May 16, 2019
AMD Q1 2019: Revenue Dips with Decline of GPU Sales; Margin Increases as EPYC and Ryzen Picks Up Market Share
AMD reported a 23% year-on-year (YoY) decline in revenues in Q1 2019, making it the third consecutive quarter of declining revenues. AMD’s topline…
May 10, 2019
Emerging Memory Supplier YMTC to Challenge Global Leaders such as Samsung, SK Hynix & Western Digital in Next Five Years
In 2018, the global NAND flash market reached US$58 billion. Mobile phones and PCs account for 42.1% and 16.2% of the overall NAND market demand,…
February 22, 2019
India Imported $13 Billion Worth of Mobile Phone Components in 2018
New Delhi, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Seoul, London, Buenos Aires February 22nd, 2019 The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology’s Phased…
February 12, 2019
TSMC Benefitting from Greater Adoption of 7nm Technology
The fortunes of TSMC, a leading global foundry service provider based in Taiwan, have been linked to Apple for a long time. The company is the…
January 7, 2019
Could Germany Reduce Its Auto Industry’s Reliance on Batteries from Asia?
The EU wants to foster home-grown companies to compete with Chinese and Korean competitors and to take battery cell production into its own hands.…
December 27, 2018
Camera Surveillance Market Moving Towards the Edge
Over the last 10 years, the surveillance camera market has witnessed drastic changes from analog, closed-circuit cameras, to all-digital IP-based…
December 23, 2018
Teardown and BoM Analysis for Xiaomi Pocophone F1
POCO F1 is the first phone from POCO, Xiaomi’s sub-brand. Xiaomi decided to release a mid-to-high end model to take on increasing competition from…
December 17, 2018
BoM Analysis for iPhone XS
Overview: The report is a breakdown analysis of the Bill of Materials covering the components that constitute the Apple iPhone XS. This will help in…
November 13, 2018
5G Race is On: Intel 5G Modem Based Devices and iPhones Coming in 2020
Intel yesterday finally unveiled its latest 5G modem solution which will help it to stay relevant in the 5G race. Intel aims to power a plethora of…
November 11, 2018
Meet Counterpoint at C-Touch and Display Shenzhen 2018
To demonstrate the latest technological development in the smartphone industry and lead the future integration of key technologies with innovative…
November 7, 2018
China Driving the Drone Ecosystem – Deep Dive Vendor and Market Analysis
Overview: As a representative industry of “Made in China”, drones, also known as UAVs, have developed rapidly in recent years and is gradually…
October 17, 2018
The Rise of In-House Application Processor Design
Overview: The application processor (AP) or the system-on-chip (SoC), is the most critical component in a smartphone. This is what makes your…
October 5, 2018
Contenders for Lithium-Ion’s Crown
Although most of the hardware in consumer electronics devices such as smartphones has improved beyond recognition over the past twenty years, the…
October 4, 2018
Subtlety is the Future of Biometric Authentication
Biometric security standards have been evolving ever since the fingerprint scanner came into focus with Apple's iPhone 5S. Adoption was rapid and the…
September 17, 2018
Apple and eSIM – Control, Convenience and Commercial Opportunities
We have talked and deep-dived on the potential of eSIM across different connected things (see here) from automotive to drones (see here), to IoT (see…
September 1, 2018
Huawei Kirin 980: First Look
In the world of mobile SoCs, the heavyweight players from a market share point of view are all providers of merchant solutions. The standout leader…
August 28, 2018
Dual Camera Smartphones Are Going Mainstream: Explosive Growth in 2018
Almost 42% of smartphones sold globally in July 2018 sported two or more rear camera (dual+) sensors and this dual+ camera sensors adoption in…
August 14, 2018
Automotive Camera Sensors Market to Boom: Parking Sensors to Dominate
Introduction Growing customer preferences for in-vehicle comfort and ease of driving is leading to digitalization of passenger cars. Features such as…