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Since the consumer market always spends a lot during the holidays, on presents or any other supplies, it makes sense to assume that the IT industry will thrive, and a certain part of it appears to be quite ready to reap the benefits of the Santa Claus syndrome.It would appear that, despite all the claims that solid ... |
16 December 2010
10:36 GMT |
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As end-users know, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are constantly at odds with each other on the CPU market, and it seems neither managed to wrest any noteworthy part of the other's market share during the third quarter of 2010.Intel may more or less dominate the CPU market, but AMD has been holding onto its o... |
16 December 2010
06:59 GMT |
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Each time a new device emerges and proves to be growing fast as a market, talks arise regarding whether or not it can become the epicenter of convergence, and the latest candidate has now become the tablet."The definition of convergence has changed over time, with the latest version describing it as voice, video and... |
15 December 2010
09:22 GMT |
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By now, end-users are probably expecting more price declines as far as the memory market goes and, sure enough, market watchers have reported that spot prices did indeed go down during the early days of December.As end-users probably know, the semiconductor market, or at least some parts of it, haven't been doi... |
13 December 2010
08:06 GMT |
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With the NAND and DRAM market going through a bit of a rough period, market analysts looked forward and tried to figure out how the situation would progress for 2011, and it seems that growth won't be as high as some may like.Since the year is almost over, analysts are already studying the composition of the ma... |
11 December 2010
07:01 GMT |
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It appears that the month of November is returning mixed results for the many members of the IT market, and TSMC, this once, made it into the group of those with less than exceptional marketing performance.
After it got over the last of its problems with the 40nm process several months back, Taiwan Semiconductor ... |
11 December 2010
05:47 GMT |
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It appears that, despite how the PC market generally did decently over the past and current quarter, Compal Electronics had to deal with a drop in sales when it came to its mobile PC business.Since the year is nearing its end and the month of December is well underway, IT companies are evaluating their financial sit... |
10 December 2010
10:06 GMT |
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The water & stone Agency has released a report about the usage of content management systems (CMS) in 2010. While the top 3 was the same as last year, this year WordPress seriously out-performed Drupal and Joomla.Compiled after a thorough market survey answered by 5000 individuals, with around 2800 answering each que... |
10 December 2010
09:59 GMT |
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While Intel and AMD are still the two major rivals on the CPU market, things are vastly different on the overall chip market, where Samsung is actually the holder of the second place as worldwide supplier.The semiconductor market includes multiple segments, such as the CPU, the DRAM, the NAND and that of other appli... |
9 December 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Personal computers may be one of the major segments where processors sell in droves, but it appears this situation is not expected to last too long, or at least this is what market analysts from in-Stat believe.It seems that the growing variation of mobile and small form factor devices has led to a higher importance... |
9 December 2010
03:00 GMT |
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That there is always a first time seems to have just been proven true now that the liquid crystal display TV market has achieved what it has never before achieved, though one might not see recent developments as part of the encouraging variety.Usually, when talking about a feat first achieved in history, one would e... |
8 December 2010
08:49 GMT |
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It seems that, despite some setbacks and mild demand issues, the PC market managed to recover substantially after the slowdown in 2009, and Q3 was no different, especially when it came to Dell's performance in particular.
During the third quarter of 2010, worldwide shipments of personal computers amounted to... |
8 December 2010
05:39 GMT |
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It seems that the growing feature set of mobile phones has begun to have a more than positive impact on the market for accessories, especially aftermarket accessories, enough so that analysts predict high revenues for this segment in 2011.
Since 2010 is drawing to a close, it is not unexpected that market watcher... |
4 December 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Since press releases regarding financial aspects of various markets are coming out one after another, IDC figured it would pull its own weight by revealing what the situation was on the external disk storage systems market.
