January 12 morning news, market research firm Kantar released the latest report said that in the last three months in November, iPhone in the US smart phone market share increased by 6.4%.

The report also shows that Kantar tracked in the nine major markets, Apple iOS operating system in seven of which the market share has increased.

Kantar said the holiday shopping season early stage sales performance to help the three iPhone models swept the top three, ahead of Samsung smart phones.

Reported that, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 6s is the period of the most popular models on the US market, the share of the three iPhone and up to 31.3%. At the same time, the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge are ranked fourth and fifth. Overall, Samsung in the US smart phone market share of 28.9%. opa861idbvrg4

In addition, during the iPhone in the UK market share is achieved the most significant increase. This time period, iPhone in the UK market share increased by 9.1%, mainly due to the decline in the share of Windows smartphones.

The share of iPhones in the markets of Australia, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK and the US grew during the period, compared to 6 of the countries except Italy, where Android accounted for Share has declined. Even in Italy, the Android smartphone’s share of growth is only less than half of the iPhone.

But in China and the German market, iPhone share of the market share has declined. In China, due to the local brand flagship mobile phone brought about by the strong competitive pressure, during the iPhone share decreased by 5.4%; in Germany, iPhone share also fell 3.2%, compared to the share of Android smartphone growth 6.5%.

However, the news from China is not all negative. Kantar pointed out that, iPhone has become the best-selling mobile phone in urban areas in China, the OPPO R9 pushed to the second. kr-1300sc

According to Kantar released a month after the data show that Apple achieved more than two years, the strongest growth, market share rose to the highest since January 2015 the highest level since.

In the iPhone 7 to obtain strong sales performance at the same time, the market has turned its attention to Apple will launch this year’s new iPhone, analysts expect the company will usher in a “super cycle”, its sales will exceed the company launched iPhone 6 To turn to the level of large-screen mobile phone.

US International Trade Commission on the 9th announced that five Chinese companies in the US sales of liquid crystal electronic tablet products launched “337 investigation” to determine whether they exist patent infringement .

The United States International Trade Commission said in a statement, Kent Displays, Inc. in Ohio, December 2016, a complaint filed against the United States imported and sold in the US market, the company infringed the patent, the US International Trade Commission issued a limited exclusion order and Prohibition order. cu16025ecpb

The so-called “337 investigation” got its name in the “United States Tariff Act of 1930″ section 337, after several major amendments. Under the terms of the ITC, the ITC has the power to investigate complaints about patent and trademark infringement, as well as investigations into misappropriation of trade secrets, infringement of product packaging, counterfeiting and false advertising. “337 survey” survey respondents, including not only foreign companies can also involve US companies.

According to the relevant procedures, the US International Trade Commission in the start “337 investigation”, must be 45 days to determine the final target time, and complete the investigation as soon as possible. Often the case requires a decision within one year. If the company involved is found to have violated Section 337, the USITC will issue an exclusion order and a restraining order for the product, which means that the product in question will be completely disqualified from entering the US market. bq30z50

Analysts believe that the current US President-elect Trump nominated major trade official candidates in the foreign trade hawkish stand, Trump after the ruling may be more concerned about trade enforcement rather than promoting trade liberalization, which may lead to US foreign trade friction Increase, worsen the global trade environment, Chinese enterprises need to prepare for this.

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye announced today that approximately 40 BMW unmanned vehicles will begin the road test in the second half of 2017. This is an important step for the three companies to fully realize the unmanned goal. At a joint press conference at CES, the three companies further revealed that the BMW 7 Series will use Intel and Mobileye’s cutting-edge technology to start a global road trip from the US and Europe.

The release, is the BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye announced in July last year, after the first disclosure of unmanned pilot project progress. Since then, the three companies have embarked on an extensible architecture. The architecture can also be used by other automotive developers and manufacturers to achieve first-class design and create differentiated brands. These products range from a single key integrated module to a complete end-to-end solution to deliver a variety of differentiated consumer experiences. ” cu16025ecpb

“Unmanned vehicles are a reality, which is the common goal of BMW, Intel and Mobileye,” said Klaus Fr? Hlich, member of the BMW Development Board’s Management Board. “This collaboration brings together all the necessary skills and talent to overcome future Numerous technical challenges and commercialization of unmanned vehicles, we have taken into account scalability, and we welcome other companies, such as manufacturers, suppliers or technology companies, to contribute to the unmanned platform. , Our test car will be on the road around the world measured the joint technology.For our goal – in 2021 launched the BMW Group’s first all-unmanned vehicle BMW iNEXT, this is an important step. ”

