The success of Apple's iPhone is spurring competitors to offer products with comparable features, fueling a sales boom for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers used...
Following a dismal 2008, global spending on semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2009 will fall to its lowest level in six years due to weakening conditions in the chip and electronic...
With car sales plunging, demand for automotive electronics is dropping as well, except for the key area of electronic stability control (ESC) systems, whose sales are expected to...
With global demand for PCs and other electronic products weakening, iSuppli is predicting that global shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) used in these systems will be flat or even...
The once almost unstoppable growth in mobile device shipments and revenues is coming to a screeching halt as wireless subscribers around the globe extend the life cycles of their...
For memory chip makers, 2008 will go down as a year to forget, as a major downturn in this segment caused revenues to fall for nearly all suppliers and contributed to negative results...
In light of the current economic and financial crises, iSuppli has trimmed its forecast for LCD TV shipments, but still anticipates growth in 2008 and 2009.
Deteriorating economic conditions are causing many consumers to delay replacing their existing handsets, spurring a decline in global fourth quarter shipments for small- to medium-size...
Amid rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global economy and financial system, iSuppli has slashed its 2009 forecast for PC unit shipments by nearly two thirds. iSuppli's new preliminary...
Amid rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global economy and electronics value chain, iSuppli now is predicting worldwide semiconductor revenues will decline in 2008 compared to...
Pricing for polysilicon used to create photovoltaic (PV) cells is expected to drop in 2009 and the following years due to fundamental imbalances in the solar supply chain, according...
The T-Mobile G1 smartphone, the first wireless handset to be based on Google Android mobile operating system, carries a bill-of-materials (BOM) cost of US$143.89, according to a virtual...
Once one of the fastest-growing segments of the global semiconductor industry, the NAND flash memory market has been stricken by weakening consumer spending, causing revenues to decline...
Intel gained market share in the worldwide microprocessor business in the third quarter of 2008, on both a sequential and a year-over-year basis, padding its lead in the industry,...
The new Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone represents RIM's first attempt to address consumers directly with a device that is as attractive to average consumers...
