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Global Smartphone User Penetration Forecast by 88 Countries: 2007 - 2029
TechInsights predicts global smartphone user base will grow 12% from 2024 to 2029. North America and Western Europe will lead in smartphone penetration rate during this period, while Africa Middle East will display the most significant growth momentum.
VLSI Technology Symposium – Intel describes i3 process, how does it measure up?
VLSI Technology Symposium – Intel describes i3 process, how does it measure up? Share This Post Intel released details of their i3 process technology. The The i3 process will offer multiple variants targeted at different applications: i3 base process
End Market Demand for Advanced Packaging
In our latest spotlight series, we delve into the technology advancements that are revolutionizing the datacenter industry.
Samsung 176L QLC 3D NAND Internal Waveform Analysis
This report presents an Internal Waveform Overview containing the program, read, and erase waveforms of the Samsung 176L 1 Tb QLC 3D NAND flash memory device (die markings: K93KGO8J0C).
Survey Plus Teardown of the Vivo Y03 V2332 Smartphone
The Vivo Y03 comes with a 6.56-inch TFT touchscreen display offering a resolution of 1612 × 720. Display frequency 90 Hz. The phone has one front 5 MP camera and two rear cameras, a 13 MP wide-angle camera, and a 0.08 MP depth camera. Inside the Vivo Y03 we can find one 3.91 V 4880mAh lithium polymer battery made by Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
Lara Chamness
In her role as Senior Sustainability Analyst, Lara Chamness provides quantitative and qualitative analysis for TechInsights’ Sustainability practice, with a primary focus on expanding the Semiconductor Manufacturing Carbon Model.
Evolution of Standard Cell Libraries: Advancements and Innovations
Standard cell libraries are indispensable in modern semiconductor design, providing foundational blocks of Boolean logic functions essential for chip implementation.
Teardown of the Vivo X Fold3 Pro Foldable Smartphone
Join TechInsights as we teardown the Vivo X Fold3 Pro, featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a cutting-edge camera system. Discover detailed insights into its design, battery technology, and unique features.
Rapid Increase in Microsoft’s Emissions Threatens Future Supply Deals
Multi-billion-dollar AI investments from Microsoft are seemingly coming on a weekly basis, suggesting reducing semiconductor carbon footprint is not only an ethical concern, but also big business.
Apple A-Series and M-Series Apps Processor Market Model Q1 2024: New AI Applications to Boost both Silicon Content and Costs
Apple's A-series and M-series applications processors (AP) shipment volume increased only 1 percent year-on-year in Q1 2024 while AP revenues gained 8 percent in the same period due to higher average chip costs. Apple's A-series APs are used in iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod Touch and HomePod while the M-series APs are used in iPad, MacBook, Macs and the Vision Pro devices.
Insight: Tablet Price Tier Forecast – Productivity Demand Shifts Market toward Premium End
The tablet market experienced a temporary renaissance during the pandemic when customers purchased any computing device available to perform work or school tasks remotely. Although a new reality has set in with lower total market volumes, revenue has recovered faster as prices are elevated from inflation as well as a more premium mix.
Insight: Automotive Semiconductor Industry Revenue Outlook 2024-2026
With unused inventory available to support their vehicle production needs, OEMs and Tier 1s have continued to pull back from ordering semiconductors in the first quarter of 2024 and this was reflected in the TechInsights Auto Semi Index shrinking in the first quarter of 2024.
Advanced Entry and Start System Supply and Fitment Database
This database has collated the various developers and suppliers of known OEM- and dealer-fitted Passive Entry Go, Passive Go and long range two-way communication systems, listed by vehicle model assembled since 1999 and by known future models.
Analysis: Smartphone Memory Market Share Q1 2024
This report provides analysis of the market data report “Smartphone Memory Market Share Q1 2024: Revenue Grows Over 50% YoY, SK Hynix Gains Share”.
Forecast: VR Headsets by Price Tier 2014-2029
TechInsights expects the VR headset market to be worth just under $6.7 billion and grow to an installed base of 32 million units by 2029. Lower price tier VR devices accounted for the majority of shipments and users until 2017, but higher tier VR units take an increasing share as the market evolves toward devices which offer higher quality experiences.
Insights: Wafer Cost and Pricing falling Q1 2024
TechInsights’ Semiconductor Manufacturing Economics (SME) has wafer production costs for hundreds of specific processes at fabs around the world. Our team conducted analysis of wafer costs over time for a selection of companies using SME data. Data was for both Discrete/Power semiconductors and ICs. Although SME includes frontend and backend costs, this analysis focused on the frontend costs up until sawing/dicing into individual dies.
6.18 Online Festival in China: Smartphone Sales Down 2% Annually
TechInsights Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) channel estimate that the smartphone sales during China’s second largest online shopping festival 6.18 (June 18th) in 2024 declined 2% year-over-year (yoy) to 13.1 million units, however, due to rising ASPs, smartphone market value almost remained flat yoy at CN¥ 62.3 billion (US$ 8.6 billion), overperforming the total online GMV (Gross Merchandise Volume) which shrank yoy by 3%.
Forecast: VR Headsets by Device Type 2014-2029
TechInsights expects the VR headset market to be worth just under $6.7 billion and grow to an installed base of 32 million units by 2029. Console and standalone VR devices will become increasingly important as the market evolves toward headsets which offer higher quality experiences.