“From an industry perspective, we have achieved cost savings and development speed by sharing development costs and consolidating resources to develop a full-scale unmanned platform,” said Kevin Zech, CEO of Intel Corp. ” Of the system will have consistent and predictable behavior, and will follow the highest safety standards to run. This is why this cooperation can be called ice-breaking move.We formed a special team with a clear common goal, and innovation, agility and Responsible culture. ”

“We have made significant progress in the past six months,” said Amnon Shashua, co-founder, chairman and CTO of Mobileye, “to design state-of-the-art unmanned solutions for highways and common urban roads. Is a scalable solution that meets the unique needs of the car manufacturers involved in the project. ” bq30z50

As part of this collaboration, the BMW Group will be responsible for driving control and dynamics, overall functional safety assessment (including setting up a high-performance analogue engine), integral component integration, prototyping and eventual platform expansion through partner deployment .

In this partnership, Intel’s innovative high-performance computing capabilities, from the car has been covered to the data center. The new release of the Intel? GO unmanned solution provides world-class processor and FPGA technology to balance performance and power consumption in the most efficient manner while meeting the automotive industry’s demanding thermal and safety requirements. Within the car, Intel GO solutions provide scalable development and computing platforms for critical functions, including sensor aggregation, driving strategies, environmental modeling, path planning and decision making. In the data center, Intel GO offers a wide range of technologies, from high-performance Intel Xeon processors to Intel Arria 10 FPGAs and Intel SSDs to the Intel Nervana (TM) artificial intelligence platform for unmanned Industry-specific machine learning and in-depth learning provide a powerful training and simulation infrastructure.

Mobileye contributes its proprietary EyeQ® 5 high-performance computer vision processor, providing automotive-grade functional safety and low-power performance. EyeQ? 5 is responsible for handling and deconstruction of information from the 360-degree panoramic vision sensor, and localization. EyeQ? 5 with Intel CPU and FPGA technology constitutes a central computing platform, will be integrated into each unmanned vehicle.

Mobileye plans to work with the BMW Group to develop a sensor fusion solution that uses data from vision, radar and lidar sensors to create a complete vehicle surrounding environment model. The two sides will also develop a driving strategy, including Mobileye’s enhanced learning algorithm, which will give the vehicle system required for artificial intelligence, in complex driving situations for safe communication.

To further drive the development of unmanned platforms, the three companies plan to release hardware samples and software updates in the coming years. The BMW iNEXT model, scheduled for release in 2021, will be the cornerstone of the BMW Group’s unmanned strategy. In this car, the BMW Group’s all brands will launch a highly automated model.

Samsung on Wednesday announced support for early start-up companies focused on emerging technologies. Through its Global Innovation Group, the company has established a $ 150 million fund focused on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and “other new cutting-edge technology companies.”

So far, Samsung has invested in 10 startups, including Converge Industries, Dashbot, Entry Point VR, Filament, Intezer, LiquidSky, Otto Radio, 2Sens, SafeDK and Virtru. The purpose of the fund is only to invest in seed screening for the B round enterprises. p1cn012n

“Our investment is bringing the strength of the Samsung platform to start-up companies, accelerating their growth and ultimately their success,” said Brendon Kim, vice president and general manager of Samsung’s Nest Ventures. “Samsung’s NEXT FUND expands our global reach and strength, while giving Samsung the opportunity to reach even greater ideas, products and talent.”

Samsung declined to say how much each venture will get. In addition, it seems the company’s next step may be aimed at the Israeli market, in September this year, a new office will be launched in Tel Aviv, Israel. At present, Samsung has five offices dedicated to innovation in the world, located in San Francisco, Mountain View, South Korea and New York, and plans to increase office space later this year. cu16025ecpb

Next, Samsung’s predecessor, Global Innovation Center, changed its name because “our new name reflects our enthusiasm for working with technology innovators to take them to the next level – creating great ideas, Product growth for the prosperity of enterprises, and expand the scale of the Samsung ecosystem to transform.

Shenzhen will build the national and global graphene industry center, in a new round of industrial development to take the initiative. Reporter from Shenzhen recently held in the graphite industry development forum was informed that the Shenzhen attaches great importance to the graphene industry, the relevant research institutions, industry alliances, enterprises to support, and strive to industry standards, research and development, application breakthrough. mc74hc573n

The symposium was co-sponsored by China International Graphene Resources Industry Alliance and sponsored by Shenzhen Industry Association.

