Europe's highest court sides with Intel – ends lengthy antitrust case October 24, 2024 The EU Court of Justice ruled in favour of Intel on Thursday, bringing an end to a nearly 20-year antitrust battle between the U.S. chipmaker and EU regulators who accused Intel of engaging in anti-competitive practices to undermine its rival, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Global PC shipments declined 1.3% in 3Q24 October 10, 2024 Worldwide PC shipments totalled 62.9 million units in the third quarter of 2024, a 1.3% decline from the third quarter of 2023, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. This decline comes after three consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth for the PC market.
Q1 smartphone production increases, Q2 decline expected June 18, 2024 TrendForce reports an 18.7% YoY growth in Q1 smartphone production due to last year's low base. However, a 5–10% decline is forecasted for Q2 amidst high inflation and elevated inventories.
Microsoft unveils first Qualcomm-powered Windows laptops May 23, 2024 Microsoft is going hard into AI-powered laptops – it's just announced a new range of Surface products that come with a Qualcomm chip, which can run some AI tasks without an internet connection.
IDC: PC sales down 2.7% in 4Q23, but 'worst is over' January 12, 2024 Global shipments of PCs fell for the eighth successive quarter, says new analyst data, but growth is expected in 2024.
Intel: dozens of PC makers are using the 'meteor lake' chip December 18, 2023 Dell, Microsoft and Lenovo are among the PC giants to be shipping machines containing Intel's newest AI-configured Core Ultra microprocessors.
Qualcomm considering plan to package PC chips in India October 27, 2023 Giant US semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm has approached Indian conglomerate Tata Group about a deal to package Snapdragon X Elite PC chips.
EU hits Intel with €376.36 million fine September 25, 2023 The European Commission has re-imposed a fine of around EUR 376.36 million on Intel relating to an antitrust case some two decades ago.
Global LCD monitor shipments see 7.4% QoQ decline in 1Q23 June 15, 2023 TrendForce reports that in the first quarter of 2023, global shipments of LCD monitors fell 7.4% QoQ to 28.8 million units, marking a YoY decline of 20.5%.
Gartner says global PC shipments declined 30% in 1Q23 April 19, 2023 High inventory and low demand led to a second consecutive quarter of historic year-over-year decline, says Gartner.
PC pain persists in Q1 2023 – Apple saw a 40% shipment drop April 11, 2023 Weak demand, surplus inventory, and a deteriorating macroeconomic environment all contributed to the dramatic drop in traditional PC shipments during the first quarter of 2023, says the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Who spends the most on semiconductors? February 07, 2023 Unsurprisingly, we find several major OEM manufacturers of PCs and smartphones among the biggest semiconductor buyers.
LCD monitor shipments to return to pre-pandemic levels for 2023 January 10, 2023 According to TrendForce’s latest analysis of the market for LCD monitors, device shipments are estimated to reach around 135 million units for 2022, showing a YoY drop of 7%.
Lenovo opens European manufacturing facility June 15, 2022 Lenovo has officially opened the doors to its first in-house manufacturing facility in Europe.
Top10 semi buyers increased chip spending by 25.2% in 2021 February 02, 2022 The semiconductor shortage and the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global OEMs' production in 2021, but the top 10 OEMs increased their chip spending by 25.2% and accounted for 42.1% of the total market, according Gartner.
GaN solutions to hold major share of fast charge market in 2025 October 26, 2021 Apple recently unveiled its 140W MagSafe charger for the new MacBook Pro, marking the first time that Apple is adopting GaN technology. As such, 100+ watt fast charge products have thus entered a period of growth, in turn accelerating the adoption of third-generation semiconductor devices in consumer applications, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations.
Global top 10 SSD module makers by market share October 25, 2021 The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to severe delays in manufacturing and logistics. In particular, governments worldwide began implementing border restrictions in 2Q20 to combat the ongoing health crisis, leading to a sudden decline in order volumes for channel-market SSDs, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations.
Global smartphone production declines by 11% QoQ to 307M units for 2Q21 September 09, 2021 The recent surges of COVID-19 cases in India, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries have adversely affected the global smartphone market in terms of production and demand, according to TrendForce.
Leading China OEM suppliers, 2020 - the top 10 list August 12, 2021 The emergence of the new coronavirus in late 2019 and the still-ongoing pandemic it caused led to an unprecedented global economic downturn. Virtually every nation on the globe felt its effect, but some appear to be recovering faster than others, reports New Venture Research.
GaN IC company Navitas to go public May 10, 2021 GaN Power ICs specialis, Navitas Semiconductor, has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with Live Oak Acquisition Corp. II, a publicly-traded special-purpose acquisition company. The transaction, which values the combined entity at $1.4 billion, will result in Navitas becoming a publicly-traded company.
From ninth place in the global ranking to exiting the market April 08, 2021 TrendForce’s investigations finds that LG manufactured merely 30.6 million smartphones last year, which represented a 2.4% market share. The Korean company took ninth place in the global ranking of smartphone brands by production volume in 2020.
Apple and Samsung remain the top chip buyers in 2020 February 12, 2021 Gartner says that the top 10 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) increased their semiconductor spending by 10% in 2020, and accounted for 42% of the total market, up from 40.9% in 2019.
Global notebook shipment expected to reach 217M units in 2021 January 07, 2021 Owing to the stay-at-home economy brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, not only did yearly notebook computer shipment surpass 200 million units for the first time ever, but the 22.5% YoY growth was also the highest on record, says TrendForce.
Kingston, ADATA, Tigo take the top among global SSD module makers October 29, 2020 The total worldwide shipments of branded SSDs bound for the channel (retail) market in 2019 reached 131 million units, showing an increase of almost 60% from 2018, according to TrendForce's latest investigations.
Lenovo to set up new in-house manufacturing plant in Hungary September 30, 2020 The Hong Kong-based technology company is planning to open a new in-house manufacturing facility in Hungary in during the Spring of next year.
Notebook shipment expected to soar past 180 million units in 2020 September 10, 2020 Demand for notebook computers (NBs) across the globe experienced an explosive growth in 2Q20 due to an increase in working from home and distance education demand generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations.
The dominoes keep falling – Flex halts shipments to Huawei May 28, 2019 EMS provider Flex, formerly Flextronics, has reportedly halted production at its China plant in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.
Samsung & Apple buys 19.5% of all semiconductors January 29, 2018 Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2017, representing 19.5 percent of the total worldwide market, according to Gartner.
Qualcomm signs MoU with four major Asian companies January 29, 2018 Lenovo, OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi each sign a memorandum of understanding with Qualcomm Technologies for the multi-year purchase of RF front-end solutions.
Fujitsu, Lenovo and DBJ form PC JV November 02, 2017 Fujitsu Limited, Lenovo Group and Development Bank of Japan Inc. (DBJ) are forming a joint venture which will focus on the research, development, design, manufacturing and sales of Client Computing Devices (CCD) for the global PC market.
DRAM module industry recorded 12% drop in sales revenue for 2016 September 06, 2017 DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, reports that the global sales revenue of DRAM modules for 2016 totalled USD 6.9 billion, amounting to a decline of about 12 percent compared with the result of the previous year.
YoY gain of 3.6 percent for 2Q/17 notebook shipments August 16, 2017 Market research firm TrendForce reports that the global notebook shipments for this second quarter registered a sequential quarterly increase of 5.7 percent and a year-on-year increase of 3.6 percent, totalling 39.96 million units.