Worldwide PC shipments on pace to decline 2% in 2009, says Gartner

Sep 24, 16:31

The worst may be over for the PC industry, as worldwide PC shipments are on pace to reach 285 million units in 2009, a 2% decline from 2008 shipments of 291 million units, according...

Innolux expected to become top LCD monitor maker in 4Q09, says paper

Newswatch - Sep 22, 17:11

Innolux Display is estimated to replace TPV Technology to become the largest LCD monitor maker worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a Chinese-language Economic...

Worldwide server market constraints continue in 2Q09, says Gartner

Sep 4, 17:07

Worldwide server shipments dropped 28% on-year in the second quarter of 2009, while revenues fell 29.4pp on-year, according to Gartner.

Samsung maintains global LCD TV lead in 2Q09, says iSuppli

Sep 4, 15:39

Samsung Electronics' worldwide LCD TV shipments for the second quarter of 2009 amounted to 5.7 million units, up from 5.1 million units in the first quarter, the largest unit increase...

Samsung aims at 20% notebook CIS market share in 2009, say IC distributors

Newswatch - Aug 25, 11:48

Samsung Electronics has set an internal goal of attaining a 20% share in the global notebook CMOS image sensor (CIS) market in 2009 and an over 30% share in 2010, according to Taiwan-based...

Worldwide handset sales decline 6% while smartphones grow 27% in 2Q09, says Gartner

Aug 14, 16:52

Worldwide handset sales totaled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 6.1% decrease from the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales surpassed...

Asia-Pacific region will have 39% of cellular towers worldwide by 2014, says ABI Research

Aug 14, 16:29

The Asia-Pacific region will see huge numbers of cellular towers built over the next five years, with demand driven by the massive, rapid increase in mobile subscribers in China and...

Worldwide PC processor market rebounds in 2Q09, says IDC

Aug 7, 12:03

Worldwide PC processor shipments in the second quarter of 2009 rose notably, according to new data from IDC. While the increase was unusually positive for the second quarter of a...

Smartphone growth encouraging, yet worldwide handset market still expected to shrink in 2009, says IDC

Jul 31, 15:50

The worldwide handset market recorded another quarter of on-year decline in the second quarter of 2009. According to IDC, handset vendors shipped a total of 269.6 million units worldwide,...

China will surpass Japan in 2014 to become largest telecom services market in Asia, says Pyramid Research

Jul 27, 14:34

Fueled by mobile penetration into the rural market and by uptake of 3G services, China's telecommunications market will generate US$187 billion by 2014, surpassing Japan to become...

Worldwide PC shipments decline 5% in 2Q09, says Gartner

Jul 16, 16:46

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 5% decline from the second quarter of 2008, according to preliminary results from Gartner. The market...

Global OLED display revenues to grow to US$7.1 billion by 2016, says DisplaySearch

Jul 15, 12:12

Global OLED display market will grow to US$7.1 billion by 2016, from US$600 million in 2008, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36%, according to DisplaySearch.

Mini-note shipments to reach more than 30 million units in 2009, says DisplaySearch

Jul 14, 14:36

DisplaySearch expects shipments of almost 33 million mini-notes (netbooks) in 2009 as penetration of these products into the notebook market grows to 20% worldwide. At the same time,...

Worldwide IT spending on pace to decline 6% in 2009, says Gartner

Jul 8, 16:49

Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total US$3.2 trillion in 2009, a 6% decline from 2008 spending of US$3.4 trillion, according to Gartner. Continued weak IT spending because of...

Worldwide mobile service revenues to grow at least 1.2% annually through 2014, says ABI Research

Jun 23, 16:34

Even under the worst recovery scenarios, mobile service revenues will continue to grow at nearly 1.2% annually through 2014, according to ABI Research.

Worldwide handset market declines 12% in 1Q09, says ABI Research

Jun 15, 14:01

The first quarter of 2009 fulfilled an expected trend that will last throughout the calendar year. The worldwide handset market shipped 35 million fewer units than it did during the...

Worldwide server revenues and shipments drop in 1Q09, say IDC and Gartner

Jun 10, 13:35

Factory revenues in the worldwide server market declined 24.5% on year to US$9.9 billion in the first quarter of 2009. This is the third consecutive quarter of on-year revenue decline...

Global storage market shrinks in 1Q09, says Gartner

Jun 8, 11:29

Revenues for the external controller-based disk storage market worldwide totaled US$3.8 billion in the first quarter of 2009, an 11.1% decline from the same period in 2008, according...

Chip sales forecast revised to less fall for 2009, says Gartner

Jun 1, 11:11

Worldwide semiconductor revenues are forecast to reach US$198 billion in 2009, a 22.4% decline from 2008 revenues of US$255 billion, according to Gartner. This outlook is slightly...

Worldwide handset sales decline about 9% while smartphones grow almost 13% in 1Q09, says Gartner

May 22, 16:41

Worldwide handset sales totaled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 8.6% decrease from the first quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales surpassed...

Worldwide processor market remained weak in 1Q09, says IDC

May 12, 16:37

Worldwide PC processor shipments in the first calendar quarter of 2009 fell significantly for the second quarter in a row, according to new data from IDC. While the decline was slightly...

Worldwide handset shipments decline almost 16% in 1Q09, says IDC

May 5, 11:35

The worldwide handset market began 2009 with an expected sequential downturn, exacerbated by the challenges of the ongoing worldwide recession. According to IDC, vendors shipped a...

Chip sales in March rebound slightly, says SIA

May 4, 15:42

Worldwide sales of semiconductors were US$14.7 billion in March 2009, a gain of 3.3% from the prior month when sales were US$14.2 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry...

Worldwide front projector shipments drop 9% on-year in 1Q09, PMA says

May 4, 10:15

Worldwide front projector sell-in shipments were 1.26 million in the first quarter of 2009, a 9% decline over the first quarter of 2008 as the impact of the economic recession weighed...

Solar downturn leads to more mature PV industry, says iSuppli

Apr 20, 10:16

The severe downturn in the global photovoltaic (PV) market in 2009 actually could have a positive outcome for the worldwide solar industry, yielding a more mature and orderly supply...

Worldwide PC shipments declined 6.5% in 1Q09, says Gartner

Apr 16, 12:33

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 67.2 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 6.5% decline versus first-quarter 2008, according to preliminary results from Gartner.

Worldwide semiconductor revenues contract more than 5% in 2008, Gartner says

Apr 9, 10:19

Worldwide semiconductor revenues went down 5.4%, or a decrease of US$14.5 billion, to US$255 billion in 2008, according to the final market share analysis by Gartner Dataquest. The...

Strong netbook demand to buoy notebook market in 2009, says DisplaySearch

Apr 2, 14:09

Despite what is looking to be a rather dismal year for the PC industry as a whole, netbooks are forecast to grow at more than 65% on year in 2009, while the traditional notebook PC...

Smartphone market share increases rapidly worldwide, says AdMob

Mar 26, 15:15

Despite challenging economic conditions, smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26% to 33% of demand in February 2009,...

IDC predicts worldwide handset shipments to fall over 8% in 2009

Mar 16, 11:07

The worldwide handset market felt the full effects of the economic crisis in the fourth quarter of 2008 as shipments fell 11.6% on year, marking the first time the holiday quarter...

Worldwide smartphone sales reached its lowest growth rate with less than 4% increase in 4Q08, says Gartner

Mar 12, 15:19

In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7% on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global...