China International Graphene Resources Industry Alliance, said Zhang Jingan, graphene is becoming a contemporary subversive new materials, China in the field of graphene patent applications, papers published and the resources are the world’s first. Shenzhen graphene industry development market environment is good, high level of research and development, industry transformation fast, has born a number of industry leaders. Hope that Shenzhen to increase efforts to make the future of Shenzhen, the world’s graphene industry center, with the United States comparable to the Silicon Valley, “Alkaline Valley.” lm2586

It is reported that Shenzhen has the country’s largest graphene application market, Shenzhen lithium batteries, electric vehicles, many mobile phone companies, industrial chain supporting the conditions of the country’s leading. Shenzhen enterprises in graphene R & D and application areas to achieve a certain breakthrough, such as the success of China’s Ark to create the world’s first piece of graphene terahertz chip, Yuwang technology in the world’s first graphene research results industrialization, Huawei and the University of Manchester Cooperation in the application of graphene, BYD is full research and development graphene – lithium iron phosphate batteries. At the same time, Shenzhen Institute of Tsinghua University, Shenzhen University in the preparation of graphene and its application in lithium-ion batteries have accumulated a certain amount of research.

However, due to the original development plan may be used or emissions of chemical substances change, environmental analysis of the difference in the report to be re-sent…. Review, in November, after the initial success, and finally in the 28th EIA Committee adopted, announced the expansion of plant step, the future can be a good sprint 10-nanometer production.

Related to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 10 nm, 7-nanometer manufacturing process in the Science Park (formerly Daishan ammunition sub-library) development case, the four environmental impact assessment in February 2015, to the Section 1 and 2 health risk assessment also included In five under the assessment, conditional. However, the plant will be used or derived chemical substances and the number of projects to be changed, TSMC and then re-send pieces of consideration, November 3 this year, the Environmental Protection Department ad hoc group adopted preliminary re-submitted to the EIA Assembly, 28, 306 The EIA meeting finally passed the case, declared the dust settles. gmf32024abtw

According to the Environmental Information Center of the Taiwan Environmental Information Association, the EIA General Assembly has also requested that the SEGA conduct regular and occasional checks on the use of TSMC chemicals. TSMC also needs to disclose the air, water and waste Such as sewage situation. TSMC senior director Zhuang Zishou pointed out that the ring through the case, but also to the current test run of TSMC 10 nm eat reassurance, TSMC will start mass production, and expressed the hope that 2017 has good news.

The development scale of the development project of Zhongke Park (formerly Da’er Shan Ammunition Sub-library) is 53.08 hectares. TSMC applies for an area of ​​about 32 hectares. It is estimated that P5 and P6 fabs will be completed in 2017. Except for 10- Mass production, 7-nanometer process is expected to be arranged in the official. msp430f436ipzr

TSMC Kaohsiung campus expansion ring difference case is also the end of November this year through the first trial of the ring, the expansion is expected to spend 500 billion Taiwan dollars to build a new plant, to start next year, the development of 5 nm and 3 nm process.

According to Sigmaintell earlier analysis, brand manufacturers in 2017, product planning, will decisively stop Sharp 60-inch new layout, will demand to 65-inch. So, this change in the first quarter of 2017 panel industry, especially Chinese manufacturers have what effect?

First, Samsung Electronics is SDP 65-inch main customers, while Samsung Display (SDC) is the world’s largest supplier of 65-inch. Samsung Electronics to 65-inch transfer demand, we expect will lead directly to Samsung Electronics and SDC in 2017 the supplier relationship has been strengthened.

Second, 65-inch panel resource allocation face adjustment. Currently the world’s 65-inch panel suppliers mainly for the Korean plant SDC, LGD, Taiwan and AUO factory Chong Chong. SDP 65-inch shipments are calculated on an average of 250K, Samsung and other brands by the single-affect, these numbers will be gathered to the 65-inch suppliers. The first is SDC and LGD, followed by Taiwan and AUO Group. Therefore, in 2017 the Chinese brands available 65-inch resource allocation will be compressed, small and medium brand pressure will be greater. xc4020xl-3pq160c

Third, the short-term supply will cause 65-inch tension, and produce butterfly effect, the spread to the adjacent size.

Fourth, the Chinese panel makers BOE and CEC Panda also have a small amount of 65-inch shipments. BOE in G8.5 generation does not have the economic cutting capacity, can expand the space is limited. But CEC Panda G6 generation has economic benefits, CEC Panda can seize this time window, expand the TV customer base and market discourse. xc17s05pd8i

Finally, the long term, even if the SDP panel to stop external suppliers, but its production capacity is still to maintain full production marry, regardless of the final brand to the sea for Sharp, or Foxconn OEM release number, the global total shipments will not cut back. The future of more than 65-inch large-size panel supply and demand situation remains to be cautious.

