Intel's R&D spending rose 20%, while Samsung's stood at 8% during 2012 Semiconductor R&D spending has increased 7% to $53bn in 2012, despite weak a semiconductor market. The semiconductor market fell 1% to $317.6bn last year. According ...
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Worldwide semiconductor sales in December were $24.7bn - up 3.8% on December 2011, says WSTS. For the year, sales were $291.6bn - down 2.7% on 2011. But European sales in December were $2.6bn - down 5.5% on December 2011. On a total ...
IDG News Service - Increased sales of electronics and new forms of computing devices will drive the worldwide semiconductor market to growth this year after a slowdown in 2012, the nonprofit organization World Semiconductor Trade Statistics ...
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Together they consumed $45.3bn of semiconductors during the year Samsung has overtaken Apple by becoming the top global semiconductor consumer in 2012, according to a new report from Gartner. Gartner's design total available market ...
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The semiconductor market will grow 7.9% this year, Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons, told IFS2013 in London this morning. However Penn added: “Last year I forecast 8% growth, and I said that was a safe bet and it turned out to ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has agreed to acquire the Kopin Wireless compound semiconductor epiwafer manufacturing division of Kopin Corp of Taunton, MA, USA (including its leased manufacturing ...
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Computerworld-The PC industry got another does of sour news Friday when Intel announced it's cutting its third-quarter revenue outlook. The world's largest chip maker lowered its revenue forecast from an expected$13.8 billion to$14.8 ...
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The worldwide chip market dropped from being labeled "stagnant" to "in a slump" this year, with one analyst firm downgrading its forecast to a level that puts the entire year in a decline. IHS iSuppli announced Monday that it is ...
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Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting and other clean energy markets, has appointed Dr. Philip C.S. Yin ...
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IDG News Service - ARM showed strong growth in an otherwise weak semiconductor market, with robust demand for smartphone and tablet processors driving profit and revenue growth in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday. The ...
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If the PC industry can't come up with a better way to make the PC a part of our Internet-crazed lives, then it will continue down its current path to becoming a has-been in the high-tech world. That's the message from Intel CTO Justin ...
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Computerworld - Intel needs to generate a lot of excitement at its annual developers conference this week -- not just around the company but also around the whole PC industry. After Intel lowered its third-quarter revenue forecast last ...
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Qualcomm saw a double-digit increase in sales this year and is now the world's third-largest chip maker, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. With a 27.2% growth in semiconductor revenue, Qualcomm is booming while seven of the top 10 ...
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The top three foundries are in the world top ten semiconductor companies ranked by first half sales, says IC Insights. TSMC's capacity utilization rate in 2Q12 was 102% (exceeding 100% because of the way the company defines its ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that existing customer UMI Georgia Tech-CNRS in Metz, France has bought a 3x2”-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) ...
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