2016-07-19 - IC Insights

Mobile IC market to reach $94B in 2019

The cellphone IC market CAGR is forecast to exceed the total IC market by as much as three points during…

2016-07-15 - Semi

Foundries to drive chip equipment spending growth in 2017

Equipment spending had a slow start in the beginning of 2016, but it is expected to accelerate in the second…

2016-07-14 -

Global PC shipments slide in Q2: Gartner

Lenovo maintains the top position in global PC shipments in the second quarter of 2016, despite a 2.2% drop in…

2016-07-13 - Gary Hilson

China steers global chip sales away from red

Month-to-month sales into all regional markets has held relatively steady, with China leading the way with 3.1% market growth.

2016-07-05 - Dylan McGrath

Job cuts loom at Micron amidst memory chip supply glut

Micron expects to save about $80 million per quarter in the next fiscal year through a combination of job cuts…

2016-06-28 - None

Semicon output boosts Singapore’s manufacturing sector

The electronics sector took a hit in May, but that was offset by increases in the semiconductor and other electronic…

2016-06-14 - Dylan McGrath

China to see growth in autonomous vehicle sales by 2035

By 2035, IHS Automotive projects that 5.7 million vehicles sold in China will be equipped with some level of autonomy,…

2016-06-10 - Dylan McGrath

Semiconductor sales to drop by 2.4% in 2016: SIA

The WSTS and SIA had been saying since late last year that they expected semiconductor sales to increase slightly in…

2016-06-09 - Dylan McGrath

Global fab tool billings plunge 13% in Q4

Capital equipment billings in China has reached $1.6 billion in Q1, up 39% compared with 1Q15 and up 60% compared…

2016-06-06 - None

Expect NAND flash demand to return by second half of 2016

End-of-market demand for NAND flash is picking up and is expected to cause a supply-demand balance by the third quarter…

2016-05-26 - Peter Clarke

Foundries’ sales show chip market slowdown’s not yet over

TSMC's sales in April 2016 were NT$66.84 billion (about $1.99 billion) down 8.5 per cent on April 2015, while UMC's…

2016-05-23 - Gartner

Global smartphone sales climb 3.9% in 1Q16

Sales were driven by demand for low-cost smartphones in emerging markets and for affordable 4G smartphones, led by 4G connectivity…