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Tuesday 21 March 2023
India's local electronics manufacturers begin to emerge amid rising PC demand
Following mobile phones, smartwatches, and wireless headphones, the India-based contract manufacturer Optiemus Electronics is expanding its manufacturing portfolio to include laptop...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
GaAs foundries mull price cuts to entice orders for handset PAs
GaAs (gallium arsenide) foundries are considering cutting their quotes to land power amplifier (PA) orders from RF IDMs, which are looking to replenish their inventories, according...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Handset sales turn brisk in Taiwan
Sales of handsets in the Taiwan market have been brisk recently, defying the industry's conservative outlook for a sluggish performance on the ground of high market penetration and...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Automotive, industrial IC demand remains brisk
Despite persistently weak demand for PCs, handsets, and consumer electronics devices, the automotive and industrial sectors continue to see robust momentum, with supplies of certain...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Nvidia finds strength in AI era
Nvidia, which possesses key AI and GPU software and hardware capabilities, has been thrust into the spotlight over the last two years, driven by the growth of the metaverse and the...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
TSMC sees Nvidia step up pace of orders
TSMC has seen a ramp-up in orders from Nvidia for the GPU vendor's A100 and H100 chips, as well as lower-spec A800 series explicitly designed for the Chinese market, according to...
Monday 20 March 2023
Thailand smartphone market declines by 21% in 2022 to 16.6 million units, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the Thai smartphone market declined by 21%, ending 2022 with 16.6 million shipments, marking the lowest number of units...
Monday 20 March 2023
Global NAND flash revenue to continue slide in 1Q23
NAND flash revenue will continue to decline into the first quarter of 2023 despite lower drops in memory ASPs, according to a recent TrendForce report.
Monday 20 March 2023
Are the world's tech behemoths getting more bang for their lavishly splurged R&D bucks in 2022?
R&D is the bedrock upon which an enterprise's commercial triumphs are built. Any disappointing outcome or inefficiency originating therefrom can spell out the company's economic...
Monday 20 March 2023
Asia Pacific security spending to grow 16.7% in 2023 with government taking lead, says IDC
According to IDC's latest Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide, spending on security hardware, services, and software in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, is expected to reach...
Friday 17 March 2023
Global EV market grows 55% in 2022 with 59% of EVs sold in China
Worldwide sales of electric vehicles (EV) increased 55% to 10.1 million units in 2022, according to Canalys. China was by far the largest EV market last year, accounting for 59% of...
Friday 17 March 2023
Compound semiconductor critical to expected 5G mmWave demand spurt
5G, a technology deemed as fundamental to Industry 4.0, began to see large-scale commercial application around the world in 2020. However, 5G still faces problems related to difficulties...
Friday 17 March 2023
Chenbro Micom expects to see shipments pick up substantially in 2H23
Server chassis specialist Chenbro Micom expects its shipments to server customers to remain flat in the first half of 2023 before picking up significantly in the second half.
Friday 17 March 2023
Xiaomi to mimic Samsung to regain smartphone market share in India
Xiaomi, which has maintained its top position in India's smartphone market for four years, lost to its arch-rival Samsung Electronics in the last quarter of 2022, and Xiaomi is looking...
Thursday 16 March 2023
DDR5 penetration stalls, delaying demand for related PMIC
Since PCs and servers are adopting DDR5 memory more slowly than anticipated, related conventional power management IC (PMIC) demand is unlikely to increase with improved visibility...