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Smartphones Continue to Drive IC Market

by Tom Allen

Smartphone sales are still an important driver for the global integrated circuit market, according to IC Insights. These devices are rapidly gaining share in the overall mobile phone market – taking 50% of shipments …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Xiaomi’s Half Year Results Below Target

by Helen Vince

Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi, says that a slowdown in sales in the first half of the year in its domestic market were lower than the previous six months. As a result, the company’s full …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 28| Xiaomi

Vendors Seek New Metal Chassis Materials

by Tom Allen

According to reports from Asia, notebook vendors – including Dell and HP – have been inquiring about new chassis materials. The source says that they have been looking into carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic and magnesium-alloy chassis …

New Samsung Modules Cause Apple to Look Again

by Tom Allen

Korea’s Digital Daily claims that Apple is considering a deal with Samsung, as a potential supplier for the Apple Watch’s OLED display. This counters earlier rumours, which said that Apple would retain LG as …

Tags:AMOLED| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 28

State of Android Changes by Region

by Tom Allen

Android remained the USA’s most popular smartphone operating system in the three months ending in May, data from Kantar Worldpanel shows. Google managed to increase the share of its OS by 2.8 percentage points, …

Rising Dollar Cuts IT Spending

by Tom Allen

Worldwide IT spending will fall 5.5% YoY in 2015, says Gartner, due solely to the strength of the US dollar. Spending will reach $3.5 trillion – a 2.5% rise in constant currency terms. The …

Samsung Reclaims Smartphone Crown

by Tom Allen

Samsung lost its leading position in the US smartphone market to Apple in the three months ending in April, according to Kantar Worldpanel. The company passed its Californian rival to take back its first-place …

IDC: Tablets Are Replacing Traditional Client Devices

by Tom Allen

According to IDC, tablets are seeing increasing use as the only device used by employees in enterprise. The majority of enterprise tablet users in the UK, Germany and France still have at least one …

Tags:Europe| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Q1’17 Target for CSOT Production

by Tom Allen

Work on CSOT’s new G6 facilities in Wuhan, China, is proceeding ahead of schedule, say sources in Asia. The company believes that mass-production will begin in Q1’17. The line will produce small-to-medium-size high-end LTPS …

HTC chair Cher Wang and NorthEast United FC owner John Abraham

HTC Will Expand to India

by Milos Pavlovic

HTC sponsors India’s Northeast United football team. Here chair Cher Wang is seen with team owner John AbrahamHTC is the latest company to be linked to production facilities in India, following rumours from Foxconn …

Samsung to Ramp OLED Production

by Milos Pavlovic

Due to its ‘tumbling’ share in the global smartphone market, Asian sources claim that Samsung will ramp up its supply of OLED panels in Q3. Almost half of Samsung Display’s OLED panel capacity has …

Chinese Researchers Suggest Energy Recycling to Raise LCD Efficiency

by Norbert Hildebrand

Long Wen, a researcher at the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues, are suggesting a new type of backlight to increase the power efficiency of LCD modules. …

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