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A new report from industry analyst firm IHS warns of a rise in counterfeit components as the semiconductor market begins another accelerated growth phase. Citing a historic link between semiconductor growth cycles and reported incidents of counterfeit parts, IHS points … Continue reading →

Micron has won the right to negotiate exclusively to buy Elpida, according to DRAMeXchange, and the DRAM industry looks set to consolidate around three major suppliers. Micron and Elpida would collectively own 23% of the DRAM market about the same … Continue reading →

After recovering strongly from 2009 with growth of 22% in 2010,  the gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate market slowed sharply in 2011, rising  just 4% to nearly $360m, due to weak demand in RF circuits (handsets and WLANs)  and in optoelectronics … Continue reading →

Seagate Technology LLC recaptured the lead in hard disk drive (HDD) shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011, ousting Western Digital Corp., which suffered heavy losses in the devastating Thailand floods last year. In the final quarter of 2011,Seagate shipped … Continue reading →

TOKYO — Elpida Memory, the world’s third-largest maker of PC memory chips, filed for bankruptcy Monday with $5.6 billion in debt, crippled by competition, a faltering global economy and a shift from traditional PCs to smartphones and tablet computers. The … Continue reading →

The companies are mass producing a 128Gbit NAND flash memory chip based on a 19-nanometer process using three-bits-per-cell storage. Toshiba said Thursday it has shrunk the size of its 128Gbit NAND flash memory chips, in the race to bring more … Continue reading →

Vendors shipped 488 million smart phones in 2011, compared to 415 million client PCs. Canalys today released its full, detailed Q4 2011 country-level smart phone shipment estimates to clients, so completing the picture for the year. One notable result was … Continue reading →

IHS expects worldwide semiconductor revenue to grow 3.3% this year – a far cry from the 8% forecast by Future Horizons. IHS expects Q1 to be down with growth resuming in Q2. <a href=”http://adserver.adtech.de/?adlink|2.0|289|98976|1|277|;grp=84;loc=300;” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://adserver.adtech.de/?adserv|2.0|289|98976|1|277|;misc=37002;grp=84;” border=”0″ width=”2″ height=”2″ /></a>However … Continue reading →

IDG News Service – Nvidia lowered its revenue forecast Tuesday for the quarter ending Jan. 29, citing the impact of the hard disk drive (HDD) shortage caused by the Thailand floods on its mainstream GPU business. Competitors Intel and Advanced … Continue reading →

Propelled by government support, China’s video surveillance market is continuing to undergo rapid growth as it transitions from traditional analog and black-and-white cameras to more advanced features such as digital, intelligent and networked technology, leading to a near doubling in … Continue reading →