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China IC Design Firms to Keep Growing Amid Lively Local Front
A dynamic domestic market in China will help spur the country’s local integrated-circuit (IC) design industry to double-digit growth this year ...
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Led by Smartphones, China’s Electronics Market Set for Stronger Year in 2013
Amid a rise in economic growth and the implementation of government policies designed to stimulate demand, China’s electronics market is ...
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MEMS Revenue to Climb a Healthy 8 Percent This Year
A strong uptake in consumer and mobile devices will power the market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to solid revenue growth in 2013 ...
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Mobile Handsets to Claim Largest Market Share in 2013 as Foremost Consumer of Flash Memory
Mobile handsets are set to become the single largest consumer of flash memory in 2013, reaffirming the device’s pre-eminence in the space amid ...
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Outsourced Manufacturing Industry Set to Enjoy Modest Lift This Year
Despite lingering weakness in the global economy and continuing market uncertainties, the outsourced manufacturing industry ...
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Power Management to Continue Down in Q1, but Overall Growth is Forecast for 2013
Power management semiconductors will continue to experience softness in the first quarter, echoing the weak performance of the previous period ...
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Supply of Tablet Displays Soars 78.2 Percent in 2013
The available area-fab capacity area for both liquid crystal displays (LCD) and active-matrix organic light-emitting diode ...
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Taiwanese Suffer Greatly Diluted Presence in Global DRAM Market
The loss or reallocation of Taiwanese-branded dynamic random access memory (DRAM) wafer capacity will cause a shift this year in the global DRAM market ...
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Wireless Boosts OEM Spending on Semiconductors in 2013
Buoyed by spending on handsets, tablets and wireless infrastructure, global OEM purchasing of semiconductors is expected to grow by 6.2 percent ...
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Hard Disk Drive Market Revenue Set to Decline This Year
Facing a relentless onslaught from tablets, smartphones, and solid state drives (SSD), global hard disk drive (HDD) market revenue in 2013 ...
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Outsourced Manufacturing Industry Update: Jabil to acquire Nypro to further diversify revenues
On February 4, 2013 Jabil announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Clinton, MA-based Nypro for $665 million in cash. Nypro is a $1.2 billion maker of precision plastics for the...
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AMOLED Televisions Presented at CES, but Volume Remains Limited
A focus at this year’s CES was the announcement of active-matrix organic light-emitting-diode (AMOLED) televisions by leading TV makers ...
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DRAM Revenue to Climb in 2013, but Risk Factors Persist
Revenue this year for the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) industry will rise in the double digits despite being clobbered by weak PC sales ...
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Magnetometers Resonate with Strong Double-Digit Growth in 2013
The growing use of magnetometers or electronic compasses in smartphones and tablets for navigation and other advanced-motion uses ...
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NAND Flash Revenue Contracted in 2012 after Disappointing Results
Apple Inc.’s iPhone was the single largest driver of NAND flash consumption in 2012, amid negative revenue growth in that memory market ...
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Smartphones with Larger and Higher-Resolution Displays, Tablets and OLED TVs Shine at CES
A focus on high-resolution, larger displays for smartphones, lower-priced tablets and advanced organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) televisions ...
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Third-Party DRAM Module Makers Suffer Lowest Revenue Levels in Two Years
Revenue for third-party dynamic random access memory (DRAM) module makers fell to a two-year low toward the end of last year as the PC market ...
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Chip Inventory at Semiconductor Suppliers Reaches Worrisome High
Semiconductor revenue is projected to decline in the first quarter this year after chip inventory held by semiconductor suppliers reached record high levels ...
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In Repeat of 2012, Solid State Drives Can Expect Strong Prospects
Solid state drives (SSD) will remain a bright spot in the storage industry for 2013, with robust growth predicted this year as markets continue warming ...
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Automotive Display Shipments to Soar 89 Percent in Four Years
Driven by increasing use in both midrange and economy-class vehicles, shipments of in-car automotive displays will nearly double during the four-year period from 2012 to 2016 ...
