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Tuesday 6 August 2013
Worldwide IT outsourcing market to reach US$288 billion in 2013, says Gartner
The worldwide IT outsourcing (ITO) market is forecast to reach US$288 billion in 2013, a 2.8% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. Compared with Gartner's previous forecast,...
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Semiconductor revenues to rise 6.9% in 2013, says IDC
Semiconductor revenues worldwide are forecast to reach US$320 billion in 2013, up 6.9%, according to IDC. The research firm previously estimated a smaller 3.5% increase.
Friday 26 July 2013
Growth accelerates in worldwide mobile phone and smartphone markets in 2Q13, says IDC
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 6% on year in the second quarter of 2013. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), vendors shipped a total of 432.1 million mobile...
Friday 12 July 2013
Worldwide PC shipments declined 10.9% in 2Q13, says Gartner
Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76 million units in the second quarter of 2013, a 10.9% decrease from the same period in 2012, according to preliminary results from Gartner. This...
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Worldwide PC, tablet and mobile phone shipments to grow 5.9% in 2013, says Gartner
Worldwide devices (the combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to reach 2.35 billion units in 2013, a 5.9% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. The...
Friday 21 June 2013
IC manufacturing equipment spending to slip 5% in 2013, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment spending is projected to total US$35.8 billion in 2013, a 5.5% decrease from 2012 spending of US$37.8 billion, according to Gartner.
Thursday 13 June 2013
Global 1Q13 fab tool billings and bookings drop from year ago, says SEMI
SEMI has reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$7.31 billion in the first quarter of 2013. The billings figure is 8% higher than the fourth...
Thursday 30 May 2013
Worldwide server shipments declines 0.7% in 1Q13, says Gartner
In the first quarter 2013, worldwide server shipments declined 0.7% on year, while revenues declined 5% from the first quarter of 2012, according to Gartner.
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Worldwide tablet shipments to surpass portable PC shipments in 2013, total PC shipments in 2015, says IDC
According to a new forecast from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, tablet shipments are expected to grow 58.7% on-year in 2013 reaching 229.3 million units, up from 144.5...
Thursday 16 May 2013
Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled nearly 426 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0.7% from the same period in 2012, according to Gartner...
Wednesday 8 May 2013
Demand for SSDs in PCs to boom through 2017, says IHS
Global shipments of solid state drives (SSD) in PCs are set to rise by a factor of seven by 2017, allowing them to claim more than one-third of the market for PC storage solutions...
Friday 3 May 2013
Worldwide semiconductor assembly and testing revenues up 2% in 2012, says Gartner
The worldwide semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) market totaled US$24.5 billion in 2012, a 2.1% increase from 2011, according to Gartner.
Thursday 2 May 2013
Worldwide tablet market surges ahead on strong 1Q13 sales, says IDC
Worldwide tablet shipments continue to surge, growing 142.4% year over year in the first quarter of 2013, according to research firm IDC. Tablet shipments totaled 49.2 million units...
Monday 15 April 2013
Worldwide PC shipments in 1Q13 drop to lowest levels since 2Q09, says Gartner
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 79.2 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a 11.2% decline from the first quarter of 2012, according to Gartner. Global PC shipments went below...
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Worldwide smart connected device shipments cross one billion units in 2012, says IDC
Worldwide shipments of smart connected devices grew 29.1% on year in 2012, crossing one billion units shipped with a value of US$576.9 billion, according to IDC. The market expansion...