
China smartphone market and industry, 3Q 2026
According to DIGITIMES observations and analysis, smartphone memory contract prices in the first half of 2026 often rose 50% to 80% quarter-over-quarter.
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According to DIGITIMES observations and analysis, smartphone memory contract prices in the first half of 2026 often rose 50% to 80% quarter-over-quarter.

According to DIGITIMES, Agentic AI, AI server expansion, cloud service provider (CSP) in-house CPU ramp-up, and replacement demand for general-purpose servers will lift global server CPU shipments to 52.6 million units in 2027, up 45.7% year-over-year, with x86 and Arm architectures rising 35.3% and 79.1%, respectively.

DIGITIMES says the most closely watched model in Apple's high-end iPhone 18 lineup, launched in September 2026, is the long-anticipated first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo.

DIGITIMES observed that cloud service providers (CSPs) such as Google and AWS will sharply ramp up self-developed ASICs in 2027, lifting high-end cloud AI accelerator shipments to 25.951 million units, up 64.5% year-over-year.

DIGITIMES notes that China continued to advance smart glasses policies from the central government to local governments in 2026, driving both enterprise production and consumer purchase subsidies.

Continued advances in top-tier LLM capabilities, coupled with the potential for business automation enabled by agentic AI, are prompting major North American cloud providers, Neo Clouds, and leading AI labs to accelerate AI data center buildouts in 2026.

DIGITIMES has observed that since Tesla equipped the Model 3 with a traction inverter integrated with SiC power modules in 2018, the application of SiC power devices in the electric vehicle (EV) sector has gradually expanded, prompting suppliers to aggressively ramp up capacity.

End-to-end autonomous driving has become the mainstream technology path, and the inference demand created by Physical AI in autonomous driving systems is, in turn, reshaping automotive system-on-chip (SoC) design.

DIGITIMES observes that major memory suppliers posted record-high revenue in the second quarter of 2026, with yearover-year growth remaining in the triple digits. Driven by AI demand, SSDs and LPDDR are emerging as key competitive
battlegrounds.

Although the global 5G mobile communications market is still growing in 2025, higher 5G user penetration has not necessarily translated into equivalent revenue growth for telecom operators, while annual growth in mobile data traffic has continued to slow.