Affected by the global financial crisis and high inventory levels at clients, the global semiconductor industry will remain weak in the first quarter of 2009 before seeing a rebound in the secon
Friday, September 19, 2008 13:32
...ductor Industry Association (SIA) earlier this year, chip sales in July are nothing less than impressive. Global semiconductor revenue was up by 7.6% from $20.6 billion in July 2007 to $22.2 billion i...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:27
Recent research from IC Insights uncovered a big shakeup in its global top 20 semiconductor supplier rankings, with many of the major DRAM and flash suppliers (e.g., Qimonda, Elpida, Spansion, P
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 08:47
...or the surprise increase in sales, prompting market researchers to adjust their market estimates. Global chip sales for the first half of 2008 came in at $127.5 billion, about 5.4% above the H...
Monday, August 04, 2008 09:57
...ling prices (ASPs), Malcolm Penn, chairman and CEO of Future Horizons, recently forecast in the company's Global Semiconductor Monthly Report that ASPs will start to rise (or even stop falling), with ...
Friday, August 01, 2008 13:01
The global electronics Contract Manufacturing (CM) industry is undergoing a period of deceleration and consolidation, phenomena that will transform the market by 2013 as competitors are forced t
Friday, August 01, 2008 12:06
...se for semiconductor manufacturing by 2010, due to booming demand for solar energy, according to iSuppli. Global production of PV cells is expected to rise to as much as 12 gigawatts (GW) by 2010, up ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 09:13
Worldwide silicon wafer revenues totaled $12.5 billion in 2007, a 22.5% increase from 2006 revenues of $10.2 billion, according to Gartner. "The increase was due to two factors: a continued rise
Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:44
...et share can Nvidia take from Texas Instruments, Philips and Infineon, but if the company captures 10% of global cellphone share with its Tegra APX and a decent portion of mobile computing markets, th...
Monday, June 02, 2008 04:00
...ng again lately, but there is no
denying that the value of the currency has dropped low enough to upset
global markets and it appears to be low enough to be hitting back U.S.
IT companies that rely...
Friday, May 30, 2008 00:22
...r wireless products rose at a faster pace than the overall chip market in 2007, according to iSuppli. The global wireless semiconductor market generated $29.5 billion in revenues in 2007, up 7.6% from...
Monday, May 19, 2008 08:55
Consumers are feeling the pressure of the economic downturn and so are global semiconductor and electronic equipment suppliers as they face slowing growth in demand in 2008, according to research
Thursday, April 10, 2008 09:06
A reduction in excess chip inventory levels often indicates a rise in global semiconductor sales, but in the first quarter of 2008, an expected decline in surplus stockpiles is revealing troubling si
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 08:56
...an any other Silverthorne chip (yields are rumored to be very high). The answer of the firm’s director of global ecosystem programs for MIDs, Pankaj Kedia, was, well, diplomatic: “Production cost does...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:30
...nies that did well were Qualcomm, which is the first fables company that actually has a shot to enter the global top 10 of chip makers. The company gained 24.1% to $5.6 billion and is at position #13....
Thursday, March 20, 2008 00:44
...emiconductor sales declined sequentially and were flat year-over-year during the first month of the year. Global sales of $22.49 billion were down 3.6% over the previous month and up 0.03% over Januar...
Monday, March 03, 2008 09:14
...more important link the development chain. Granted, the Markham labs represent only a fraction of AMD’s global validation team. Still, we believe that a look behind its doors provides interesting in...
Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:03
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported $255.6 billion in global semiconductor sales for 2007. Revenues were up 3.2% from $247.7 billion in 2006. The industry association said that majo
Friday, February 01, 2008 10:53
...o bringing IBM’s semiconductor and design leadership to India and leveraging the country as hub for global innovation". IBM views India as "a domestic market for engineering serv...
Friday, December 28, 2007 09:15
...he market. Sharp currently employs 57,600. Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today comprises a global network of more than 670 companies with 191,000 employees, and annual sales in excess o...
Friday, December 21, 2007 09:22
...007), the company believes that there are rocky times ahead in the first half of 2008. iSuppli said that global chip revenue during the first six months of the year will be about $135.9 billion, down...
Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:36
Global semiconductor sales continued their positive growth in October, posting a 5% gain year over year. Revenues came in at $23.1 billion, up from $22.0 billion in October 2006. Sales for 2007 so far
Monday, December 03, 2007 14:31
Amid strong growth in global NAND flash memory sales in the third quarter, Hynix Semiconductor , Micron Technology and Intel impressively outperformed the competition, according to a preliminary rankin
Friday, November 30, 2007 08:20
...derives more than 45% of its revenue from wireless communications chips, and may suffer a 3.4% decline in global semiconductor revenue in 2007. iSuppli believes that the negative growth is mainly due ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 09:28
...e semiconductor manufacturers a boost as sales increased substantially in the third quarter of this year. Global revenues of chip companies rose 5.9% from $64.0 billion in Q3 2006 to $67.8 billion thi...
