Smartphones

This comes as overall shipments drop 4% in the world’s largest smartphone market

The decline is primarily driven by memory players prioritising AI data centres over consumer electronics

[SAN FRANCISCO] In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone – overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos – was scrapped in barely over a ...

The US tech giant’s tight grip on its supply chain leaves it better placed than rivals to absorb the impact of soaring memory chip costs

The Korean company will begin by halting sales in its home market

It has joined an alliance led by Qualcomm to speed up global deployment of the AI-native cellular network technology from 2029

The company has also been planning to introduce new laptops this week

The company and its Chinese peers are expected to look for ways to push consumers towards more expensive, premium devices as one way to offset rising costs

The research firm expects a modest 2% recovery in 2027 as the crisis eases