Apple and Samsung Electronics will be top OEM semiconductor spenders for wireless communications. The growth of handsets, tablets and wireless infrastructure will drive global OEM purchasing of semiconductors to $280bn in 2013, up6.2% ...
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Micro server shipments are expected to triple this year, says IHS. 291,000 micro servers will be shipped this year an increase of 230% from the 88,000 units of 2012. Shipments of micro servers commenced in 2011 with just 19,000 ...
Wireless will lead IC spending this year growing by 13.5% to $69.6 billion, says IHS. Of the other six major IC application areas, five will show growth of up to 6.5% and one will decline 1.7%. Total semiconductor spending will rise ...
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IDG News Service - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC will release phones with screens larger than 5 inches, and develop more budget-friendly handsets for the Chinese market, its chief financial officer said Monday. "We will not limit ...
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Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...
STMicroelectronics says it has shipped three billion MEMS sensors to date. ST’s total MEMS and sensor sales grew more than 19% in 2012, reaching a total of approximately $800m, according to market analyst IHS. ST’s MEMS ...
Growing at a faster rate than the overall U.S. economy, the nonresidential construction industry is expected to see solid, yet measured, increases in activity this year. High demand for hotels and retail projects have the commercial sector ...
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Apple today doubled the maximum storage space of its fourth-generation iPad to 128GB, and announced it would start selling the new tablet next week. The Wi-Fi-only 128GB iPad will cost $799, while the cellular-enabled model will run $929. ...
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Could the personal healthcare and fitness market be an important target for BlackBerry's 4G smart phone, the BlackBerry 10? The inclusion of Bluetooth Smart and NFC follows the trend we have seen from other smartphone suppliers such as ...
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Global solar installations will rise this year in a continuing pattern of solid growth, but the industry will nonetheless suffer a decline in overall revenue due to lower volume growth and decreasing system prices, according to IHS. Solar ...
Global installations of photovoltaic (PV) systems are set to rise again this year, but the industry will suffer a decline in overall revenues because of a slowing growth rate and decreasing system prices. That’s the latest ...
For every person using 4G LTE now, there will be at least one more subscriber by the end of this year, IHS iSuppli says. The number of users on LTE services will slightly more than double in 2013, growing by 115% to 198.1 million people ...
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Wireless remote monitoring devices will be used by more than 1.8 million people worldwide in four years, representing a six-fold increase in adoption of telehealth technology, according to a new study by InMedica, part of research firm IHS. ...
IHS iSuppli said on Tuesday that the number of 4G LTE users will at least double by the end of 2013, growing by 115% to 198.1 million people worldwide. At the end of 2012, there were 92.3 million subscribers, iSuppli said. Many ...
In 2011, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas, growing by 7.7% between 2010 and 2011. That represented the largest volumetric increase in the world, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World ...
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