Smartphone

In January 2019, ByteDance acquired the rights to use some of Smartisan's patents, saying it would explore businesses related to the education sector.

Chinese smartphone giant OPPO could release a device with a curved screen in March, possibly using groundbreaking technology.

TrendForce said it expects smartphone production to reach 1.36 billion units. That contrasts with 1.25 billion units in 2020.

This is the first time Xiaomi has overtaken Apple as the world's third-largest smartphone maker.

Xiaomi, by comparison, shipped 125.6 million units in 2019.

In October, the value of export delivery of above-scale electronic information manufacturing industry increased by 6.6% year-on-year.

Qualcomm has received a license to sell 4G chips to Huawei, Yicai.com quoted the upstream supply chain vendor as saying on November 13.

Samsung today unveiled its next-generation SoC, the Exynos 1080, at a press conference in Shanghai, featuring Samsung's latest 5nm EUV process, which offers a 25 percent smaller die area and 20 percent higher power efficiency than 7nm EUV.

Huawei ranked No. 1 in China's smartphone market with 35.1 million units shipped in the third quarter and a market share of 41.4 percent, more than double that of second-place Vivo, data released today by IDC showed.

At tonight's Nut 2020 launch event, ByteDance's smartphone making arm unveiled the Nut R2 phone, bringing with it a curved full screen, 100 million pixel lens and 5G network support.