Tracker: United Kingdom Smartphone Shipments & Marketshare by Model: Q1 2024

The United Kingdom is Western Europe's second largest smartphone market. It delivers high volume and revenue to device makers, component suppliers, and operators. Our extensive report shows the top-50 best-selling smartphone models in the UK in the first quarter of 2024. Besides popular Apple and Samsung flagships, which brands and models have made their way into the bestsellers and what is the secret behind their success?
27May

NAND Technology Roadmap

The Memory 3D NAND technology roadmap has been updated. Industry leading 3D NAND companies such as Samsung, SK hynix, Micron, Solidigm, KIOXIA, Western Digital, YMTC, and MXIC have their own plan for the future of high-speed and high-density storage applications. Upcoming new and advanced 3D NAND technologies including multi-stacking, hybrid bonding, and package solutions are also described on the roadmap.
27May

Q1 2024 – Xiaomi: Solid Growth in Emerging Markets

Xiaomi posted the annual smartphone volume growth for three quarters in row in Q1 2024, outpacing the global market with a 34% YoY growth rate. The robust momentum in India and emerging markets primarily led to the solid growth. However, increasing macroeconomic uncertainties, heightened competition, and potential inventory correction would cap the future growth.
27May

Japan Handset Vendor Marketshare by Operator: Q1 2024

Japan handset shipments declined by -6% annually in Q1 2024. As usual, Apple continued to capture top positions through all local Japanese operators including Rakuten Mobile. Our extensive report has tracked the major handset vendors' marketshare by quarter at all major operators in Japan, including NTT Docomo, Softbank and KDDI from Q1 2012, and we started to track Rakuten Mobile, a new MNO launching the services since Q2 2020.
27May

Tracker: Smartwatch Vendor Market Share by Region: 2024 Q1

Global smartwatch shipments, while stabilizing to a just 1.5% YoY decline, have fallen for the sixth consecutive quarter during Q1 2024, after Q4 2022 marked the first YoY decline since 2016 as the smartwatch space begins to mature and consumers reign in discretionary spending causing a lengthening replacement cycle amid macroeconomic weakness and geopolitical uncertainty.
27May

The Apple M-Series: Evolution from the M1 to the M4

Discover the Apple M4 design blocks and how they compare to previous M-Series processors, like the M1, M2 and M3. The trendline for the M-Series die size is shown, alongside the changes to the CPUs, GPU and NPU cores. The L3 cache size is estimated at 8MB, as seen for the previous processors (M1, M2 and M3).
27May

Deep Dive Teardown of the Ray-Ban RW4006 Glass 2

The Ray-Ban Wayfarer RW4006 are smart glasses that include two speakers in the temples to create a comfortable open-ear audio listening experience without the need for earpieces. It features the Qualcomm SAR1115P-000-AB Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 processor.
23May

Deep Dive Teardown of the Honor Magic 6 Pro BLV-AN16 Smartphone

The Honor Magic 6 Pro was equipped with five cameras, with two placed on front, and three on rear of the device, just like its predecessor the Honor Magic 5 Pro. The main difference can be found in the design of the Periscope Telephoto Camera, which in the Magic 6 Pro has a higher resolution of 180MP (in comparison to 50MP in Magic 5 Pro).
23May

Forecast: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems 2022-31 - Q2 2024 - Powertrain, Body, Chassis & Safety

This Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) market forecast shows strong growth, driven by legislation, NCAP regimes and a push towards more automated driving. Key changes in this update include a boost to future discrete ADAS demand due to slower adoption of centralized architectures than was previously expected. The market for ADAS technologies is thus now expected to grow at a CAAGR of 13.4% over 2023 to 2028, with content-per-vehicle increases boosting demand significantly more than the growth in vehicle production.
23May