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1. PC shipments fall for first time in years

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 14 July 2009

   ... the first time since the dotcom bust of 2001, PC  shipments are falling this year, due to a combination of declining IT spending and plunging sales of desktop computers. According to iSuppli, global ...

2. 3G netbook market growing at rapid pace, iSuppli says

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 13 July 2009

     Market researchers continue to believe that the netbook category will be posting significant shipment growth. iSuppli said that 3G netbooks shipments alone will top 17 million this year. Good ...

3. PS3 slim and price cut rumors surface again

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 01 July 2009

   ... iSuppli reported in December 2008 that the bill of materials of the PS3 had shrunk to about $450 for the 80 GB model, which was much closer to the $399 retail price. It is reasonable to assume that Sony ...

4. Apple 'makes $420 on each iPhone sold'

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 24 June 2009

   Industry watcher iSuppli says that the new iPhone 3GS costs Apple just $178.96 to build. El Segundo (CA) - Industry watcher iSuppli says that the new iPhone 3GS costs Apple just $178.96 to build. The ...

5. Moore’s Law to die at 18 nm, analysts predict

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 16 June 2009

   iSuppli most certainly will initiate yet another discussion whether Moore’s Law, a forecast made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double ...

6. Portable DivX Blu-ray players arrive

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 10 June 2009

   ... and growing, accounting for nine percent of the total stand alone player market in 2009, up from just over five percent in 2008," said Sheri Greenspan, senior analyst at iSuppli. "This… will fuel the ...

7. Sprint readies Palm Pre for June 6 launch

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 19 May 2009

   ... ground to the popular iPhone and Blackberry.According to Tina Teng of iSuppli, the "similarity between the Pre and the iPhone clearly reveals the mark Palm is trying to hit." ...

8. Vizio takes back #1 spot in LCD TV sales

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 08 May 2009

   Vizio, which has built its LCD TV business on aggressively priced LCD TVs, is reaping the fruits of its efforts: According to iSuppli, the company has surpassed Samsung in terms of market share once ...

9. Maple leaf Palm Pre to debut in second half of 09

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 06 May 2009

   ... to Tina Teng of iSuppli, the "similarity between the Pre and the iPhone clearly reveals the mark Palm is trying to hit." ...

10. Commodity chip prices hit rock bottom

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... by iSuppli. These chips include such common things as memory and supporting chips which handle analog to digital switching, along with more traditional electronics components like capacitors, resistors, ...

11. Consumers dropping LCD TV premium brands in tough economy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 20 February 2009

    Vizio has become the second largest LCD TV vendor in the U.S. as consumers apparently have begun moving away from premium brands and premium prices, according to a report released by iSuppli. El Segundo ...

12. Global telco broadband growth slows considerably

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    Broadband subscriber growth entered a downturn in 2008, according to market estimates released by iSuppli today. Global subscriber growth was 9.1%, following five years of strong double-digit growth. ...

13. Land in sight: Sony cuts PS3 production cost by 35%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

    ... in losses the system has accumulated so far. But Sony is making progress, according to iSuppli, and is moving the console closer to a breakeven point.  El Segundo (CA) – Sony’s PS3 trails its ...

14. Cellphone industry faces downturn

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

    ... to decline by 5.6% and 10.7%, respectively, in 2009 and will not recover before 2010, iSuppli believes. Even a growing subscriber base cannot offset the revenue decline since most new subscribers are coming ...

15. Intel, Micron go after Samsung with 34 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... about 28%. Hynix is ranked fourth with about 13%, but is eclipsed by a combined Intel and Micron, which are listed by iSuppli with shares of 5% and 9%, respectively.   iSuppli recently said that ...

16. DRAM market rating lowered as fundamentals remain in the dumps

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 26 September 2008

    ... research firm iSuppli recently downgraded its rating for near-term conditions for the market. iSuppli lowered its rating for the DRAM market to "negative" from "neutral," citing weak demand in the PC market ...

17. Why the SSD will kill the HDD

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 11 September 2008

    ... 137 million hard drives were shipped, up 21% from the year ago-quarter, according to iSuppli. But that trend may start to reverse as SSDs are closing in on HDDs over time, similar to how flash memory has ...

