CONNECT WITH US
Global supply chain: Mobile, telecom, computing
Mobile, telecom, computing trends
IN THE NEWS
Monday 26 June 2023
China smartphone shipments back to double-digit growth in May
China's smartphone shipments jumped 22.6% in May, accelerating sharply from previous months in a positive sign for the country's struggling mobile device industry.
Monday 26 June 2023
Short-term orders become new normal for PC industry
Short-term orders have grown to become the main trend within the notebook industry as downstream brand vendors still feel uncertain about demand from the end market in the second...
Monday 26 June 2023
Tesla's first supercomputer to enter production in July and cut reliance on Nvidia
Despite Tesla CEO Elon Musk's strong criticism of the downside of artificial intelligence (AI), Tesla's AI team recently announced on Twitter the progress of Tesla's custom supercomputer...
Monday 26 June 2023
Compal sees end of customer inventory adjustments
Inventory adjustments at Compal Electronics' notebook customers have come to an end, according to Martin Wong, president of the Taiwan-based ODM. The company expects the second half...
Monday 26 June 2023
Distributive utilizes idle computing power to trim cloud costs
Demand for computing power will continue to grow as AI and other technologies evolve. Canadian startup Distributive has developed a new distributed computing technology that uses...
Monday 26 June 2023
Worldwide spending on IoT forecast to surpass US$1 trillion in 2026, says IDC
Worldwide spending on the Internet of things (IoT) is forecast to be US$805.7 billion in 2023, an increase of 10.6% over 2022, according to a new IDC Worldwide Internet of Things...
Monday 26 June 2023
Broadcom announces availability of second-generation Wi-Fi 7 wireless connectivity chips
Broadcom has announced sample availability of its second generation of wireless connectivity chipset solutions for the Wi-Fi 7 ecosystem, spanning Wi-Fi routers, residential gateways,...
Monday 26 June 2023
Qualcomm, Sony team up for next-gen smartphones
Qualcomm has extended its partnership with Sony to provide future smartphones powered by Snapdragon platforms, according to the chipmaker. The companies agreed to collaborate on future...
Monday 26 June 2023
Compal stays keen with investments in Taiwan
Seeing 2023 remains a challenging year, Compal Electronics will continue pushing its three major investments in Taiwan: the smart innovation park at its headquarters and the medical...
Monday 26 June 2023
Oppo chip design failure casts shade over Chinese brand firms' chip pursuit
Oppo's IC design team, Zeku, abruptly ceased operations, shocking the semiconductor industry. There are rumors that, with the exception of Oppo's top executives, the Zeku team did...
Monday 26 June 2023
Taiwanese IC distributors target high-end market as China expands 5G base stations
Chinese telecom operators recently opened bids for 5G base stations, which were won by China-based companies. In order to avoid competition with China's supply chain, Taiwanese manufacturers...
Monday 26 June 2023
India roundup: Micron to build ATMP facility in India by 2024-end as US-India strengthen bilateral semiconductor ties
US-based tech giants announced a flurry of investments, especially in the semiconductors that will boost India's semiconductor ecosystem as the US is looking to help India develop...
Wednesday 21 June 2023
IoT sector grows amid economic headwinds, system integration matters in exports
Despite global economic downturns, the IoT (Internet of Things) industry has managed to grow significantly as enterprises have not softened their investments in the sector amid the...
Wednesday 21 June 2023
Japan accelerates quantum computing hardware and applications progress
Compared to Europe and the United States, which announced the earliest commercial quantum computers in 2011, or China, which announced the progress of quantum computers in 2017, Japan...
Wednesday 21 June 2023
Car and smartphone makers in China face dilemma with market crossover
When product autonomy is considered in the long run, it's not surprising to see carmakers and smartphone manufacturers in China vying to cross over into each other's market. However,...