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The Average Annual Unit Growth Rate of Analog Ics Has Increased to 8.9 Percent
Aug 15, 2014The average annual unit growth rate of analog ICs has increased to 8.9 percent for the forecast period of 2013 to 2018, outpacing all other major IC product segments and total IC shipment growth, which is pegged at 7.2 percent growth, ...
Tags: IC, Electrical, Electronics
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Market Leaders Continue to Make The Lion's Share of Investment
Mar 24, 2014Semiconductor capital spending is on the rise and market leaders continue to make the lion's share of investment, the soon-to-be-released March Update to the 2014 McClean Report reported. In fact, Samsung, Intel, and TSMC together will ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics
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The Worldwide Semiconductor Market Is Set to Grow 7% in 2014
Feb 24, 2014The worldwide semiconductor market is set to grow 7% in 2014 following 5% growth last year, according to industry researcher IC Insights, which released its McClean Report 2014 in January. Although the outlook calls for steady improvement ...
Tags: Semiconductor Market
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Intel Is Delaying Opening Its 14-Nm Fab 42 in Arizona
Jan 20, 2014Intel is delaying opening its 14-nm Fab 42 in Chandler, Arizona, as demand for PC microprocessors continues to decline. As reported by Reuters, the facility was initially intended to produce Intel’s most advanced processors ...
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Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei and Yulong/Coolpad Shipped a Combined 98 Million Smartphones in 2012
Nov 13, 2013Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei and Yulong/Coolpad have taken advantage of the surging low-end smartphone market. According to IC Insights, the four major China-based handset companies are forecast to ship 168 million smartphones in 2013 and together ...
Tags: Smartphone, Lenovo, Huawei
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IC Insights Published Its List of The Top Semiconductor Sales Leaders
Aug 27, 2013In its Research Bulletin dated August 2, 2013, IC Insights published its list of the top semiconductor sales leaders for the first half of 2013. The list showed the usual big-time players that we've come to expect like Intel, Samsung, and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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McClean Report Will Show a Ranking of The Top 25 Semiconductor Suppliers in 1H13
Aug 13, 2013Later this month, IC Insights’ August Update to the 2013 McClean Report will show a ranking of the top 25 semiconductor suppliers in 1H13. A preview of the top 20 companies is listed in Figure 1. The top 20 worldwide semiconductor ...
Tags: Semiconductor Supplier
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China IC Production Is Forecast to Exhibit a Very Strong 2012-2017 CAGR of 17.6 Percent
Aug 5, 2013IC Insights’ new 250-page Mid-Year Update to the 2013 McClean Report, which is slated to be released by the end of July, describes why a very clear distinction should be made between the IC market (i.e., consumption) in China and IC ...
Tags: IC Companies, IC Production
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Intel Rival AMD Has Slipped up in Terms of Microprocessor Market Share
May 28, 2013Intel rival AMD has slipped up in terms of microprocessor market share, according to box-counting analysts IC Insights, with Qualcomm and Samsung leapfrogging it into second and third place respectively. Strong sales of tablet computers ...
Tags: AMD, Intel, Microprocessor Market
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Intel Has Lost Ground as The World's Top Semiconductor Company to Chip Suppliers Benefits
May 15, 2013As Intel mulls a plan to expand its contract-manufacturing operations, the company has lost ground as the world's top semiconductor company to chip suppliers benefitting from the success of mobile devices, according to a study by IC ...
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MCU Destroyed by Price Erosion as Competition Intensified in 32-Bit Microcontrollers
Apr 27, 2013In 2012, MCU unit shipments surged 16%, but total revenues declined 3% and ASPs plunged 17%, says IC Insights. While uncertainty about the global economy played a factor in lowering MCU revenues, the market was significantly ...
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The Memory Market Is Feeling The Effects of a Fall in PC Shipments
Apr 17, 2013The memory market is feeling the effects of a fall in PC shipments with the subsequent stabilization of DRAM prices, which industry observers say will delay the wide adoption of the upcoming DRAM called DDR4. The latest PCs and servers ...
Tags: DDR4 Memory, Computer Products
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More Than a Quarter of The World's Wafer Capacity Is for Processes Better Than 40nm
Apr 7, 2013More than a quarter of the world's wafer capacity is for processes better than 40nm, says IC Insights. At the end of 2012, about 27% of global wafer capacity was for devices having geometries smaller than 40nm. Such devices include ...
Tags: IC, Consumer Electronics, Electrical, Electronics
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Samsung Is up Against Apple in Many Ways, in Products, Sales and Innovation
Apr 4, 2013It's no secret that Samsung is up against Apple in many ways, in products, sales and innovation. However, even in the face of Apple's patent infringement lawsuits, Samsung is still climbing the charts. The electronics giant sold ...
Tags: Samsung, Consumer Electronics, apple
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The LED Operation Added $1.5 Billion to Samsung's Total Revenues in 2012
Mar 21, 2013Samsung Electronics catapulted to the top of the optoelectronics supplier ranking in 2012 from 12th place in 2011 after it gained full ownership of Samsung LED, a 50-50 joint venture in light-emitting diodes that was created in 2009 between ...
Tags: Samsung, Optoelectronics, Electronics