Average global pricing for commodity electronic components is expected to rise by 2.3% sequentially in the third quarter of 2009, thanks to shortages and resulting price hikes for...
Most major global semiconductor suppliers that have reported second-quarter results are currently holding lean levels of chip inventory, putting them in a strong competitive position...
Amid a shortage of DDR3 memory and a resulting rise in pricing, iSuppli has upgraded its rating of near-term conditions for DRAM suppliers to positive. The research firm had maintained...
New US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines call for the energy consumption of some TVs to be cut by as much as two-thirds by 2013, compelling the LCD TV supply chain...
For 2009, the global pure-play foundry business is expected to underperform the total semiconductor industry, according to iSuppli. The current forecast is for the pure-play foundry...
The combination of the global recession and excess inventory has set back the wireless semiconductor market to levels not seen since 2003, according to iSuppli.
After declining for the previous nine months, global large-size LCD panel shipments rose sequentially by 41.4% in the second quarter of 2009 due to higher pricing and healthy demand,...
Following four consecutive quarters of reductions, global inventories of chips have declined to appropriate levels, clearing the way for stockpile rebuilding and higher sales in the...
Although sales of LCD TVs are continuing to grow during the current downturn, the recession is resulting in somewhat weakened demand, causing contract manufacturing of such sets to...
Defying the downturn in the overall electronics industry, the market for micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) used in consumer electronics and wireless products is expected to generate...
For the first time since the Dot-Com bust of 2001, the global PC market will suffer a contraction in shipments in 2009, due to a combination of falling IT spending and plunging sales...
Market research firm iSuppli has lowered its forecasts for global semiconductor and electronic equipment revenues in 2009, due to lingering economic woes and continuing poor visibility...
Surging prices for NAND flash memory have diminished the previously-promising market for solid state drive (SSD) storage technology in notebooks in 2009, according to iSuppli.
The consumer electronics (CE) industry will not achieve an annual expansion in 2009, which would signal a true recovery, despite the global CE market returning to sequential revenue...
Shipments of LCD TVs in India are set to surpass those of CRT TVs by 2012 as the country undergoes a rapid transition to the flat-panel technology, according to iSuppli.
