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Q2 tablet shipments were up 22.1% y-o-y at 34.4 million according to the IDC. The results were driven by product refreshes from many top vendors. Volumes are comparable only to pre-pandemic shipment levels and not to the unprecedented sales witnessed during the pandemic. The Q2 results compare favourably with 2Q19 when 32.5 million units were shipped, aided by a product ...

GenAI smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 363.6% y-o-y in 2024 to 234.2 million units, says IDC, representing 19% of the overall smartphone market in 2024. IDC defines GenAI smartphones as devices that feature an SoC capable of running on-device GenAI models by leveraging an NPU with 30 TOPS or more performance using the int-8 data type. The market growth ...

By 2027, the automotive semiconductor market will see significant growth for logic, memory, microprocessors, analogue, opto, discretes and sensors, says IDC. Auto memory revenue will top $7 billion by 2027 to accommodate larger volumes of source code, map data, media content, and log information while high-speed interface technologies such as PCIe and UFS facilitates real-time data processing and instantaneous feedback. ...

The worldwide automotive semiconductor market revenue will have a 7% CAGR from 2023-27 to reach $8.5 billion, according to IDC. “Among the multiple use cases, the segments of smart cockpits and autonomous driving have experienced the most rapid growth, with forecasts showing that they are poised to secure over 50% of the market share by 2027,” says IDC research director ...

Q4 saw the market for devices used in wearables fall 0.9% y-o-y in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q23). The US, Europe and Japan markets fell but shipments grew 1.7% in Asia/Pacific and in China largely due to strong interest in emerging markets. Hearables declined 0.8% year over year for the full year while capturing 61.3% of the overall wearables ...

PC shipments will grow 2% this year to 265.4 million units, says IDC, propelled by the introduction of AI PCs, which will drive the market at a 2.4% CAGRto 292.2 million units in 2028. Growth is expected to slowly ramp up over the year along with the availability of AI PCs, which will coincide with the beginning of a commercial ...

Q4 tablet shipments  fell 17.4% y-o-y  to 36.8 million units, says IDC  – the largest decline in Q4 tablet shipments since 2016. For  2023,  tablet shipments totaled 128.5 million units, a decline of 20.5% compared to 2022 and the lowest annual volume since 2011. Apple retained its top spot in the tablet market, despite a notable decline in shipments for ...

Worldwide spending on telecommunication and pay TV services will reach $1.55 trillion in 2023, an increase of 3.0% over 2022, according to IDC with inflation being the primary driver. The geographic regions seeing above-average forecast revisions are the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Latin America. This is mainly a consequence of hyperinflation happening in countries such as Turkey, Uganda, ...

Q2 notebook shipments grew 21.6% q-o-q to 42.52 million units, although H1 units were down 23.5% y-o-y at 77.5 million units, reports IDC. Q3 notebook shipments are expected to grow 3.8% to 44.13 million units.   Annual notebook shipments are projected to hit 163 million units – a y-o-y decline of 12.2%. In 2024, shipments are forecast to grow 2-5% ...

The OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing) industry grew 5.1% in 2022 to reach $44.5 billion, says IDC, driven by applications such as AI, HPC, 5G, automotive, and IoT. Among the worldwide top 10 OSAT vendors, there are six in Taiwan, three in China, and one in the US, with a total market share of 80.1%. Vendors in Taiwan include ...