Executive Summary: Generative AI for Telcos drives Productivity in 2024

Generative AI brings new opportunities for significantly enhanced automation of customer engagement, operations and software development as well as new revenues. However, while Gen. AI will enable new services in the long run, in the near term it can dramatically lower costs and improve productivity leading directly to better profit margins for telecoms operators.
21May

Tracker: Global Bluetooth TWS Shipments by Region: Q1 2024

Apple remains the shipments leader in Bluetooth True Wireless Stereo (TWS) headsets. AirPod Shipments declined -6% YoY in Q1 2024. Overall TWS headsets growth has slowed down YoY but India is still driving growth. This report looks at the shipment volumes of the top-22 vendors in detail for 2016-Q1 2024. The report offers valuable insights to all designers, vendors, operators, distributors, etc working with TWS headsets.
21May

Q1 2024: Vivo: Slipped out of the Top Five Smartphone Rankings

Vivo’s smartphone volumes and revenue declined to record levels in Q1 2024. It is now out of the top five global smartphone rankings in the quarter. Its financials including ASP’s on a slow downward spiral need a revival. The traditional challenges of geo-diversification, flagship success and competition having an upper hand over it in smartphone segments like 5G, foldables are yet to be addressed.
21May

Canada Smartphone Vendor Marketshare by Operator: Q1 2024

Smartphone shipments in Canada grew in Q1 2024 compared to the year-ago quarter, with just one of the five leading vendors seeing shipments decline 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. The big three vendors in the Canadian market this quarter are Apple, Samsung, and Google.
21May

Prophesee GenX320 Device Essentials Plus

The Prophesee GenX320ES is a monochrome, 1/5-inch optical format, 320 × 320 pixels resolution, stacked back-illuminated (BI) event-based Metavision® image sensor (CIS) for embedded vision and many power-sensitive applications. The Prophesee GenX320ES features non-shared pixel architecture using a gain-boosted log amplifier (LOGA) and pixel-level interconnect for a dynamic vision sensor (DVS).
21May

Deep Dive Teardown of the Huawei 192 Line LiDAR L306 LiDAR Sensor

The L306 debuted as the front LiDAR scanner in the AITO M9 – an all-electric luxury SUV launched under the joint brand of Seres Group and Huawei. Huawei’s new LiDAR is a hybrid solid state with a four-sided rotating prism type. It has a 120° horizontal by 20° vertical field of view with a scan rate of up to 20 Hz. Its maximum detection range is 250 m, or 180 m for objects with 10% reflectivity.
17May