The total factory revenues posted were a bit under $5.2 billion, a figure which correspond... |
4 December 2010
05:08 GMT |
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It seems that, according to the most recent data gathered by iSupply, now part of IHS, consumer demand was strong enough in 2010 to allow the consumer electronics market to rebound after the difficult 2008-2009 period.As the research firm has it, the CE market in 2010 is projected to grow by 6.2% compared to 2009, f... |
3 December 2010
10:57 GMT |
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It seems that the changes that have occurred on the PC market in 2010 will have arguably adverse effects on the market share of the various types of PCs in 2011, with ASUS supposedly likely to see its netbook sales and share decrease.Many more or less unexpected things happened this year on the mobile PC market, par... |
3 December 2010
04:49 GMT |
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It seems that the not so exceptional performance of the IT market, or at least of the mobile PC market, during the fourth quarter so far has not exactly made Acer worry overmuch, as the outfit still thinks shipment volumes will increase in December.Those end-users that keep track of such developments might know that... |
2 December 2010
10:29 GMT |
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It seems that, while not exactly over, the troubles on the NAND Flash market have more or less settled down, at least to some extent, because spot prices of NAND Chips managed to stabilize.The past few weeks have been filled with reports about how the semiconductor industry is not doing very well.Both the DRAM and N... |
1 December 2010
07:09 GMT |
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It seems that while some segments of the IT market are on the wane, others are actually doing quite well, one of them being that for TFT-LCD equipment, a market set to grow substantially compared to last year.As end-users no doubt know, the economic recession was worst in 2008, or so analysts say, but it did not end... |
29 November 2010
10:57 GMT |
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It appears that the DRAM and NAND segments aren't the only markets performing less favorably than they'd like, as PC shipments are now also turning out to have been less promising than originally anticipated.Some time ago, market analyst firm Gartner predicted that PC shipments would grow by 17.9 percent t... |
29 November 2010
08:47 GMT |
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It seems that ambitions and high goals never cease on the IT market, and Acer appears to be one of the more determined parties, having supposedly decided to aim for the top in terms of PC sales, a purpose set to be met by next year's end.Those that have been keeping track of such developments might know that, f... |
29 November 2010
03:02 GMT |
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Price cuts are always a welcome news for the consumer market, especially around times when shopping is about to be turned up to eleven, and it seems that the market for LCD TVs is going through this very type of experience.According to DisplaySearch, which is a division of NPG Group, LED-backlit LCD TV prices have d... |
27 November 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Even though certain market watchers foresee that the prices of NAND chips will keep falling for months, it seems that, at least for now, prices managed to rise somewhat, thanks to the situation on the Korean market.Those keeping track of such developments will know that the market for semiconductors has not exactly ... |
26 November 2010
09:20 GMT |
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Since the third quarter of the year is long over and Q4 doesn't have long to live either, analysts are, naturally, trying to see how the different market segments will turn out, and it seems that one of the recent reports deals with the US LCD TV segment.It seems that the market for liquid crystal displays, at ... |
26 November 2010
06:33 GMT |
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While some IT market segments are falling and the course of others remains undecided, others don't seem poised to see any sort of changes, or at least that's what those dealing with it seem to expect.With all the talk about the holiday season and the period immediately afterwards, market watchers have been... |
25 November 2010
10:05 GMT |
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While Samsung, LG and Sony are proud to hold half of the worldwide LCD market, VIZIO seems to have achieved prominence as far as TV shipments are concerned, at least on the US market.Apparently, VIZIO succeeded in dominating the US TV market, outselling its closest competitor by 176,000 more TVs in north America.Thi... |
23 November 2010
06:55 GMT |
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It seems that, while AMD did seem to paint a more or less promising vision of the future during its financial analyst presentation, not all market analysts share the same opinion, one in particular being especially reserved.There are always factors that can be seen as favorable or not so favorable to a certain compa... |
19 November 2010
08:26 GMT |
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Even with all the uncertainties regarding certain regions, the market for semiconductors has still grown over the course of 2010, but it seems that the rate at which sales increase will decline somewhat over the next two years.As end-users may remember, 2008 was quite dismal for the IT market and the recovery only s... |
6 November 2010
07:43 GMT |
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Apparently, the performance of the worldwide PC market has stirred mixed feelings among analysts, as IDC found that, while an overall growth was achieved, it failed to actually meet the expectations set previously, especially in the US.Commercial purchases were the main driving force behind desktop sales, while the ... |
14 October 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Though some hypothesized that tablets would severely impact existing market segments, like they did on the smartbook front, analysts are now saying that the e-reader front, at the very least, is in no danger of dying from exposure to slates. E-readers have been selling and selling for many months now and they don�... |
16 September 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Last year, the netbook market practically boomed, showing an incredibly fast growth, and the segment has since continued rising as a fairly rapid pace. Still, the rate of growth appears to be slowing down, mostly because the market is starting to get saturated. Still, the amount of shipments is expected to rise for ... |
9 August 2010
07:06 GMT |
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For the most part, reports regarding the financial situation of individual companies and entire market segments in the second quarter were quite promising. PC shipments grew by a large margin compared to 2009, and companies even recorded all-time highs when it came to revenues and income. On the other hand, some seg... |
