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1. ZTE to make its own LTE 4G chips

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... extensively in its wide range of mobile handsets and USB modems. In fact, Qualcomm should be able to start commercial shipments of its LTE chips next month (December 2009). Mr Shen estimates that it will ...

2. Microprocessor sales aided by Atom smasher

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   All time record quarter A report from market research organization IDC said that unit shipments of microprocessors jumped by 23 percent in the third quarter, compared to Q2 2009. Notebook processors led ...

3. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... me – reached a record for shipments during the third quarter of 2003, with 43.3 million units shipped, up 4.2 percent from the 41.5 million units shipped in the same calendar quarter last year. “With ...

4. AMD culls Phenoms

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 03 November 2009

   ... 2009 and will completely stop shipments in the second quarter of 2010. The Phenom II X4 965 (3.4GHz/140W) and 925 (2.8GHz/95W) CPUs will make its final walk in the first quarter of 2010, while orders ...

5. Mobile phone market shows signs of recovery

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 30 October 2009

   ... is still negative, with shipments down six percent compared to last year, but up 5.6 percent compared to the last calendar quarter.  Shipments amounted to 287.1 million units in the third quarter. ...

6. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... notebook shipments next year. MSI expects notebook shipments will grow more than 10 percent sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2009 thanks mainly to Windows 7, but a shortage of optical drives and DRAM ...

7. Large area TFT-LCDs continue to grow

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   The September shipments of large area TFT-LCD panels hit 52 million units, an augury of better times ahead.The September shipments of large area TFT-LCD panels hit 52 million units, an augury of better ...

8. AMD makes loss, but profits from it

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 15 October 2009

   ... resulted in AMD Product Company achieving profitability in the third quarter." He put that down to growth in CPU and graphics unit shipments. "Growth in microprocessor and graphics unit shipments drove ...

9. Acer beats up Dell on shipments

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 14 October 2009

   ... faster than expected. According to Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 80.9 million units in the third quarter of 2009, up 0.5 percent from the third quarter of 2008. The results surprised the analyst ...

10. Intel reverses semiconductor recession

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... Intel's chief financal officer said: "Intel delivered exceptional financial results in the third quarter. Better than expected shipments of microprocessors and chipset businesses led to revenue of $9.4 ...

11. Amazon chops Kindle price again

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... First shipments are slated for October 19, but Amazon is accepting pre-orders at $279 a pop. “Kindle is the most wished for, the most gifted, and the #1 bestselling product across the millions of ...

12. Apple's new Macs better be cheap

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... that its desktop shipments dropped 10 percent to 849,000. However, its portables jumped 13 percent to 1.75 million. To drum up interest in its desktop iMacs and to sustain growth with its laptops the company ...

13. Consumer notebooks save PC bacon

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    Shipments of PCs worldwide fell by 19.1 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to last year, and sales of commercial notebooks stayed depressed.Shipments of PCs worldwide fell by 19.1 percent ...

14. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... with global shipments rising by 1 percent from the first quarter," explained iSuppli analyst Michael Wilkins. "However, with PC shipments still down compared to a year earlier, Intel actually suffered ...

15. Microsoft cleared in Russian antitrust case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    The Russian anti-monopoly watchdog, FAS, says it has found no violation of antitrust law in Microsoft's cutbacks in shipments of Windows XP. Moscow, Russia - The Russian anti-monopoly watchdog, FAS, ...

16. Acer snaps hard at HP's heels

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 02 September 2009

    Acer is close to its target of becoming number one notebook vendor in the world. Acer is close to its target of becoming number one notebook vendor in the world. The company reckons its notebook shipments ...

17. Netbooks rocket in popularity - especially when they're free

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 31 August 2009

      Netbooks are experiencing a surge in popularity, with shipments growing twice as fast as for larger notebooks. Netbooks are experiencing a surge in popularity, with shipments growing twice as ...

18. Large TFT LCD growth continues, prices rise

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    Displaysearch released figures for sales of large area TFT LCD panels in July and said shipments of 49.2 million units is a record for the sector.Displaysearch released figures for sales of large area ...

19. Dell holds out hope for PC industry

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    ... of its armory.  Dell figures show that while shipments of PCs rose 17 percent in the quarter from the same period last year, its margin on these products is very slim. The figures show that sales ...

20. China mulls export ban on hi-tech minerals

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... 2009-2015, says foreign shipments of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium should be blocked, while other metals such as neodymium, europium, cerium, and lanthanum will be subject to an export ...

21. TSMC's 28nm process on track

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 23 August 2009

    TSMC says it has become the first company to produce 28nm 64Mb SRAM and that its 28nm development and ramp-up is on track for first shipments in early 2010. Hsinchu, Taiwan, TSMC says it has become ...

22. PC industry staggering back - reports

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... third quarter, although sales will still be down 16.7 percent year on year. Meanwhile, Taiwanese news wire Digitimes reports that notebook shipments from Taiwanese manufacturers are set to grow by between ...

23. Japanese earthquake stops supply of glass to LCD makers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... lower than originally planned for the third quarter. At the present time it does not appear that this outage will have a material impact on our fourth quarter shipments," he said. Sequential volumes of ...

24. Chip market rebounds in Q2, but IDC cautious on Q3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 06 August 2009

    Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments in the second quarter rose significantly, says IDC. While the increase is 'unusually positive' for the second quarter, IDC reckons that Intel and OEM inventory ...

