White Paper: Growth Potential for Accessible Premium Tablets in Emerging Markets

Overview: Having faced a substantial surge in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic from work/study-from-home measures, tablets have become more…

India Smartwatch Market’s 121% YoY Growth Restricts Global Decline to 1.5% in Q1 2023

The global smartwatch market continued to contract in Q1 2023 following an 8% YoY decline in Q4 2022. Fire-Boltt surpassed Samsung for the first…

Google Puts Auto Expansion in Top Gear

Google has been making news in the automotive industry this year. First, with the announcement of HD Maps to support assisted driving and then with…

smartwatch manufacturing

Global Outsourced Manufacturing Smartwatch Shipments Rose 15% YoY in H2 2022

Luxshare was the top outsourced smartwatch manufacturer in H2 2022 as it undertook around 40% of Apple Watch production. In Tier-2, Huaqin ranked…

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Colombia’s Q1 2023 Smartphone Shipments Hit Three-year Low

Samsung and Apple resilient to the quarterly drop amid market concentration. Motorola and ZTE suffered the most with double-digit declines. HONOR…

Festive Season Restricts Decline in Indonesia Smartphone Shipments to 8.1% YoY in Q1 2023

The ≤$200 price band grew 2.0% YoY in Q1 2023. Samsung and Infinix’s entry-level smartphones saw double-digit growth YoY. 10.2% of Q1 shipments…

Cloud RAN Platforms – Why Are Vendors Adopting Different Layer-1 Acceleration Strategies?

CSPs are showing an increasing interest in leveraging the benefits of RAN virtualization and cloud-native technologies and vendors are responding to…

ADAS

Huawei ADS 2.0: A Promising New ADAS in Market

Huawei ADS 2.0 brings various improvements, particularly in driving experience and safety. Its enhanced hardware and new AI-powered features set it…

Artificial Intelligence: Regulation Should Target Humans, Not Machines

The recent Congressional hearings in the US greatly increase the prospect of some form of regulation of the AI industry, but this will have to be…

Counterpoint Research - Transsion Quarterly Updates

Transsion Updates – Full Year 2022

Improved Inventory Outlook Paves Way for Revenue Growth in 2023 May 16, 2023 Transsion Holdings reported revenues of RMB 46.6 billion for 2022, down…

Digital Transformation

AI & API Accelerating Digital Transformation Across Verticals

The hype surrounding digital twins is undoubtedly real, with many IoT players actively seeking to leverage the unique benefits of digital twin…

Apple Shines in a Declining Southeast Asia Smartphone Market

Smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia’s five key markets* declined 13% YoY in Q1 2023. Apple’s shipments increased by 18% YoY during the same…

Google I/O 2023 Key Highlights: Generative AI, Search, New Pixel Devices and More

Google held its annual developer conference, I/O 2023, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The company’s biggest event of the…

LATAM Smartphone Shipments Fall 9.9% YoY in Q1 2023, But Most Leading Brands’ Volume, Share Increase

Samsung remained the region’s absolute leader with a 41.7% market share. It was also the leader in all the markets in the region. OPPO’s volume grew…

Counterpoint Research - MEA Smartphone Shipments Fall to Lowest Q1 Level Since 2016

MEA Smartphone Shipments Fall to Lowest Q1 Level Since 2016

MEA smartphone shipments retreated 11% YoY in Q1 2023, or 3% in QoQ terms. The usual macro headwinds continued to weigh on the market, including…

MediaTek Analyst Summit: Focus on Widening Portfolio, Growth in US and Europe

MediaTek expects flat mobile revenue in Q2 2023 with growth in H2 2023 driven by an improvement in the elevated mobile inventory situation. The…

Netgear's M6 Pro Mobile Hotspot Router

Netgear Q1 2023: Revenue Stutters as Inventory Correction Set to Spill Into Q2

Netgear’s Q1 2023 revenue declined 27.4% YoY to $180.9 million. SMB segment revenue declined 2.6%, the first drop in eight quarters. Connected home…

Europe Smartphone Shipments Dropped 23% YoY in Q1 2023; Market at Lowest Levels for Over a Decade

The Europe smartphone market declined by 23% YoY to 38 million units in Q1 2023; the lowest quarterly total since Q2 2012. Samsung maintained…