Even as smartphone panel resolution continues to rise, and as display sizes continue to grow, panel manufacturers are facing pressure to reduce prices.
In what is traditionally a shipment spike quarter, certified Android shipments fell from 217 million in 3Q 2014 to 206 million in 4Q 2014, mainly due to Apple iOS? 90 percent growth from 39.3 million to 74.5 million iPhones shipped, but also due to forked Android.
Holiday seasonality, strong end-user demand, and a deep selection of models propelled smartphone volumes to a new record level for the quarter and for the year.
Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top semiconductor buyers in 2014, representing with a combined semiconductor demand of 17 percent, according to research firm Gartner.
The report found that a number of high-profile deployments of biometric authentication techniques would drive wider adoption. It highlighted Apple?s combination of Apple?s Touch ID authentication allied to tokenization in NFC payments as a key case in this regard.
Analyst firm ABI Research forecasts that global SIM card shipments will reach 5.2 billion units in 2014, marking a revitalizing 5.32 percent increase from 2013.
Propelled by the arrival of the Apple Watch, the global market for wireless power and charging in wearable applications is set to attain a gargantuan 3,000-percent expansion this year compared to 2014, according to research firm IHS.
In line with an earlier forecast of analyst firm IDC, the IT industry in the Philippines is set to close the year of 2014 with a growth of 11.4 percent as compared to 2013.