TSMC, Samsung 10nm production process has entered the countdown stage, Apple A11 / A10X, Huawei Unicorn 970, Qualcomm Xiaolong 835, MediaTek Helio X30, etc. a new flagship chip are also highly anticipated.

According to the plan, Apple’s next-generation iPad processor A10X will be the first in March 2017 TSMC production in the second quarter will continue to mass production of iPhone 8 processor A11, several other are also arranged in the first half of next year.

However, according to the latest news from Taiwan media, TSMC, Samsung 10nm process yields are not as expected, production is facing an embarrassing situation, and even affected the future of new technology research and development. ms3348-8-10

TSMC has been a senior R & D director Wu Xian Yang (16 / 7nm) and Cao Min (20 / 10nm) turns the leader, but the future 5nm to March this year before joining the TSMC R & D department of the former Qualcomm senior technology Director Geoffrey Yeap. TSMC plans to mass production in 2020 5nm, and then Intel is also expected to launch 7nm, in order to better than rival TSMC will be launched a lot of new technologies, including optical / UV lithography, germanium / 35 materials instead of silicon and so on.

Samsung, said its 10nm yield is not even as TSMC, leading to high tension and the relationship is very tight.

Qualcomm because of dissatisfaction with the progress of TSMC and defected to Samsung, 14nm on the co-operative fairly happy, so continue on the 10nm, is expected to return to TSMC 7nm, Samsung 10nm is not smooth, leading to Qualcomm chips have to return next year 14nm, such as Xiao Long 660. ms-470n

Vertical Channel Filled Metal 3D NAND Flash One of the key issues in the development of vertical stacking over 64 layers, the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process can be formed in large areas in a high aspect ratio vertical channel Film, and has a good step coverage (Step Coverage), it applies to more layers of 3D NAND Flash vertical channel filler metal, but its deposition rate is slow and the higher the cost of materials and other issues.

ALD chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and another CVD technology plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition (Plasma-Enhanced CVD; PECVD) compared to ALD using sequential injection of the first and second Precursor as a reactive gas to vaporize the film, which is different from the PECVD using plasma evaporation technology, while evaporation of two or more precursors for chemical reaction. ms3348-8-10

The advantage of ALD is that the film thickness can be accurately controlled and a large area uniform film can be formed at the atomic level precision, and it is suitable for depositing a thin film with excellent step coverage in the concavo-convex structure. On the other hand, PECVD is not easy in the concave-convex structure or the deep hole pattern Reaching the same thickness of the film, it ALD process is expected to become more than 64 layers of 3D NAND Flash vertical channel filler metal solution.

However, the deposition rate of ALD is slower than that of PECVD because of the long process time, and the amount of precursor needed by ALD is high, which makes the deposition cost increase. ms-470n

3D NAND Flash to 64 layers above the development of the need to improve the deposition and etching of thin film deposition, vertical through channels, channel filling metal and other processes, of which, film deposition process time, vertical through the channel need to change the cost of dry etching Technology, and channel filling metal ALD process required for the process time and cost increases and other issues, so how to cope with rising costs will become the 3D NAND Flash technology to develop more layers of important issues.

With this year is coming to an end, in the 3D NAND, advanced foundry and advanced packaging investment driven, making the equipment spending power than the beginning of the strong forecast …

The book-to-bill ratio (B / D) for the North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers was $ 1.55 billion in November 2016, according to the latest book-to-bill shipping report from the International Semiconductor Industry Association (SEMI) B value) of 0.96, on behalf of the semiconductor equipment manufacturers in the month of $ 100 per shipment of products, you can receive orders worth $ 96. b32529c182k289

SEMI report pointed out that the North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers in November 2016 the world received an order estimate of $ 1.55 billion, compared with $ 14.9 billion in October growth of 4%, and compared with $ 1.24 billion in the same period last year, growth of 25.1 / RTI & gt;

Shipments in November were $ 1.61 billion, a slight decrease of 1.1% from $ 1.63 billion last month, but up 25.2% from $ 1.29 billion for the same period last year.

“As this year is drawing to a close, driven by strong investment in 3D NAND, advanced foundry and advanced packaging, equipment spending is expected to be stronger than expected at the beginning of the year,” said Cao Shih-lun, president of SEMI’s Taiwan region. Expenditure growth in 2017. tda7580

SEMI’s published B / B values ​​are based on the average order book value of North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers for the past three months, divided by the average amount shipped in the past three months.