9-23 Week: 1-Oct long holiday is coming, and this week summary comes with MediaTek 4G/3G shortage, Huawei Leica collaboration, EDO investing in G6 OLED; etc.

2016-09-25

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10/1 long holiday is impending, and before that let’s take a look at this week summary:

Headlines:

MediaTek 4G chipsets will be in tight supply till 2017,
MediaTek 3G chipsets have a huge gap in Aug / Sept 2016, and the gap is as large as 50%
Shanhai Capital will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Analogix for over USD500 million
IBM’s computer chip called TrueNorth is designed to emulate the functions of a human brain
BOE has stopped investing in new LCD projects, but turning to OLED
LG Display is looking into a way of halting part G6 (P6) lines and producing additional OLEDs
General Interface Solution (GIS) announced plans to setup a new display factory in Chengdu
EverDisplay Optronics will invest CNY27.278 billion (USD4.09 billion) to set up a 6G AMOLED factory
Huawei and Leica have created a new R&D center to create better camera modules
Huawei will start to manufacture smartphones in India from next month, in partnership with Flex
BlackBerry may announce an exit from the smartphone hardware market soon