25. Lenovo turns in a loss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... 48 percent of the company's worldwide sales. Shipments in China grew by 15 percent year on year. Sales in what Lenovo defines as emerging markets represented 14 percent of sales worldwide, and turned ...

26. ARM rules the smartphone roost

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    The market for smartphones continues to buck the trend, with shipments growing by 23 percent between 2008 and 2009, according to analyst firm Ovum. London, UK - The market for smartphones continues ...

27. Intel confirms problem with solid state drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 31 July 2009

      Chip giant Intel has confirmed that it is "pausing shipments" of SSD drives because of a password problem on its 34 nanometer NAND flash based drives. Chip giant Intel has confirmed that it is ...

28. Nintendo Wii sales plummet 57 percent

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    Nintendo has confirmed that sales of its family-oriented Wii console plummeted by a shocking 57 percent. The company blamed a lack of "blockbuster software titles" for the significant decrease in shipments. ...

29. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    The results are out for graphics shipments and market share in the second quarter of 2009 and AMD appears to rule the roost.The results are out for graphics shipments and market share in the second quarter ...

30. 9% of U.S. households subscribe to Netflix

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 24 July 2009

    ... per user “due to the growing popularity of our lower priced plans that include unlimited content delivered both by streaming and by DVD by mail.” Still, the company said that its shipments of DVD and ...

31. Consumer electronics spending expected to drop by 7.7% in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    ... 2009, down about 7.7% from 2008. However, the decline is due to lower product prices, not contracting unit shipments, the CEA said. Arlington (VA) – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has updated ...

32. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    ... equipment. Toshiba has come a long way and may enter the Blu-ray market when there is still room to claim its stakes. According to the Consumer Electronics Association, unit shipments of Blu-ray players ...

33. Nintendo Wii surrenders market share in weak game console market

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 17 July 2009

    ... shipments (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360) dropped to 642,000, down from 1.149 million in March and down from 1.089 million in April 2008. The drop continued to about 596,000 in May, which represented a 24 month low, ...

34. Graphics market has worst ever year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ...  That's according to Jon Peddie Research, and there's more to this sad picture than meets the eye. Peddie says that graphics chip shipments - say that when you've had a few - are a leading market ...

35. Dell down but netbook sales save PC day

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    ... was to be expected. Shipments were positive.And now for the winners and losers in the PC desperation derby. As the following table shows, HP held the top spot while Dell showed a steep decline. Unit shipments ...

36. PC shipments fall for first time in years

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    For 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. El Segundo, CA - For ...

37. Expect lots of OLED TVs by Yuletide

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... director of display tech at Displaysearch, said: "AMOLED displays have become an important differentiating feature for high end electronic products. AMOLED is likely to  pass PMOLEDs in unit shipments ...

38. Supply problems hit panel manufacturers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ...  As a result, panel manufacturers were unable to supply sufficient panels to meet the demand of rush orders. Taiwanese notebook PC panel shipments in the first quarter dropped by approximately 36 ...

39. Is Microsoft set up for failure with Windows 7 and Office 2010?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... PC market that only sees shipments of netbooks growing. Windows 7 has about six months of sales this year (including the current pre-sales; the software will be officially available on October 22.) and ...

40. 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 ...

41. Microsoft predicts 177 million Windows 7 shipments by year end

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    What was good enough isn't good enough any more, says Microsoft's Bill Veghte, banging the final nail into Windows Vista's coffin and consigning everyone's least favourite operating system to history. ...

42. Netbooks start to flatten notebook sales

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    Intel had better hope it gets sufficient volumes from its Atom CPUs because according to a major research company, sales of notebooks are starting to flatten while netbook shipments will double this ...

43. Windows 7 faces an upgrade uphill struggle

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... Intel and AMD, who reported that corporations and large organizations were keeping a tight control on their purse strings with server chip shipments being particularly affected.When asked how IT departments ...

44. Things looking up for semiconductor market, says iSuppli

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

    ... says the automotive sector is pulling the market down, with the decline of worldwide automobile sales - particularly in North America - having a major impact on overall electronic equipment shipments. ...

45. Samsung moves ARM to 45nm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 28 June 2009

    ... on an ARM1176 CPU core running at 533MHz or 667MHz, with the 64-bit AXI bus running at 166MHz. The chip supports both Windows CE and Linux, says the company and is sampling now for volume shipments in ...

46. Price rises loom on notebook, monitor glass shortage

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    ... continue  to climb on products using them, well into July. Displaysearch released a set of figures for May shipments of large area TFT LCD panels - 43.3 million shipped and that's up eight percent ...

47. PC shipments suffer 23 percent slump

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    Market watcher iSuppli says PC shipments have fallen by the most it has seen in seven years of keeping tabs on the industry. El Segundo (CA) Market watcher iSuppli says PC shipments have fallen by the ...

48. Solid state drive sales stalled

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    ... SSDs used in notebooks and netbooks continues to decline, resulting in "sloppy overall SSD shipments". SSD drives still cost over four times more than regular hard drives per GB, and there are also concerns ...

49. Netbooks slow decline of PC market, but bring new headaches

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 11 June 2009

    ... would not be there otherwise. They are eating into the traditional notebook market, the cash machine of the industry. When IDC published its Q1 PC shipments report this morning, we weren’t particularly ...

50. Apple WWDC: How to take on Windows 7

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 10 June 2009

    ... can mitigate this scenario a bit by gaming the system.What I mean by that is they know that market momentum is generally measured by shipments, not sales, and that a September launch means they can load ...