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Guess Who Dominated Premium Android Smartphone SoCs in Q1? 19th May China’s strict COVID-19 quarantine measures have started showing up in our…
Infographic: 2021 | Hearables (TWS)
TWS Market Share by Brand: The global TWS hearables market sales in 2021 grew 24% YoY to 299.6 million units. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic impact…
Infographic: 2021 | Smartwatch
Smartwatch Market Share By Brand, 2021 vs 2020 The global smartwatch market reached 127.5M units in 2021, with shipments of 42.4M in the fourth…
iPhone 13 Helps Apple Break Many December Quarter Records
Apple posted a record December quarter which included record revenues, record installed base, tremendous growth in all business units (exception:…
TWS Specs See Rapid Additions, Improvements
TWS hearables specifications have undergone big changes within a short span of time. According to a Counterpoint Research report that compared…
Apple’s Record-Setting Q4 Will Spill Over Into a Great 2021
Apple registered a record-setting growth in the final quarter of 2020. All business units saw 17%-41% growth and total revenue was a whopping $111…
Apple iPhone Sales Suffer Due to COVID-19; Services and Wearables Come to the Rescue
Apple showed it is resilient and has revenue diversification during these extraordinary COVID-19 times. The company saw iPhone volumes decline 7% but…
Audio and Mixed Reality in 2020, ARIA Summit Highlights
AR in Action was once again held this week at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts. The small leadership summit on augmented reality gathered many industry…
Apple Quarterly Results Eclipse Expectations; iPhone Drives the Quarter
Apple results in their largest quarter of the year were above expectations. The big driver was iPhone sales. Many believed this would be a…
Syntiant’s Speech Recognition Chip Certified for Alexa
Syntiant, an AI chip start-up based in Irvine, California, received the news on August 7 that its Neural Decision Processors (NDP), NDP100 and NDP…
Hearables – Next Big Thing in Tech
When we talk of technological innovation in wearables, one of the fastest growing areas is hearables. The trend among modern hearables is going…
Building Better AR Products: ARIA Summit Highlights
ARIA stands for Augmented Reality in Action and is a leadership summit held yearly at the MIT Media Lab. The summit is sponsored by Kopin, a leader…
Mobile XR : The Future of Extended Reality (AR/VR/MR)
The next generation of connectivity (5G, WiFi 6, 802.11ay) is poised to enhance the way we interact with the current crop of devices. Extended…
The AR Segment is Set to Grow in the Next 4 Years
The AR hardware segment is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 125% between 2018 to 2022 due to rising adoption of AR smart glasses by enterprises.…
Apple Fall Launch 2018: Apple Watch Series 4 Steals the Show
Apple, the first company to touch a trillion dollar market cap, announced a series of new additions to its premium portfolio of consumer smart…
Q2 2017: Apple: Operating Margins Dip to 2009 Levels
Apple reported its calendar Q2 2017 (Apr-Jun) results and on the 10th Year Anniversary of iPhone, the overall results followed the typical cyclic…
Audio Tech: Cinderella’s Going to the Ball
With smartphones becoming the primary source of music for many consumers, handset OEMs have been steadily improving the audio quality of their…
WWDC 2017 : Powerful New Hardware, Augmented Reality and Machine Learning
Apple's annual WWDC 2017 kicked off today in San Jose, California. Apple’s annual WWDC 2017 conference was centred on getting its legions of…