As we navigate through the dynamic landscape of the lidar market, characterized by technological innovation, regulatory challenges, and shifting industry dynamics, it becomes critical for stakeholders to remain agile and adaptive.

Automotive semiconductors grew to 12% of total semiconductor sales in 2023, up from 10% in 2022.

Samsung shipped 60.0 million smartphones globally in Q1 2024, down 2% YoY, blaming the intensified competition in emerging markets such as Asia Pacific and Central & Latin America.

TechInsights' 2023 server market analysis shows that the world spent $120 billion on over 13.5M servers in 2023.

The Motorola Moto G Play XT2413-2 3rd Gen is the latest model in the Moto G Play series, succeeding the 2nd Gen Moto G Play. This smartphone boasts a Qualcomm Octa-Core Snapdragon 680 Applications/Baseband Processor built with 5 nm technology, as well as 4 GB Mobile LPDDR4X SDRAM from Samsung and Samsung’s 3D TLC V-NAND Flash Memory with a capacity of 64 GB. The previous model, on the other hand, was equipped with MediaTek’s Helio G37 with 12 nm technology.

This report summarizes major ASTC 3.0 related announcements at the 2024 National Association of Broadcasters Show (NAB). Companies mentioned include LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL, Hisense, Mediatek, iWedia, Realtek, ADTH, Stavix, Velo, Zapperbox, and Zinwell

This workbook breaks down the revenue from the sales of servers in 2023 by vendor. In 2023, 13.6M servers were shipped globally, with a combined value of $121B. With cloud providers selling access to infrastructure, and hyperscalers providing services from vast server estates, its perhaps not surprising that the role of original design manufacturers (ODMs)—which ship custom servers to large entities—is becoming more relevant.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an integral part of a modern smartphone. Edge AI computing is pushing more processing on-device as vendors use more AI in several areas. Virtual assistants such as Siri, Bixby and Google Assistant are already becoming commonplace and on-device AI is increasing their abilities. Generative AI has emerged to turbocharge AI capabilities.

The television manufacturing business is changing. Long a high volume (units sold), high gross revenue, low margin business, the development of connected TVs and free ad-supported TV (FAST) services, is fundamentally changing the TV manufacturer business model, at least for those manufacturers that have an in-house (i.e., first-party) TV operating system (TV OS).