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Tuesday 25 July 2017
Silicon wafer shipments remain at record highs, says SEMI
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments remained at their highest recorded quarterly level in the second quarter 2017, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its...
Friday 21 July 2017
Korea chipmakers looking to expand foundry biz
Samsung Electronics, Dongbu HiTek and SK Hynix have stepped up their foundry business expansions, which will as a group pose a threat to the existing major dedicated foundry houses...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Worldwide public cloud services spending forecast to reach US$266 billion in 2021, says IDC
Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is forecast to reach US$266 billion in 2021, according to the latest update to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud...
Monday 17 July 2017
Worldwide IT spending to grow 2.4% in 2017, says Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$3.5 trillion in 2017, a 2.4% increase from 2016, according to Gartner. This growth rate is up from the previous quarter's forecast of...
Friday 14 July 2017
Traditional PC market fares slightly better than expectations as component shortages ease, says IDC
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, workstation) totaled 60.5 million units in the second quarter of 2017, posting an on-year decline of 3.3%, according to...
Friday 14 July 2017
Semi content in electronic systems forecast to set new record in 2017, says IC Insights
The global electronic systems market will grow only 2% to US$1,493 billion in 2017, while the worldwide semiconductor market is expected to surge by 15% to US$419.1 billion, according...
Thursday 13 July 2017
Cloud and mobile upgrade cycles to boost worldwide IT spending in 2H17, says IDC
Worldwide IT spending is expected to increase by 4.5% in 2017 in constant currency terms, a significant improvement on last year's growth of 2.5%, with stronger upgrade cycles for...
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Worldwide semiconductor revenues to top US$400 billion in 2017, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor revenues are forecast to total US$401.4 billion in 2017, an increase of 16.8% from 2016, according to Gartner. This will be the first time semiconductor revenues...
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Worldwide tablet shipments expected to remain weak in 2H17
Worldwide slate-type tablet demand is expected to continue weakening in the second half of 2017 and impact related shipments, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Global semiconductor equipment sales set to reach record high in 2017, says SEMI
Worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment are projected to increase 19.8% to total US$49.4 billion in 2017, marking the first time that the semiconductor equipment...
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Worldwide spending on robotics forecast to accelerate over the next 5 years, says IDC
A new update to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Commercial Robotics Spending Guide forecasts worldwide purchases of robotics, including drones and robotics-related hardware, software...
Tuesday 4 July 2017
Global semiconductor sales increase 22.6% in May, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$31.9 billion for the month of May 2017, an increase of 22.6% compared to the May 2016 total of US$26 billion and 1.9% more than the April...
Friday 30 June 2017
Worldwide cloud IT infrastructure revenues grow 14.9% to US$8 billion in 1Q17, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, vendor revenues from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT,...
Wednesday 28 June 2017
CMOS image sensor sales to reach another record high in 2017, says IC Insights
CMOS image sensor sales are on pace to reach a seventh straight record high in 2017, and nothing ahead should stop this semiconductor product category from breaking more annual records...
Thursday 22 June 2017
Worldwide wearables market to nearly double by 2021, says IDC
As the wearables market transforms, total shipment volumes are expected to maintain their forward momentum. According to data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker,...