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Tuesday 9 April 2013
Case study of 2 AFE ICs confirms significant potential for small IC vendors, says Petrov Group
Can a small fabless analog vendor compete with the top-five analog IC vendors in global markets? This question is being asked often, especially in the context of emerging China-based...
Monday 10 December 2012
GaN-on-silicon for power conversion, who are the likely winners in the commercialization race, asks Petrov Group
The high importance of GaN-on-Si technology for power conversion applications is by now evident, says Boris Petrov, managing director of the Petrov Group. It is driven by cost and...
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Petrov Group provides breakdown of Texas Instruments business model (part 2)
The Petrov Group has announced a new 333-page/211-figure report titled "Texas Instrument's Power Business - Edition 2012". Texas Instruments (TI), the largest analog IC...
Monday 24 September 2012
Petrov Group provides breakdown of Texas Instruments business model (part 1)
The Petrov Group has announced a new 333-page/211-figure report titled "Texas Instrument's Power Business - Edition 2012". Texas Instruments (TI), the largest analog IC...
Friday 28 October 2011
RF transceiver market for mobile devices to reach 1.5 billion by 2015, says Petrov Group (part 2)
RF transceivers are critical components of mobile devices including handsets/smartphones and tablet PCs. By 2015, the total RF transceiver market will reach 1.5 billion units while...
Friday 21 October 2011
Standalone transceiver chips to dominate the smartphone market, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Transceivers are essential to the performance of mobile devices. They are designed to detect weak signals at a specific frequency when receiving and to send signals at a specific...
Tuesday 3 May 2011
Baseband processors still essential, says Petrov Group
With the proliferation of tablets and smartphones application processors are in the limelight, but another group of mobile processors, basebands, deserve attention too, according...
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Integrated mobile processors to challenge standalone application processors, says Petrov Group (part 2)
Recently several handset IC companies have announced integrated mobile processors – products that integrate baseband processor and application processor together with graphics...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Standalone application processors are wining in mobility markets, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Several years ago there was a widely accepted expectation that application mobile processors would be fully integrated with baseband processors on a single chip. However, today we...
Friday 29 October 2010
Adoption by Intel makes digital controllers mainstream technology, says Petrov Group
The next generation of Intel's power architecture, VR12, to be introduced in the third quarter of 2011 represents a watershed industry event, according to Boris Petrov, managing director...
Thursday 21 October 2010
Li-Ion/Poly batteries drive high growth of battery management ICs from headsets to electric vehicles, says Petrov Group
The requirement for power-efficient and high performance solutions in Li-Ion/Poly battery-powered devices and equipment continues to open profitable growth opportunities for existing...
Thursday 23 September 2010
Explosive growth of LED driver ICs truly unparalleled, says Petrov Group
A bottom-up analysis of product portfolio, business performance, and technology and manufacturing trends of 25 IC vendors confirms the explosive growth of LED driver ICs, according...
Tuesday 24 August 2010
Thirty billion power conversion ICs enable power management applications, says Petrov Group
The analog power conversion IC segment dominates the power management market; it accounts for about 30 billion units and US$11 billion revenues with a forecast average growth rate...
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Power management ICs in portable devices represent nearly 40% of total analog IC revenues, says Petrov Group
The annual unit growth rate for portable devices is estimated at more than 12%, from about two billion in 2008 to over 3.4 billion devices in 2013. These devices have an increasing...
Monday 2 August 2010
STM is the market share leader in ESD and EMI protection devices, says Petrov Group
The market for electro-static discharge (ESD) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) protection devices is nearly invisible. However, it is a large (US$6 billion and 16+ billion unit...