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Smartphones shipped to the China market shrank to only 62 million units in the first quarter of 2023, down 12.4% sequentially and 7.2% on year, but the volumes in the second quarter are expected to stay at about the same level as in the first, according to DIGITIMES Researchs latest figures from the report covering Chinas smartphone market.

With the Ukraine war, global inflation, and geopolitical tensions, consumer electronics sales plunged, which further caused a decrease in semiconductor sales. Given the weakened demand for chips, DIGITIMES Research projects a 9.2% decline in global foundry industry revenue for 2023.

Due to the rapid advancement in communication technology, the commercialization of 6G is expected to take place by 2030, marking a significant reduction in the innovation cycle.

The methods for humans to interact with and operate robots are gradually being simplified and the keen development of large language models (LLM) is expected to drive up the popularization of the natural language interaction method, which is intuitive and easy to work on, and DIGITIMES Research expects home-use robots to be the first to adopt the method.

Despite the milestone of achieving over one billion users worldwide at the end of 2022, 5Gs massive commercialization so far is still limited only to a few markets, while many countries and regions mobile users have not exhibited a keen intention to upgrade to the new communication standard, according to DIGITIMES Researchs latest study of the 5G industry.

The global top-5 notebook brands, not including Apple, saw their combined shipments slip around 30% from a month ago in April because a high comparison base in March hiked by the brands robust short-term orders, according to DIGITIMES Researchs latest notebook shipment figures from the April update report.

Despite issues such as the global economy showing no sign of recovery and the slow season having limited tablet brands shipment in the earlier half of the first quarter of 2023, tablet brands are starting to place short-term orders at the end of the quarter to replenish their channel inventories. This is expected to benefit overall tablet shipments worldwide to see only a minor drop from a quarter ago, according to DIGITIMES Researchs latest figures from the tablet report.

China-based smartphone brands shipments are expected to make a recovery in the second quarter, stimulated by robust demand from the 618 shopping festival, with an on-year decline to also shrink to less than 10%, according to DIGITIMES Researchs latest figures from the China smartphone industry report.

Reducing charging time by increasing the power that chargers deliver is seen as critical to overcoming the range anxiety of EV owners, and compared with a high-current solution, increasing the voltage is a more feasible way for upgrading fast charging and will shape the EV industry for years to come, according to DIGITIMES Research.

Global notebook shipments (not including detachable models) performed better than originally expected, shrinking only 9.5% sequentially and less than 35% on year in the first quarter of 2023, and the volumes will grow back 9% sequentially in the second quarter, according to DIGITIMES Researchs latest numbers from the report covering the notebook industry.