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Tuesday 15 November 2016
Smartphone shipments to grow at single-digit rates through 2020, says IC Insights
Total smartphone shipments are forecast to grow by 4% in 2016 to 1.49 billion units after jumping by 13% to 1.43 billion in 2015, according to IC Insights. Moreover, smartphone shipments...
Friday 4 November 2016
Auto systems to show strong growth through 2020, says IC Insights
The market for automotive electronic systems is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.9% from 2015 to 2020, displaying the strongest growth among all end-use markets for ICs, according...
Thursday 20 October 2016
IC Insights raises 2016 IC market forecast to positive
IC Insights has raised its 2016 IC market forecast to 1% growth from negative 2%, and its 2016 IC unit volume shipment growth rate forecast from 4% to 6%. A large portion of this...
Tuesday 11 October 2016
Chipmakers continue to maximize 300mm and 200mm wafer capacity, says IC Insights
Enormous financial and technology hurdles continue to plague the development of 450mm wafers, and ambitious goals to put 450mm wafers to use have been scaled back. IC manufacturers...
Wednesday 28 September 2016
Leading-edge leads the way in pure-play foundry growth, says IC Insights
Growth in pure-play foundry sales for 2016 is forecast to be almost entirely due to sub-40nm feature size device sales, according to IC Insights. The leading-edge sub-40nm pure-play...
Friday 23 September 2016
Value of semiconductor industry M&A agreements already over US$50 billion, says IC Insights
After an historic surge in semiconductor merger and acquisition agreements in 2015, the torrid pace of transactions has eased (until recently), but 2016 is already the second-largest...
Tuesday 20 September 2016
Asia-Pacific to top 2016 regional IC sales in major system categories, says IC Insights
Asia-Pacific's grip as the dominant market for IC sales is forecast to strengthen in 2016 with the region expected to account for 61% of the US$282.0 billion IC market, according...
Friday 9 September 2016
IC Insights cuts IoT semiconductor market forecast
IC Insights has trimmed back its semiconductor forecast for Internet of Things system functions over the next four years by about US$1.9 billion, mostly because of lower sales projections...
Wednesday 31 August 2016
MCU market to reach record high revenues through 2020, says IC Insights
The IC industry's original system-on-chip (SoC) product category - microcontrollers (MCU) - is expected to steadily reach record-high annual revenues through the second half of this...
Wednesday 24 August 2016
TowerJazz and SMIC sales to surge in 2016, says IC Insights
Israel-based TowerJazz and China-based SMIC among the world's top-10 pure-play foundries are forecast to display the highest sales growth in 2016, IC Insights said in a new report.
Wednesday 17 August 2016
MediaTek, AMD sales surge in 2Q16, says IC Insights
IC Insights has released its list of the world's top-20 semiconductor suppliers in the second quarter of 2016, and identified MediaTek and AMD as the fastest-growing companies.
Monday 15 August 2016
DRAM market set to fall 19% in 2016, says IC Insights
The year 2016 is not expected to be a good one for the total memory market and the main culprit is DRAM, according to IC Insights. Declining shipments of desktop and notebook computers,...
Thursday 4 August 2016
Huge 2H16 spending surge expected from Samsung, TSMC and Intel, says IC Insights
IC Insights has forecast that semiconductor industry capital spending will increase by only 3% in 2016 after declining by 2% in 2015. However, driven by the top three spenders, Samsung,...
Friday 22 July 2016
Sensor sales keep hitting new records but price erosion curbs growth, says IC Insights
Despite strong double-digit percentage increases in annual unit shipments, semiconductor sensor sales growth has become uncharacteristically lethargic because of steep price erosion...
Friday 15 July 2016
Handset IC market to grow at 6.7% CAGR through 2019, says IC Insights
The increasing value of the average IC content in handsets along with the increasing percentage of smartphones sold as a percent of total handsets will help drive the handset IC market...
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Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research