iPhone SE is Three iPhone Generations Rolled into One, IHS Teardown Reveals
4/5/2016
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A preliminary estimate by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS) and its Teardown and Cost Benchmarking Service shows that the iPhone SE smartphone costs about $160 to build. The US version of an entry-level iPhone SE with 16 gigabytes (GB) of NAND memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $156.20, which rises to $160.00 when the manufacturing cost is added, according to results from the IHS teardown of a phone purchased from the Apple Store on March 31, 2016. The retail price of the iPhone SE 16GB model is $399.
Wearable Device Display Unit Shipments to Hit 39 Million by 2016, IHS Says
2/25/2016
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (February 25, 2016) - The growing popularity of smartwatches, fitness monitors and other wearable applications is driving up shipments of the displays used in these devices, from 34 million units in 2015 to 39 million in 2016. Nearly six out of 10 displays used in wearable devices in 2015 were active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panels used in smartwatches, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight.
Seeing the Future in Flexible AMOLED Displays, Manufacturers Expand Production Capacity in 2016, IHS Says
2/17/2016
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (February 17, 2016) - With the growing popularity of the Samsung Galaxy Edge series and the Apple Watch, display manufacturers are expanding their production capacity of flexible active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays. While comprising just 2 percent of all AMOLED panel shipments in 2014, the share of flexible AMOLED panels rose to 20 percent of the total AMOLED display market in 2015, reaching 57 million units, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical informational and insight.
Oversupply to Overshadow LCD Market in 2016, IHS Says
1/28/2016
TOKYO, Japan (January 26, 2016) - The ongoing issue of liquid crystal display (LCD) oversupply -- exacerbated by China's aggressive investment in production capacity as well as high fab utilization -- will continue well into 2016. The supply of large-area LCD is expected to be 14 percent greater than demand in 2016, up from 12 percent in 2015, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical informational and insight.'
