11-11 Week: It is another week fill with tons of information, let’s quickly review and move on to another week—LeEco incidents, all sorts of flexible / full-display info, etc.

11-11 Week: It is another week fill with tons of information, let’s quickly review and move on to another week—LeEco incidents, all sorts of flexible / full-display info, etc.

2016-11-13

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It is another week fill with tons of information, let’s quickly review and move on to another week—

Headlines:

LeEco incidents—LeEco CEO Jia Yueting admitted the holding company has been expanding too fast, and requires reflection; LeEco denied the news of “LeEco owes suppliers more than CNY10B, and the said suppliers already stop supplying components to LeEco”; LeEco is focusing on building more healthy financial operation; car was a “highest priority” and would continue
A series of info about flexible display, full display or bezel-less display—Huawei is allegedly working on a concept phone with ‘quad-edge screen’; Samsung and LG are believed to plan to launch foldable smartphones in 2017; Samsung is believed can produce foldable devices in a small quantity in late 2017; Apple allegedly will release new 5” and 5.8” iPhones with curved, bezel-free designs in 2017; JDI has revealed Full Active panel technology to support flexible display in 2019
Lattice Semiconductor is acquired by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners
SMIC is proceeding with plans to build South China’s first 12” fab at an existing facility in Shenzhen, China
Shanghai HLMC has started construction of 12” wafer plant featuring 28nm-to-14nm technology in Shanghai, China
SK Hynix will start mass-producing the 48-layer 3D-NAND chips from later in Nov. 2016
Toshiba to build a new plant in Yokkaichi Operations in Mie, Japan, for production of 3D Flash memory
Samsung System LSI will commercialize its fingerprint recognition sensor chips in 2017
Huawei‘s Richard Yu indicates the company wants to become the world’s 2nd-largest smartphone maker in 2 years
Lenovo will no longer market phones under its own brand name; all future handsets will be ‘Moto’ phones

Numbers:

According to Digitimes Research, global market value for biometrics will increase from USD14.6B to USD31.4B in 2020
Lenovo announces 1M units of the Moto Z series has been sold worldwide
Huawei announced that its Huawei P9 smartphone has sold 9M handsets since the phone was unveiled in Apr. 2016