Everyone knows that Q1 is alsways worse than Q4, don’t they? Well not this year. Q1 semiconductor sales were 16% up on Q4, reports DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists).Although the Q1 figure is five per cent down on Q1 last year, the q1-on-Q4…
Qualcomm became the world’s fourth largest supplier of ICs in Q1, growing sales 28% in Q12013 compared to Q1 2012 to overtake Toshiba, reports IC Insights.Next quarter Micron should complete its takeover of Elpida which would, if it had been done this quarter, have propelledd the company into…
The industrial IC market sank 5.4% in 2012, with the eight leading suppliers of industrial ICs suffering revenue declines ranging from 0.8% to over 20% in 2012, says IHS
The top ten suppliers had collective revenue of $12.19bn representing 40.4% of the $30.15bn industrial IC…
Sales of acceleration/yaw sensors only grew 7% to $2.54bn in 2012 as prices turned down after 27% growth in 2011, but are expected to grow 12% to $2.84bn in 2013, says IC Insights.
Acceleration/yaw sensors are accelerometers and gyroscopes – primarily MEMS.
Acceleration/yaw sensor sales are…
“The trouble with the present set-up is that we just can’t help making enormous profits,” says Norman Collins Chairman of Associated Television.
So, 52 years ago, runs a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 12th 1961. “We want far more freedom, within a much more highly…
“The server world is changing,” says Lou di Nardo, CEO of Exar, “the customers are defining the system they want. There’s a focus on low-power servers which is creating a discontinuity – programmability is one feature of that.”
An example is a switching regulator sold by Exar to the…
US-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment had a March book-to-bill ratio of 1.14, meaning that $114 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The three-month average of worldwide bookings in March 2013 was $1.14 billion. The bookings figure…
The Fall of the Wintel Wall is happening faster than anyone predicted. Shares of PC-related companies slumped as IDC said PC sales fell 14% in Q1 compared to Q12012.
IDC called the magnitude of the decline “surprising and worrisome.”
“The Windows 8 launch not only didn’t provide a…