In Q4 2023, Latin America's smartphone market experienced significant growth driven by economic improvements, festive occasions, and the introduction of new Apple iPhone models.

The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market gained a healthy 17 percent year-on-year in unit growth during Q4 2023 with corresponding revenue increase of 14 percent. Smartphone market has shown renewed strength in the fourth quarter as OEMs and chipmakers looks toward growth after the 2022-2023 industry correction. This report tracks stand-alone and integrated smartphone applications processor unit shipments, revenue market share and ASPs for 18 chip vendors from Q1 2008 to Q4 2023.

The French handset market in Q4 2023 remained flat by shipment basis. Apple captured the number one positions across all local carriers while Samsung stood at the number two positions. Xiaomi maintained the number three ranking while Oppo kept losing its momentum recently.

These reports provide TechInsights latest forecasts on connected TV advertising, subscription TV, and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) by service. Our advertising forecast includes ad spend by linear TV, SVOD, free-ad-supported TV services (FAST), broadcaster VOD (BVOD), search, social, print, audio, cinema, and out-of-home (OOH). The SVOD forecast includes subscribers, revenues, and market share by service.

The 5G honeymoon period is over. Global 5G smartphone shipment growth remained low in 2023 due to economic turbulence. Growth is stagnating due to Chinese softness, and geopolitical and economic turbulence. Apple leads vendors with an over one-fourth share of all 5G shipments globally, followed by Samsung and Xiaomi. By 2025 Apple’s lead will have shrunk as Samsung grows its shipments faster than the other leading vendors. 5G mmWave devices continue to exist mainly in the North American and Japanese markets.

NVIDIA's unveiling of the Blackwell Platform at GTC 2024 has sparked industry-wide excitement, showcasing the company's prowess in AI computing.

The data-center AI chip market expanded beyond anyone’s wild imagination in 2023. NVIDIA tripled its revenue and reached a two trillion dollar valuation in the stock market. The demand for GPUs continued to make headlines with supply being the constraint for the growth.

Global smartwatch shipments declined for the fifth consecutive quarter during Q4 2023, after Q4 2022 marked the first YoY decline since 2016 as the smartwatch space begins to mature and consumers reign in discretionary spending causing a lengthening replacement cycle amid macroeconomic weakness.

Apple is rumored to launch new iPad Pro models with the M3 chip and even new iPad Air models in late March 2024, kicking off a year of iPad updates. These will be important updates to Apple’s portfolio and should be cast in the new light of what is possible with on-device AI to reinforce the messaging that iPads are PC replacements as well as entertainment devices.

The PSA RCC A1 is a head unit designed for PSA Group (now Stellantis) cars. This model was mounted in a 2022 Peugeot 208. It features AM/FM and DAB radio, Bluetooth 4.0, and USB 2.0 connectivity. The head unit supports four 50 W speakers and a rear-view camera.