Monday, October 29, 2007 11:56
...ts (TI) outpaced the wireless semiconductor market in the second quarter of 2007, boosting their share of global sales, according to iSuppli. With the global wireless semiconductor market expanding by...
Friday, October 26, 2007 09:42
...aching new customers and industries, spreading the design and technology around a little bit through global collaboration and unifying the SOI industry voice. The benefits and claims of SOI adva...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 08:44
...emiconductors used in such TV sets is expected to undergo a rapid expansion during the coming years, with global revenue set to nearly quadruple from 2006 to 2011, research firm iSuppli predicts. The ...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:16
... sales so far. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), August sales were $21.6 billion global ly, up 4.5% from August 2006 and up 4.9% from July 2007. The main driver for higher sa...
Monday, October 01, 2007 14:46
...litical pressure as well, as Japan's Ministry of Trade, Economy and Industry has called for increased global competitiveness in the semiconductor industry....
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 08:17
... headquarters, with the region continuing to host the largest and most diverse group of chipmakers of all global electronics hot spots, according to iSuppli. More here at Digitimes. ...
Thursday, August 30, 2007 08:58
...mpany that doesn't own a single semiconductor production factory, ascended to the top-10 ranks of the global chip industry in the second quarter of 2007, marking the first time a fabless company h...
Friday, August 24, 2007 09:57
... shipments of chips for this segment expected to double from 2006 to 2011, research firm iSuppli predicts.Global DTV semiconductor market revenues will rise to $14.2 billion in 2011, expanding from $7...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:15
Production outages at certain Samsung fabs, taking out 35% of the global NAND wafer output, may actually turn out good for the market as a whole. El Segundo (CA) - Production outages at certain Sam
Friday, August 03, 2007 15:40
... will find use in consumer and server markets as well as in wireless applications, such as cellphones and global positioning devices. Financial details about this agreement were not disclosed. ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 21:23
...optimistic, with a prediction of a healthy 6% increase this year, versus the previous 8% growth forecast. Global semiconductor revenue is expected rising to US$276.6 billion in 2007, up from US$260.9 ...
Friday, June 22, 2007 16:56
The global semiconductor market is expected to grow 2.3% on an annualized basis to $253.5 billion in 2007 after the industry has seen a growth rate of 8.9% in 2006, according to World Semiconductor Tr
Thursday, May 31, 2007 09:28
... its 2007 worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast, primarily due to an anticipated decline in DRAM sales.Global semiconductor revenue is expected to rise to US$281.4 billion in 2007, up 8.1% from US$...
Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:38
...timated to blow out more than 100 tons of the gas over their life time and contribute to significantly to global warming. While especially car manufacturers look for ways to reduce CO2 emissions in fu...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 13:18
...rop in surplus inventory at the end of the fourth quarter of 2006, excess semiconductor stockpiles in the global electronics supply chain continued to decline in the first quarter of 2007 due to previ...
Thursday, April 05, 2007 09:56
...he top-10 of semiconductor manufacturers in 2006. The company jumped from position 15 in 2005 to 7 with a global market share that is estimated at 2.9%. Revenues have grown from $3.9 billion in 2005 t...
Monday, December 04, 2006 21:39
World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) projects the global semiconductor industry will continue to grow in 2007 and peak in 2008, said WSTS Asia-Pacific president Tony Huang. World Semico
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 15:29
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today released its annual forecast of global semiconductor sales, which expects a healthy growth rate for most microchip segments. As a result of cut-thro
Thursday, November 16, 2006 17:47
...nductor inventories remained high in the third quarter, according to market firm iSuppli. Inventories for global electronic companies, including AMD and Intel, are hovering at $3.9 billion dollars and...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 21:38
... "This strong expansion reflects robust conditions in the market for the DRAM chips used in such modules. Global DRAM semiconductor revenue is expected to rise to $30.6 billion in 2006, up 24 percent ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 17:26
...nix Semiconductor America have been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco for their role in a global conspiracy to fix DRAM memory prices, the Department of Justice announced. Two executi...
Thursday, October 19, 2006 17:27
... stockpiles of PC microprocessors and core logic chipsets caused surplus semiconductor inventories in the global electronics supply chain to rise more than expected in the second quarter, according to...
Friday, August 04, 2006 14:56
Analysts earlier this year were very cautious about predicting revenues for the semiconductor industry. On paper, 2006 could have spelled disaster for the industry - and Microsoft's decision to delay
Friday, June 30, 2006 21:01
In a report released yesterday, iSuppli director and principal analyst Nam Hyung Kim said that, with inventories of consumer goods dependent on NAND flash memory finally beginning to decline, and dem
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 15:45
...o is Qimonda, and how does the spinoff of once trouble-ridden Infineon find a way to capitalize on rising global demand for memory, without falling into the pit of plummeting prices? ...
Monday, June 26, 2006 14:01
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