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Due to the impact of the new coronavirus pandemic on the supply chain, the growth rate of the global wearable device market will shrink significantly in 2020, market research firm IDC said on Monday.

The conversational artificial intelligence market is one of the important segments of the Chinese artificial intelligence market. IDC has observed that as business needs are driven, more and more industry users are embedding conversational AI capabilities into business processes.

A total of more than 181,000 patent applications were filed in Europe in 2019, an increase of 4% over 2018, according to the 2019 Patent Index issued by the European Patent Office.

In February this year, China's auto output and sales were 285,000 and 310,000, respectively, which were down 83.9% month-on-month and 79.8% and 79.1% year-on-year respectively, according to the China Automobile Industry Association.

Last year, the global wearable device delivery reached 336.5 million units, an increase of 89% from the 178 million units in 2018, according to a report released by IDC.

Tesla's delivery in February was not significantly affected by the new coronavirus outbreak.

A recent report shows that smartphones are depreciating quite quickly, while Android smartphones are depreciating twice as fast as iPhones.

As the new coronavirus epidemic affected smartphone demand, Apple sold less than 500,000 iPhones in the Chinese market in February of this year.

The lower sales were mainly due to the disruption caused by the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 in China, the company explained.

Mobile phone shipments by local brands went down by 55.3 percent y/y to 5.9 million units, accounting for 91.8 percent of the mobile phone shipments in China.