18. LCD panel market set for recovery in September, says iSuppli

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

    After nearly three months of plummeting profitability and precipitous price plunges, the large-sized LCD panel market finally is due for a recovery in September, iSuppli predicts. "The large-sized ...

19. Intel tests mass storage waters with new SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... the big boys. According to iSuppli, Samsung currently dominates the NAND flash market with a share of 42.3% and Q2 revenues of more than $1.4 billion. Toshiba and Hynix, ranked second and third, account ...

20. Reports of failing iPhone 3G reception, Apple remains quiet

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 14 August 2008

    ... we are almost certain Infineon is the 3G supplier," Windsor wrote. He believes that a firmware upgrade is unlikely to fix the issue. iSuppli analyst Francis Sideco believes anything could cause problems, ...

21. Strong PC demand boosts chip revenues, DRAM and Flash prices plunge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 04 August 2008

    ... research firm iSuppli said that “the global DRAM market is showing renewed signs of weakness, with prices expected to fall during the third quarter due to bloated inventories.” The firm said that “OEM ...

22. iPod rumor mill: 64 GB iPod touch on the way?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 31 July 2008

    ... and flash-based storage. "We expect the click-wheel versions of the iPod to wane in favor of touch-screen-based models," said iSuppli's Andrew Rassweiler. Of course, this transition will not happen overnight. ...

23. AMD improves CPU market share – with little impact on Intel

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 02 July 2008

    ... cost AMD more than $4.3 billion, but according to iSuppli, AMD may have reached a point where it may have stabilized its market share and could have a foundation for growth in the future. However, iSuppli’s ...

24. iPhone 3G: Build it for $173, sell it for $500 (or more)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 24 June 2008

      Apple, not really known as a company with particularly small operating margins, may have outdone itself with the iPhone 3G. Market research firm iSuppli, has come up with a bill of materials ...

25. Slower economy to hit big screen TV sales

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Monday, 23 June 2008

    ... less money to spend, according to these analysts.  One analyst at iSuppli says inventory levels are “very high” and tracking at approximately 8 weeks.  But there is an upside to the slow sales, ...

26. Flexible display market to reach $2.8 billion by 2013, says iSuppli

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Tuesday, 10 June 2008

    ... mobility with compelling user interfaces. Due to the arrival of Polymer Vision's Readius pocket-sized e-reader and other such products, iSuppli forecasts the total flexible display market will reach $2.8 ...

27. No one won DRAM 'chicken' game in Q1 08, says iSuppli

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 02 May 2008

    ... market conditions, according to market research firm iSuppli. But while this strategy may have helped Samsung to avoid the worst effects of weak DRAM market conditions in the first quarter of 2008, with ...

28. Western Digital reduces workforce by 800

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 21 March 2008

    ... facilities in Kuching and Johor Bahru. According to a recent market report published by iSuppli, WD’s stock is currently close to a 10-year high, giving the company a market capitalization of about $6.5 ...

29. AMD takes a new shot a workstation graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 March 2008

    ... about 14.1%, according to iSuppli.    ATI and Nvidia have been fighting over the workstation market, which allows them to sell their (2D tuned) graphics cards for prices of well over $2000 on ...

30. LCD TV shipments to nearly double by 2012, says iSuppli

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 March 2008

    Global shipments of LCD TVs will nearly double from 2008 to 2012, driven mainly by falling prices and consumer demand for flat screens and the high-definition (HD) format, according to iSuppli. Worldwide ...

31. Dell surrenders #2 in notebook market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 06 March 2008

    ... in this PC market, then Apple should continue to do well. Unfortunately, DisplaySearch did not provide a market estimate for the PC market as a whole, but if we assume that iSuppli’s PC market estimate ...

32. Apple outgrows all other PC manufacturers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 05 March 2008

    ... shining star at #6 in the list with 39.3% shipment growth. According to iSuppli, Apple shipped 2.2 million PCs in the fourth quarter, up from about 1.6 million a year earlier. Despite its sharp growth, ...

33. Relevance of Blu-ray up in the air, says iSuppli

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Monday, 25 February 2008

    ... movies and video on demand, according to research firm iSuppli. More here at Digitimes.  ...

