Insight: UHD TV Forecast Q1 2024 - Samsung Focuses on Upscaling in Absence of Native 8K Content

While large screen TVs are all the rage, 8K is not, with 409K units shipping globally in 2023. While global 8K shipments will continue to grow year-over-year it is not until the end of the decade that we will start to see an adequate number of 8K TVs shipping (20.7 million in 2029) that they will begin building a sufficient installed base to be relevant in the marketplace. This Insight examines what TV brands, like Samsung, are doing to help boost 8K TV sales.
21May

Memory Pricing Report – May 2024

This monthly update delves into the dynamic and volatile pricing landscape of mainstream DRAM and NAND memory, offering an examination of pricing trends over the past three months and projecting developments for the upcoming year.
21May

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