12-2 Week: Sorry for another delay. Weekend is never enough, then already Monday. Let’s have a look at last week — MediaTek, Huawei, OPPO, vivo, etc.

2016-12-04

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Sorry for another delay. Weekend is never enough, then already Monday. Let’s have a look at last week:

Headlines:

MediaTek has announced its plans to create a family of integrated chips for the automotive market
MediaTek announced the launch of 2 upgraded mobile processors — Helio X23 and Helio X27
Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 processor is allegedly still planned for release in 2H17
TSMC is planning to roll out a 12nm process node to further enhance its competitiveness in the 28nm
ChipMOS Technologies and Tsinghua Unigroup announced an agreement to form a joint-venture
Amazon and Intel have announced that working on reference designs for smart connected speakers
Mobileye and Delphi announced a partnership to build an affordable self-driving car platform and now Intel is joining
Huawei, OPPO and vivo have decided to form an alliance, to assure OLED panel supply via domestic production
Panasonic has developed LCD panels with a contrast of one million-to-one and display quality equivalent to that of OLED
Huawei has unveiled the world’s first long-lifespan graphene-assisted Li-ion
Research director of IHS Technology indicates that glass body definitely is a trend for smartphone
Jolla’s Sailfish OS now certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’
After a May 2016 announcement that the Nokia brand was returning, a formal licensing agreement has been finalized with Nokia, HMD Global which is mostly staffed by Nokia executives

Numbers:

According to Digitimes Research, China-based makers will together ship 2.4M AMOLED panels in 2016 and shipments will increase to 2.6M units in 2017, 3.5M units in 2018 and 4.8M units in 2019
UBI estimates that the market share of OLED technologies in the smartphone display market will rise from 16% to over 62% in 2016
Research director of IHS Technology Kevin Wang lists the 2017 smartphone target shipment of Huawei, OPPO and vivo—Huawei 170M, OPPO 160M, and vivo 150M
Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to reach 1.45B units with a YoY growth rate of 0.6% in 2016 according to the latest forecast from IDC
According to Counterpoint Research, global mobile handset hardware segment generated USD10.2B in operating profits during 3Q16