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Recently, Samsung Electronics signed an image sensor foundry agreement with UMC for the production of ISP and related panel driver ICs, countering Sony and TSMC. Moving forward, the company also plans to sell hundreds of fab equipment to UMC to support the construction of chip foundries.

According to the information, the South Korean tech giant plans to sell 400 sets of fab equipment to UMC that will be installed in UMC’s P6 factory. However, UMC’s P6 factory has not yet been put into production but the report suggests that it could start mass production in 2023 with an expected production capacity of 27,000 chips.

The same report further revealed that the UMC P6 factory will mainly use the 28nm process to produce chips for related customers including image sensors and display driver chips. However, Samsung and UMC had signed an image sensor foundry agreement, UMC’s P6 factory will also be mainly used for Samsung’s foundry-related chips.

Starting this year, UMC announced that they planned to invest US$1.5 billion in factory construction this year, and the 400 sets of equipment that Samsung plans to sell to them are not expected to be among the US$1.5 billion previously planned.

Though Samsung is an important chip foundry in the world, its holding market share is larger and technology is ahead of UMC. Their current process technology has reached 5nm, and the time for mass production is only slightly later than TSMC.

As per the reports, Samsung has handed over some of its image sensors to the foundry of UMC because the market has a strong demand for the company’s image sensors, but their own production capacity cannot meet the strong demand.

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Samsung Teams Up with Tech Titans for Arm’s IPO Amid Valuation Shuffle

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A new report reveals that Samsung will participate as an anchor investor for Arm’s upcoming IPO after taking a conservative approach to the matter due to a perceived overvaluation and regulatory risk.

Samsung opted to make an investment in the chip designer, joining a slew of other industry players including Apple, Nvidia and Intel. Amazon, which was earlier rumored to be participating in the IPO, decided to step out.

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It’s worth mentioning that the strategic investors have agreed to invest between $25 million and $100 million each. The specific amount for each company hasn’t been disclosed yet.

This means the offering price will come in between $47 and $51 per share. It makes Arm’s valuation between $50 billion and $55 billion, down from the initial estimation of $64 billion.

Arm’s IPO on Nasdaq, which is expected in September, is considered to be the biggest IPO deal of the year. The company controls a majority of the world’s application processor market, designing and licensing basic blueprints for chips.

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Samsung vs Apple: The Epic Battle for Smartphone Supremacy in 2023

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Market research firm TrendForce published the latest report on their analysis. The agency disclosed that after global smartphone production dropped by nearly 20% year-on-year in the first quarter, production continued to decline by about 6.6% in the second quarter, to 270 million units.

In particular, the global smartphone production in the first half of 2023 was 520 million units, a 13.3% decline compared to the same period last year. Both individual quarters and the first half of the year in total set a ten-year low.

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TrendForce analysts pointed out that there are three reasons for the sluggish production performance:

  • First, the lifting of epidemic prevention restrictions did not drive demand as expected;
  • Secondly, the demographic dividend effect of the emerging Indian market has not effectively exerted its advantages;
  • Thirdly, in 2022, brands will be deeply affected by excessive channel inventory. It was originally expected that as inventory is reduced, brands will return to production levels.

However, now affected by economic weakness, people’s consumption willingness is more conservative, resulting in poor production performance in the first half of the year. expected.

Second Quarter Market

In the second quarter, Samsung still topped the list, with Q2 output reaching 53.9 million units, a decrease of 12.4% from the previous quarter. The same period coincided with the replacement of old and new Apple models, with output of 42 million units, a decrease of 21.2% from the previous quarter.

Adding to this, the most obvious change in the smartphone market was Transsion (including TECNO, Infinix, and itel). Transsion surpassed vivo and entered fifth place in the world for the first time. Its output increased by more than 70% month-on-month to 25.1 million units.

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In addition to Samsung and Apple, Xiaomi (including Xiaomi, Redmi, and POCO) produced approximately 35 million units in the second quarter, an increase of 32.1% from the previous quarter.

OPPO (realme, and OnePlus included) produced about 33.6 million units in the second quarter, an increase of 25.4% from the previous quarter. Q3 is expected to have a growth rate of about 10-15%, closely following Xiaomi.

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Samsung gears up to dominate the booming GDDR market amid global gaming surge

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Samsung and SK Hynix are strengthening their foray into the GDDR (Graphic Double Data Rate (GDDR) market amid the global gaming surge. The companies appear to be preparing to lead the GDDR market while gaining technological advantage in next-generation products.

Recently, IGI (Industry Growth Insights) published its new report citing that the GDDR market will grow from $3.2 billion in 2018 to $4.8 billion in 2030 with an average annual growth rate of 7.6%. It’s predicted that high-performance GDDR like GDDR6 will record a double-digit growth rate every year.

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In July, Samsung Electronics developed GDDR7, the industry’s most advanced product, for the first time, and supplied samples to Nvidia for verification for next-generation system installation. SK Hynix also plans to complete GDDR7 development within this year.

On the other hand, Micron plans to introduce GDDR7 in the first half of next year, a step later. In this situation, Nvidia, the world’s largest customer in the GPU market, is known to preferentially review Samsung Electronics’ products instead of Micron’s next-generation products.

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