LC1860 chip, LC1881 chip related technology and supporting assets to Morningcore Technology, a subsidiary of the company’s controlling… Read more ›

After the production of HiSilicon Kirin chips is discontinued, the supply pattern of smartphone SoCs changes in 2021, forming a competition pattern between MediaTek and Qualcomm duopoly. On the demand side, vendors overstocked in the 1H21. Under the circumstance of… Read more ›

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has confirmed that his company is considering using Intel’s foundry to possibly make some of its chips. Intel is now a direct competitor with Nvidia on both the CPU and GPU fronts, but he has also… Read more ›

The global Android smartphone AP (Application Processor) / SoC (System on Chip) sales grew 3.6% YoY in 2021, according to Counterpoint Research. MediaTek led the Android smartphone SoC market in 2021 with a 46% share, followed by Qualcomm with 35%.… Read more ›

The market is fearing inventory pile-up due to long foundry lead times although on several key factors, chipset shipments look to be tracking not far off the handset shipment actuals: (1) Qualcomm mix over volume. Qualcomm’s entire 4Q21 YoY mobile… Read more ›

Intel has announced the first phase of its plans to invest as much as EUR80B (USD88B) in the European Union over the next decade. Intel announced that it would invest billions of euros into its research and development (R&D) facilities… Read more ›

According to Brand Finance, AMD is identified as world’s fastest-growing semiconductor brand, brand value up 122% YoY. In addition, AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is highest-ranked female chief executive in Brand Guardianship Index 2022 of world’s top 250… Read more ›

According to Strategy Analytics, Apple, Intel, MediaTek, Qualcomm and Samsung LSI captured the top-five tablet AP revenue share rankings in 3Q21. Apple maintained its tablet AP market share leadership with a 60% revenue share, followed by Intel with 13% and… Read more ›

After dropping 2% in 2019, the foundry market logged a strong 21% rebound in 2020 as application processor and other telecom device sales into 5G smartphones acted as strong drivers. The foundry market continued its growth surge in 2021, registering… Read more ›

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported impressive yields for its next-generation chip manufacturing technology. Dubbed as the N3e, this technology is an upgrade over TSMC’s first iteration of the N3 node, which expects to shrink down some transistor dimensions… Read more ›

OPPO’s President, Liu Bo has revealed that the Find X5 series sales are relatively higher than its predecessors. He has further added that the company has also placed 10M orders for its newly self developed NPU MariSilicon X with TSMC.(Gizmo… Read more ›

MediaTek has expanded its processor lineup with three new chips — Dimensity 8100, Dimensity 8000, and Dimensity 1300 — and a range of devices powered by the trio will be launched throughout 1Q22 / 2Q22. Dimensity 8100 / 8000 are… Read more ›

Qualcomm has announced its latest next-generation modem for smartphones, Qualcomm Snapdragon X70 5G. The Snapdragon X70 can offer up to 10Gbps downlink speed and a peak 3.5Gbps upload speed, ensuring maximum performance. It has an AI-based channel-state feedback and optimization… Read more ›