34. The cost of Ford’s Sync? $30. Its value? Priceless.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 22 February 2008

    ... approach and its price tag may surprise even more.     iSuppli has taken the hardware of Sync apart and found that its six main components carry an estimated cost of $27.80 for Ford. At the ...

35. Apple enters top 3 of smartphone makers – but is it enough?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 06 February 2008

    ... to Canalys. Compared to the overall cellphone market, Apple is also off: According to iSuppli, about 338.0 million cellphones were shipped in the fourth quarter of last year, translating into a 0.68% ...

36. Intel may exit Flash business – analyst

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 January 2008

    ... group lost $555 million. In 2005, the group lost $154 million.     iSuppli ranked Intel as the world’s fifth largest NAND flash supplier, with sales of $132 million and a market share ...

37. Microsoft’s Zune short in supply?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 12 December 2007

    Who would have thought that? Market research firm iSuppli today said that Microsoft in fact is not meeting market demand for its Zune portable media player. However, the reason may not be just a jump ...

38. Google’s Gdrive has a huge revenue potential, analysts say

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 11 December 2007

    ... would actually be profitable for the company. iSuppli estimates that about 4.2 million users could be using a Gdrive service initially – a number that could allow Google to offer 50 GB to every ...

39. AMD drops out of top 10 semiconductor ranking

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 November 2007

    AMD may leave the list of the world’s ten largest chip manufacturers as quickly as it had become part of it: iSuppli believes that AMD’s 2007 revenues will not be high enough to remain sustain ...

40. Nintendo surpasses Sony in video game sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 October 2007

    The success of the Wii shows its impact on the video game market: Market research firm iSuppli believes that Nintendo game sales in the third quarter kept increasing at a record pace and passed the mighty ...

41. Nokia ships over 111 million phones in Q3

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 26 October 2007

    ... period.  According to research firm iSuppli, Nokia's total shipments totaled 111.7 million units, up 10.8% over the company's previous quarter.  This Q3 growth exceeded the sum total ...

42. LCD TV prices rise in July but declines likely to resume in September

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 17 September 2007

    After declining or remaining stable for the past six months, the average selling price (ASP) for LCD TVs rose significantly in July and remained at a higher level in August, according to iSuppli. The increase ...

43. AMD's estimated Q2 market share higher than previously reported

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 September 2007

    iSuppli has issued revised estimates for AMD's second quarter 2007 market share by revenue. It's now reported that AMD saw more market share even stealing some from Intel. El Segundo (CA) - Positive ...

44. Copper to still be strong in broadband networks, says iSuppli

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Monday, 06 August 2007

    ... services. But does this mean that the days of copper are coming to an end? The answer is no, believes research firm iSuppli. More here at Digitimes.  ...

45. iPod and iPhone causing flash memory shortage – report

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 20 July 2007

    ... paying for now, according to a recent iPhone teardown by market research firm iSuppli.  Apple has locked in flash chip prices at approximately $6 for each 8 gigabit chip.  ...

46. Playstation 3 accounts for almost 90% of XDR memory shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 11 June 2007

    ... iSuppli analyst Nam Kim, however, believes that XDR “could lend itself to future graphics-intensive applications such as HDTV.” Currently available XDR devices run with up to 4 GHz, providing ...

47. Apple not getting rich with Apple TV

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 07 June 2007

    ... rumors about Apple TV not selling too well and now there is indication that the device also has a profit margin that is unusually low for Apple. According to a teardown analysis from iSuppli, Apple has ...

48. LCD panel prices on the increase again

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 20 April 2007

    ... released by iSuppli, the current price increases are coming after five months of oversupply and sharp price declines with 17” panels dropping by 19% and 19” panels by 18% in the fourth quarter ...

49. How AMD plans to sail through the "perfect storm"

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 April 2007

    ... its microprocessor/chipset department lost $321 million during Q1. However, market research firm iSuppli did a quick analysis of market data and came up with numbers that indicate that AMD’s battle ...

50. Quad-core CPUs to move into mainstream in 2009, iSuppli says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 17 April 2007

    ... will become more common over time, but it will take more than two years until these CPUs will be in more than half of all mainstream PCs, iSuppli predicts. El Segundo (CA) – If you are planning to ...