A strong rise in US sales of Sony PlayStation 3 during the week of Black Friday is expected to help the global video game console market to return to growth during the fourth quarter,...
Acer rose to second place in the worldwide PC business in the third quarter of 2009, up from third place during the previous quarter. The company supplanted Dell, which declined to...
US retailers during the week of Black Friday cut prices on LCD TV models by an average of 22% compared to before the event, causing sales to rise by 6% compared to a year earlier,...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced its 8-inch fab (Fab 10) located in Shanghai, China is prepared to manufacture automotive grade ICs. The Taiwan-based...
Global pure-play semiconductor foundry revenues are set to amount to US$5.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 53.7% from the same period in 2008, according to iSuppli. However,...
Although the global semiconductor industry has had little to cheer about in 2009 with revenues dropping by 12.4% and only two of the top-20 suppliers achieving growth for the year,...
Massive spending on 3G networks by China's three mobile carriers will cause spending on wireless infrastructure equipment in the nation to surge by 27.7% to reach US$6.3 billion in...
DDR3 shipments will rise to account for more than half of the global DRAM market by the second quarter of 2010, surpassing DDR2 for the first time as the leading technology for PC...
New TV power consumption limits imposed by California's Energy Commission (CEC) could cut aggregate annual power consumption of LCD TVs worldwide in half by the year 2013, if the...
Although the global solar panel market remains in an acute state of oversupply, the inventory glut plaguing the industry has begun to abate somewhat due to surprisingly strong demand...
Thin-film solar cells are rapidly taking market share away from the established crystalline technology, with their portion of PV wattage more than doubling by 2013, according to iS...
A manufacturing interruption at a Corning plant in Taiwan will reduce availability of glass used for making LCDs in the fourth quarter of 2009, but will not drive up panel prices,...
US LCD TV shipments are expected to amount to eight million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 7.3% from 7.5 million during the same period in 2008, according to iSuppli.
China's gray-market handset shipments in 2009 are set to grow to 145 million units, or nearly 13% the size of the legitimate global handset business, according to iSuppli. The gray...
