Cai Lixing attended the seminar on international trends of “semiconductor's future and innovation” presented by the Intelligent Semiconductor Industry and Research Alliance of Jiaotong University yesterday. He pointed out that the semiconductor industry will continue to grow, with the main momentum coming from smart phones, servers, automobiles and the Internet of things. The smartphone market experienced a negative growth for the first time in the fourth quarter of last year. Although the decline rate was only 5%, it symbolized that the mobile phone market is entering a mature market. However, the smart phone market will pay more attention to the user experience in the future. With the same trend of increasing the number of semiconductor components, artificial intelligence will also become an essential feature of mobile phones. Therefore, it is still optimistic about the development of the smart phone market.
Cai Lixing stated that from the perspective of MediaTek, the mobile phone market was relatively hard in the fourth quarter of last year. In the first quarter of this year, it still faced an inventory adjustment. However, in March, it has seen a rebound in demand and felt the momentum of customer pulling goods. It is expected that the mobile phone market will be expected. Since the second quarter of this year, it will start to grow slowly. The view of MediaTek's overall operations this year will remain unchanged. Looking forward to the second quarter, the third quarter, the performance will be expected to grow quarter by quarter.