3 August 2010
09:24 GMT |
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With the global economy on the mend, even despite the continued troubles in Europe, the IT industry seems to have recovered somewhat after the difficult years of 2008 and 2009. Last month, it was shown that even the global semiconductor industry performed especially well, amounting to $24.7 Billion in May. Now, with... |
2 August 2010
08:30 GMT |
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Even though there were, at the start of the year, some concerns that the netbook market was getting saturated, a new batch of graphics and CPU solutions restored interest in this segment. Now, analysts are once again enforcing their previous predictions that this netbook market will keep growing at a rapid pace over... |
24 July 2010
07:04 GMT |
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NVIDIA may be just about ready to launch its new graphics cards and, depending on how they turn out, they might finally enable the company's shares to one again rise on the stock market. The past few months haven't exactly been generous to the Santa Clara GPU maker. Though its shares sold at $16.99 two mon... |
10 July 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Now that the IT industry is on a rebound, all companies hope to make the best of things and even believe they may strengthen their position if they manage to influence the direction taken by certain segments. NEC Corp., for instance, hopes to tighten its grip on the supercomputer segment, and intends to use the grow... |
10 July 2010
04:31 GMT |
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After a dismal 2008 when the IT industry was faced with serious problems, the 9% decrease in the semiconductor market during 2009 was almost seen as a relief, considering how much less optimistic the estimates made at the start of the year had been. Now, the market seems to be on a rebound, at least that's what... |
9 July 2010
03:42 GMT |
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Even though LCD TV shipments are expected to rise during the next three months, the same cannot, apparently, be said about LCD panels in general. Apparently, though some sub-segments of this market will perform well, the total shipments will not exactly reach a spectacular figure, for several reasons, some of which h... |
5 July 2010
03:55 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices may have finally taken on Intel on the laptop front, increasing the appeal of mobile PCs in the process, but this market segment looks as though it won't be the only one to show a rapid growth this year. Granted, with the world economy getting, more or less, back on its feet, though Europ... |
3 July 2010
06:08 GMT |
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Over the years, market analysts have published a great deal of reports, each aiming to provide as accurate a forecast as possible regarding a certain segment of the IT industry. These reports sometimes come true, other times, they don't. What often occurs, however, is that hardware and PC suppliers modify their ... |
18 June 2010
06:22 GMT |
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Even with the supposedly weakening demand in Europe, 2010 is already looking as though it will turn out to be significantly more favorable for the IT industry than the last two. In late 2009, with the economic crisis expected to ease, IDC had already predicted an improvement. To be more specific, IDC believed that th... |
15 June 2010
09:30 GMT |
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The economic recession seems to behave similarly to a volcanic cloud. It stays above a certain region for a time, after which it moves on to another. During 2008 and a part of 2009, the US was the hardest hit by the cloud of recession. Now, the cloud has moved on to Europe, bringing demand down to the point where NVI... |
5 June 2010
06:28 GMT |
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The IT industry can be a very ironic place, especially during times of economic turmoil. The past two years have led many companies to more or less 'extreme' measures, such as mass redundancies and mergers. Some, like Palm, were even forced to accept being bought off by bigger players. Meanwhile, the mercil... |
4 June 2010
09:11 GMT |
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While AMD and Intel definitely have taken the concept of rivalry down to the last letter, the same could, in a way, be said about Seagate and Western Digital. On the hard drive market, these two have been 'fighting' over the top position for quite some time. Seagate managed to somehow stay in the lead last ... |
13 May 2010
10:50 GMT |
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The past month has been loaded with news of how most, if not all, hardware makers and PC suppliers have seen on-year and sequential sales and revenue growth. As such, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that the industry itself has, more or less, gotten back on its feet after two dismal years (2008 and 2009). Mar... |
8 May 2010
04:42 GMT |
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The so-called economic recession, blamed for the dismal performance of the IT industry over the past two years, and especially during 2008, seems to finally be nearing an end, seeing how practically every segment of the market reported on-year and sequential increases for the March quarter. In fact, it seems that chi... |
3 May 2010
09:01 GMT |
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Recently, Infonetics Research has conducted a series of studies that have shown that sales of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) network elements as well as femtocells are expected to record a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 86 percent from 2009 to 2014. The research company has also reported that revenues generate... |
29 April 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Those up-to-date with current events most likely know that Seagate is, more or less officially, the world's top supplier of hard disk drives, as shown by the record shipments and revenues during the quarter ended on April 2. As such, if it was to speak upon the current situation of the HDD market, its words woul... |
22 April 2010
10:47 GMT |
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It seems that IT companies can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the industry has once again regained its steadily growing status. In fact, it could be said that things are progressing better than some had hoped, with the global PC market even exceeding analyst expectations during the recently ended quarter. Accor... |
15 April 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Most of the people that want or wanted netbooks now have them. This is the main reason why the netbook market has seen a significant decline in sales over the past few months, as IDC reportedly found. It seems that the once promising devices, which saw a popularity burst in 2009 because of their low prices, are no lo... |
2 April 2010
11:07 GMT |
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