TrendForce forecasts for 2018

1. Tight supply, high prices to continue in DRAM market

2. AI’s influence on the semiconductor industry will expand

3. Numerous fabs in China will come on-stream.

4. OLED penetration in smartphones will increase from 28% to 33%

5. 5G deployment begins

6. Voice-based personal assistants will drive IoT expansion

7. Micro LED will emerge as a rival to OLED

8. The rise of edge computing enables local processing of AI applications

9. Customised and specialised servers for AI will boost server ODMs.

10. Continued push towards autonomous driving technology.

11. The rise of EVs will drive new battery technologies
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