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Christmas is coming, let’s review last week—

Headlines:

• Harish Kohli, managing director, Acer India indicates that the company has put its smartphone business on hold in India
• Nokia announced that it has filed a number of complaints against Apple in Germany and the U.S
• LeEco has reportedly decided to minimize its activities in India in order to cut costs
• China’s smartphone market will be flooded with unsold phones from this year in 1Q17, cautions Morgan Stanley
• Major phone manufacturers to warn that there might be an increase in phone prices in 2017 because of CNY devaluation
• Jeff Chang, the product manager of Android Wear at Google, has confirmed will launch 2 of its own Android Wear 2.0 smartwatches in early 2017
• ZTE has bought stake in Zhuhai bus manufacturer Guangtong Bus with millions of yuan
• TSMC and Samsung’s 10nm processes have reached lower-than-expected yield rates
• MediaTek Helio X30’s market reaction reportedly has not been very positive so far
• Sigma Intell estimates that, from the view of form factor, AMOLED is focusing on “curved and flexible”, while LCD is upgrading to “bezel-less and full display”
• Innovation Network Corp. of Japan (INCJ) will provide up to JPY75B (USD635M) in financial support to JDI
• SK Hynix will invest KRW3.16T (USD2.7B) in South Korea and China to boost memory chip production

Numbers:

• According to GfK, in 2016, China VR devices sales would reach CNY650M
• Strategy Analytics’ “Top 10 Digital Media Predictions for 2017”
• The Top Seven Technology Trends for 2017, as identified by IHS Markit
• According to IHS Markit, total shipments of AMOLED displays for smartphones set a new record of 101M units in 3Q16
• The global NAND Flash industry will see an annual increase of just 6% in its total wafer capacity in 2017, according to TrendForce
• Smartphones offering resistance against water damage (and other liquids) grew 45.2% YoY in the first 9 months of 2016 in Western Europe, according to IHS Markit