Global smartphone industry wholesale revenue grew 2% YoY thanks to the higher smartphone wholesale price which increased 2% YoY in Q3 2023, while smartphone shipment volume marginally went down 0.3% YoY.

We were invited to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui this year, where the company revealed its upcoming computing platform, Snapdragon X Elite, powered by the new Oryon CPU.

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Samsung was the leader in foldable display smartphone shipments in Q3 2023, followed by Huawei and Motorola. Shipments grew YoY but major markets North America and Western Europe declined heavily ongoing geopolitical and economic turbulence and Samsung's softness.

The global smartphone image sensor market grew annually to cross USD 3 Billion in Q2 2023. The market saw demand for high-end CIS products that aided in the growth.

Renesas’s RA8 family of MCUs is the first on the market with Arm’s latest Cortex M85 CPU. Performance beats existing MCUs built on the Cortex M7.

MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 shakes up the CPU configuration previously typical of smartphone processors and nearly doubles the AI performance of its predecessor.

After discontinuing work on its first design, RISC V startup Ventana is readying its Veyron V2. The company plans to offer it as a 32-CPU chiplet and as a licensable core.

How much longer do you think this downturn will last? Actually, the downturn has been over for some time. It just doesn't feel that way, because Perceptions lag market turns by 6 to 12 months ... call it recognition latency.

Listen to Asif Anwar’s recent presentation he delivered during EdiCon. In this 30-minute presentation he covers: Automotive Market Outlook, Automotive Semiconductor Outlook, Impact of Macroeconomic Trends.