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Friday 23 December 2011
Semiconductor sales for smart meters to boom, says IHS
Because of their capability to save energy and to improve the efficiency of electrical grids, power utilities are expected to rapidly adopt smart electricity meters, causing global...
Friday 2 December 2011
Intel reasserts semiconductor market leadership in 2011, says IHS
After three years of seeing its dominant position in the global semiconductor market whittled away by aggressive competition from Samsung Electronics, Intel is set to reverse the...
Tuesday 19 July 2011
ARM to have big slice of notebook market in 2015, says IHS
After more than 30 years of domination by a single microarchitecture - Intel's X86 - the PC microprocessor (MPU) market finally is set for some real competition with shipments of...
Thursday 14 July 2011
Quad-core microprocessors in half of notebooks in 2015, says IHS
After making major inroads into the desktop market, quad-core PC microprocessors now are set to conquer the notebook segment, with about half of the mobile computers shipped in 2015...
Thursday 2 June 2011
MIPS: More than 90% of Android apps can run on any processor architecture
Android has been a hot topic at Computex Taipei this year, with various players discussing the pros and cons of developing apps for the respective hardware platforms such as ARM or...
Monday 23 May 2011
Intel extends lead over Samsung in 1Q11, says IC Insights
IC Insights has issued its revealed ranking of the top semiconductor suppliers in the first quarter of 2011. Intel remained firmly in control of the number one spot in the ranking,...
Thursday 3 March 2011
Apple builds on A4 microprocessor success with A5 announcement, says IHS iSuppli
Driven by the soaring sales of products including the iPad and the iPhone 4, Apple's shipments of products based on its A4 microprocessor reached nearly 50 million units in 2010 from...
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Toward increased mobility: Q&A with ARM president Tudor Brown
More than 20 billion ARM-powered processors have been shipped by semiconductor and system companies worldwide over the past 20 years, and the number is expected to top 100 billion...
Friday 15 January 2010
Intel announces 4Q09 revenues of US$10.6 billion
Intel has reported fourth-quarter 2009 revenues of US$10.6 billion, operating income of US$2.5 billion, net income of US$2.3 billion and an EPS of US$0.40.
Monday 23 November 2009
DDR3 to be mainstream in 2Q10, says iSuppli
DDR3 shipments will rise to account for more than half of the global DRAM market by the second quarter of 2010, surpassing DDR2 for the first time as the leading technology for PC...
Monday 28 September 2009
AppliedMicro-TSMC partner on embedded processors
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AppliedMicro, formerly AMCC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly announced a collaboration enabling AppliedMicro's...
Thursday 12 June 2008
SIA lowers 2008 semiconductor sales growth forecast
Healthy demand from key end-markets will keep worldwide semiconductor sales at record levels through 2011, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said recently. However, continued...