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Jeffrey Mathews
| Feb 23, 2021
The race for superior smartphone photography application is getting exciting every year as OEMs are looking to feature their smartphones with the latest CIS tec...
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Chris Taylor
| Feb 17, 2021
The digital connected future will arrive sooner than most of us realize, with difficult to fathom consequences that will depend how we respond as ...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Feb 11, 2021
After seeing five consecutive years of shipment decline, the tablet applications processor (AP) market has finally turned the corner in 2020, driven by remote w...
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Chris Taylor
| Feb 11, 2021
Just eight days after MediaTek announced its first millimeter-wave capable 5G modem, Qualcomm has again upped the ante with the X65, the fastest wireless modem ...
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Jeffrey Mathews
| Feb 10, 2021
We recently published an insight on the Top Trends in Smartphone Component Technology for 2021 and Beyond where we note that smartphone technology is witnessing...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Feb 03, 2021
After experiencing fifteen consecutive quarters of shipment decline, the smartphone applications processor (AP) market returned to growth in shipment terms in Q...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Feb 02, 2021
The baseband market has seen sluggish growth in recent years as rapid price erosion in 4G and stagnant smartphone market affected the industry. That is beginnin...
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Eric Higham
| Feb 01, 2021
As we enter 2021, 2020 must rank as one of the most turbulent, unpredictable years in recent memory. The COVID-19 pandemic slowed global economic growth and sen...
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Eric Higham
| Feb 01, 2021
With suitable acknowledgement to the Grateful Dead, the new year provides a good time to reflect on 2020 and see if the compound semiconductor industry will "ke...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Jan 28, 2021
In the middle of the pandemic, the trade-war, the stagnant device market and the potential game-changing semiconductor acquisition, the year 2020 saw record-bre...
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Jeffrey Mathews
| Jan 07, 2021
The smartphone camera technology is now entering the next phase of innovation as the focus is now on achieving next-level smartphone photography. CIS vendors ha...
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Chris Taylor
| Oct 27, 2020
Executive Summary
In September, 2020, the government of China announced the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Phase II in the amount of $28....
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Jeffrey Mathews
| Oct 13, 2020
The evolution of today's smartphone camera capabilities is driven by the significant strides made in pixel technology by component vendors, ensuring high-resolu...
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Jeffrey Mathews
| Sep 15, 2020
The smartphone industry has been witnessing constant innovation in terms of product offerings focused on the imaging capabilities of the device. This is purely...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Sep 14, 2020
In a $40 billion deal, NVIDIA has agreed to buy Arm from Softbank and the company promises to preserve Arm's independent business model while trying to expand i...
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Chris Taylor
| Sep 11, 2020
Automobile makers Ford, Honda, Daimler AG and Tesla, joined by chip makers Intel and MediaTek, called for a rehearing of the FTC case against Qualcomm in what i...
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Chris Taylor
| Sep 09, 2020
Menlo Micro (Irvine, CA) has developed a high-reliability, metal contact MEMS switch that the company claims does not suffer from stiction. The voltage-ac...
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Jeffrey Mathews
| Aug 29, 2020
Overview
In 2016, Apple loaned Japan Display Inc. (JDI) $1.5 billion to enable JDI to construct the Hakusan plant and further ensure Apple a stable supply of L...
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Chris Taylor
| Aug 06, 2020
5G was off to a great start in the first year, 2019, and the year 2020 is shaping up be the year of 5G. Qualcomm, the cellular baseband processor and cell...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Aug 06, 2020
5G was off to a great start in the first year itself and the year 2020 is shaping up be the year of 5G. Qualcomm, the baseband market leader, has established it...
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