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Friday 6 November 2020
GF, Soitec announce RF-SOI wafer supply agreement
Globalfoundries and Soitec have announced a multi-year supply agreement for 300mm radio frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) wafers.
Tuesday 3 November 2020
4G SoCs, handset PAs in short supply at distributors
The supply of 4G SoCs and PA components for both 4G and 5G models are falling short of demand, but may ease by the end of 2020, according to IC distribution sources.
Thursday 30 July 2020
UMC expects flat 3Q20
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects its wafer shipments and ASPs to stay flat sequentially in the third quarter of 2020, with its capacity utilization rate remaining...
Tuesday 7 July 2020
Soitec announces POI substrates business agreement with Qualcomm for 5G RF filters
Soitec has announced a business agreement with Qualcomm Technologies on the supply of piezoelectric-on-insulator (POI) engineered substrates for 4G and 5G RF filters. Soitec's piezoelectric-on-insulator...
Tuesday 23 June 2020
China IC sector to thrive on 5G, AIoT, EV applications
The year 2020 may become the watershed in the evolution of global supply chains with regionalization and demassification in high gear posing major changes to the world, and the semiconductor...
Monday 22 June 2020
Highlights of the day: Qualcomm devotes efforts to defend 4G chip market share
The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting 5G deployments at chipmakers, telecom carriers and end markets. Qualcomm previously...
Monday 22 June 2020
Qualcomm ramps up 7nm wafer production at TSMC, sources say
Qualcomm has increased its 7nm chip orders placed with TSMC looking to regain its 4G SoC market share, according to industry sources.
Thursday 21 May 2020
China smartphone AP shipments, 1Q 2020

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Thursday 14 May 2020
China smartphone market and industry, 1Q 2020

China smartphone market

Tuesday 21 April 2020
Huawei/HiSilicon to commercialize new NB-IoT chip solution in 4Q20
Huawei/HiSilicon will commercialize a new NB-IoT chipset, dubbed Boudica 200, by the end of 2020, which will support 3GPP R15 standards and offer lower latencies and more integrated...
Thursday 5 March 2020
China smartphone AP shipments, 4Q 2019

China smartphone AP

Friday 7 February 2020
DSS to be used for enterprise applications for 5G in 2H20, says Digitimes Research
To improve 5G spectrum's usage efficiency, 3GPP has brought up several solutions with dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) being one of the major technologies expected to be used when transitioning...
Tuesday 4 February 2020
China smartphone AP shipments to slip in 1Q20, says Digitimes Research
Smartphone AP shipments in China reached a total of 197 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019, down 5.9% on year and 7.7% sequentially with volume for the whole year arriving...
Monday 3 February 2020
Chipmakers to see delayed handset replacements in China
Handset replacements are facing increasing postponement pressure in the China market due to the coronavirus outbreak, posing a big challenge to first-quarter 2020 revenue performances...
Thursday 30 January 2020
China smartphone market declines 15% in 4Q19, says Canalys
China's smartphone market declined 15% to 85.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019, which marked the 11th consecutive quarterly decline and hit the market's lowest level since...