8-5 Week: Another month has passed! This week summary we have Didi Chuxing and Uber, Tsinghua Unigroup and XMC, Qualcomm and OPPO, Samsung, Apple, etc.

2016-08-05

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Another month has passed. This week summary:

Headlines –

Didi Chuxing merges with Uber’s Chinese business unit
Sony aims to launch flagship products only in India
Gionee’s sub-brand IUNI has filed for bankruptcy
Qualcomm and OPPO have entered into a new 3G and 4G patent license agreement for China
MediaTek announced consolidated revenues of NTD72.53 billion for the 2Q16
27 chipset industry main players join together and form “China High End Chipset Alliance”
Huawei, Xiaomi, Meizu, Gionee, OPPO to launch smartphones with hyperboloid or curved display screen
Samsung said it is assessing the 2-metal chip-on-film from LG Innotek
Sony will reduce its equipment investment for CMOS image sensors
Tsinghua Unigroup has acquired a majority stake in XMC, forming “Yangtze River Storage Technology”
Tesla and leading rooftop solar installer SolarCity announced that they had agreed to a merger
Samsung indicates mid-end phones may get iris scanning technology later once costs are controllable

Trends –

According to Gartner, the DRAM market will remain in oversupply until 2Q17
According to Gartner, 3D NAND production difficulties are likely to continue deep into 2017
According to CNNIC, till June 2016, China Internet users have reached 710 million people
According to IDC, worldwide tablet shipments reached 38.7 million in 2Q16 according to IDC

Products –