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Unveiling the Future: Key Themes and Takeaways from MWC 2024
Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona showcased a myriad of innovations and industry trends, setting the stage for the future of technology. Let's dive into the highlights from each day of this year’s influential event.
PFAS in Semiconductor Manufacturing: A Major Sustainability Challenge
As next-gen silicon chips and circuits evolve, the challenge of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) emerges. These heat, water, and oil-resistant chemicals are widespread in semiconductor manufacturing—but at what cost?
Fixed and Wireless Trends
Discover key insights into the 2024 Fixed and Wireless Trends report, including analysis of the telecom ecosystem, anticipated industry trends, major technological advancements, and implications for broadband growth rates.
Samsung to be the Pro AI Generative Smartphone Leader in 2024
A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) powered smartphones has appeared. This generation is set to turbocharge smartphone applications like search, photography, and a host of others. Generative AI will drive these changes as powerful new smartphones with high-end chipsets power these applications.
Global Smartphone Monthly Shipments (Sell In), Sales (Sell Through) and Inventory Variance by Vendor: February 2024
TechInsights tracked that global smartphone shipments (sell in) and sales (sell through) grew 8% YoY and 4% YoY in January 2024 respectively, indicating the market has reached bottom and is under the recovery phase. Apple maintained the top place by both shipments and sales.
Avago AFEM-8234 Tx Path Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator (FBAR) Filter Process Analysis
This acoustic wave filter (AFF) report contains the results of the process analysis of the Avago FBAR filter die from the transmit path of the AFEM-8234 RF front end module (FEM). This module was removed from the Apple iPhone 15 Pro A2848 5G smartphone. The AFEM-8234 is a Mid/High Band LNA-PA module with integrated duplexers (MHB L-PAMiD).
OECD Mobile Broadband Price Benchmarking Q4 2023
The Q4 2023 update of the OECD Mobile Broadband Price Benchmarking service is now available for download and includes over 1,100 mobile broadband tariff plans from more than 100 providers across 38 OECD countries. The OECD Mobile Broadband Price Benchmarking Service uses the OECD 2017 baskets.
Canada Smartphone Vendor Marketshare by Operator: Q4 2023
Smartphone shipments in Canada grew by 1% in Q4 2023 compared to the year-ago quarter, with two of the five leading vendors seeing shipments improving year-on-year. Canada is a mature market in which replacement sales make up most smartphone volumes, limiting growth. Nonetheless, Canadian consumers are once again upgrading their smartphones.
Tech Giants in the Automotive Industry 2024: Cloud Service Provider Trends
Automakers are increasingly turning to cloud service providers (CSPs) for a wide range of business, operational, and engineering-related capabilities. Several CSPs that provide solutions to companies in the automotive industry, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, and their relationships with companies in the industry, including customer relationships, are covered in this report.
Smartphone Image Sensor Shipments by CIS Model with Specifications: Q4 2023
The global smartphone image sensor market experienced a 12% annualized growth in shipments in Q4 2023. The market volumes recovered with the seasonal demand for high-resolution CIS products and correction of the inventory. GalaxyCore GC02M1 and Samsung S5KJN1 were the most shipped CIS products, together achieving over 200 million units during the quarter.
Smartphone Image Sensor Market Share Q4 2023: Sony Semiconductor Leads with Record Revenues
The market for smartphone image sensors rebounded with a revenue growth exceeding 10% in Q4 2023. The correction in the market enabled stocking momentum and combined with seasonal CIS orders for premium smartphones, drove the market revenue in the quarter.
Global Bluetooth TWS Shipments by Region: Q4 2023
Apple remains the shipments leader in Bluetooth True Wireless Stereo (TWS) headsets. AirPod Shipments declined YoY in Q4 2023. Overall TWS headsets growth has slowed down YoY. India is driving growth. Geopolitical turbulence, inflation and looming recession affected shipments negatively. The report offers valuable insights to all designers, vendors, operators, distributors, etc working with TWS headsets.
Global Bluetooth TWS Shipments, Revenues and ASP by Price Tier by Vendor: Q4 2023
Apple remains the shipment and revenue leader in Bluetooth True Wireless Stereo (TWS) headsets in Q4 2023. Apple's share is being eaten by rivals from India and China. Premium-tier remains as the most valuable but Entry-tier rises to the top in shipments.
Global Pro AI Technologies Forecast to 2028
A new generation of AI powered smartphones have appeared. They are set to turbocharge smartphone applications like search, photography, and a host of other applications. Generative AI will drive these changes as powerful new smartphones with high-end chipsets power these applications.
Survey Plus Teardown of the Apple iPhone 15 A3089 Smartphone
There are two new chips manufactured by USI used in the design –WiFi6E/Bluetooth 5.3 Module and U2 UWB Module with 7nm process node die provided by TSMC. There are 15 RF Tuners in the RF design of the iPhone 15 A3089, all of them are the same as those found previously in the iPhone15 A3090 and A3092 models analysis.
Survey Plus Teardown of the Xiaomi Redmi K70 23113RKC6C Smartphone
The older Redmi K60 is equipped with a 5500 mAhbattery. Charging is done through 67W fast wired charging, and it also supports 30W wireless charging. The newer Redmi K70 has a smaller 5000 mAhbattery capacity, but it utilizes an upgraded fast charging technology, allowing for 120W charging speed.
Deep Dive Teardown of the Supermicro CloudDC 1U SuperServer SYS-611C-TN4R Server
The motherboard, although having a different form factor, shares most of its main components with the motherboard from Supermicro’s GPU SuperServerSYS-749GE-TNRT –the previous server computer TechInsights analyzed, most notably the Baseboard Management Controller and the Platform Controller Hub (motherboard chipset).
Public Cloud Shipment, Installed Base, and Market Size Forecast Q1 2024: CPUs, Accelerators, and Memory
This workbook provides a forecast on shipments, consumption, installed base, and market value of the processors and accelerators used by public cloud providers (IaaS and PaaS) to deliver their services.
