IDC: The shipment volume of foldable screen smartphones in China is expected to reach 9.47 million units by 2025, a year-on-year increase of 3.3%.

The latest forecast from International Data Corporation shows that the shipment volume of foldable phones in China is expected to reach 9.47 million units in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 3.3%, basically on par with last year. Currently, as component technology development reaches a bottleneck, the breakthrough space for foldable phones in terms of "thinness and lightness" is gradually narrowing, and future hardware innovation will focus more on continuous iteration of product form. The innovative three-fold and wide-fold forms are expected to attract more manufacturers to follow suit and drive the innovation of form deeper. Therefore, against the background of slowing hardware innovation, upgrades at the software level will become the core factor determining market competitiveness, and the foldable phone industry is gradually entering a new stage of "software-defined hardware". Manufacturers need to further deepen their cooperation with developers, accelerate the construction of a large screen ecosystem, optimize the experience of software application adaptation for large screens, explore deep integration with AI technology, in order to fully unleash the productivity potential of foldable screens in scenarios such as large screen office work and intelligent interaction, which will also become an important direction for the industry's future development.