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The solar energy inverter market achieved a new record in 2011 with shipments exceeding 26GW for the first time, according to figures from IMS Research.

A new report from Strategy Analytics on automotive electronics trends looks at in car networks and predicts that Ethernet will see both the fastest growth and the largest volume by 2020.

So it seems LTE mobile technology the 4G battle and take most of the wireless infrastructure capital spend next year.

IMS Research predicts that by 2016 annual revenues from the smart gas meter market will reach over $1bn.

That represents a four-fold increase on the 2011 market estimate.

With CES 2012 in full swing in Las Vegas, it is worth remembering that Europe is and remains the world's largest Consumer Electronics market, predicts market researcher Gfk.

The gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC market seems to have slowed to stand-still.

GaAs power amplifiers are crucial components in mobile phones and it is a weakness in this area which has affected the market.

Chip inventories held by semiconductor suppliers declined in the third quarter of 2011, according market watcher IHS iSuppli this ended the period of inventory expansion of the previous seven quarters.

The issue now is how to interpret this?

Flat-panel TVs are selling in the US at to their lowest prices in eight months.

Despite interest in the use of PLC (OFDM) communication modules in smart electricity meters, IMS Research predicts that revenues from the sale of such meters will make up less than 4% of advanced electricity meter revenues in 2016.

Alan Jermyn, v-p European marketing at Avnet Abacus believes that true customer demand and EU legislation will dictate sales growth in the market next year, despite all that has happened in the global economy.

Semiconductor magnetic sensors will see their market expand by nearly 40% in 2012 due to their use in the automotive sector, according to a MEMS & Sensors special report on magnetic sensors from analyst IHS.

"While the average motorist isn't aware of this, each time he drives a car, he can make use of as many as 100 small motors, performing tasks ranging from enabling the power steering, to actuating the fans in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system," said Richard Dixon, senior analyst for MEMS & sensors at IHS.

The semiconductor market continues to feel the effects of the economic slowdown. New figures from IHS iSuppli suggest that sales of power management ICs will grow more slowly than expected.

A sharp slowdown in spending due to continuing global economic uncertainty will cause revenue growth in the consumer electronics market to fall short of growth expectations by more than 75% this year, according to analyst IHS iSuppli.

The European heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industry is undergoing unprecedented change, says analyst Frost & Sullivan.

Demand is beginning to fall as the semiconductor industry entered 3Q11 with moderately high levels of inventory, according to Gartner.

The European chip market is still on course for a growth year. But the wind is changing.

Satellite set-top box (STB) market may be about to see a turn around from a few years of slow to negative growth.

Component distributors in the UK are seeing a sharp decline in new bookings.

Billings are slowing to, according to the latest figures from the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN).

Business activity for London firms fell in the last quarter, according to the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry's latest Quarterly Economic Survey.

According to the survey, sales and orders fell significantly for London's firms in Q3, particularly in export markets.

The growing market for NFC (near-field communications) for financial transactions in smartphones could see annual shipments of NFC chips rise to more than 1.2 billion by 2015, says research from In-Stat.