• LED equipment vendors face tough ride (25/05/12)
  An over-investment in LED manufacturing equipment over the past two years will have LED equipment vendors facing a tough ride this year, says Yole Développement.
  
  
• Phablet era is here (25/05/12)
  A hybrid device that is larger than a smartphone but smaller than a tablet, like the Samsung Galaxy Note, is expected to ship more than 20.8 crore units globally in 2015, says ABI Research.
  
  
• Hybrid processors up competitive edge (24/05/12)
  Hybrid applications processor growth in smartphones is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 per cent through 2016 and at a 14 per cent CAGR in tablets, according to IMS.
  
  
• Huawei leads 1.9 cr Indian set-top box market (23/05/12)
  Nearly 70 per cent of set-top boxes installed in Indian households are imported from foreign manufacturers with Huawei holding the top slot at 24 per cent market share, according to ABI Research.
  
  
• China, India, Japan to drive higher TD-LTE (22/05/12)
  Asia-Pacific LTE subscriptions are expected to overtake North America by 2014, primarily driven by adoption in China, India, Japan, and South Korea, says ABI Research.
  
  

• Pricey iPad rules Indian tablet market (21/05/12)
  According to ABI Research, Indians showed a strong penchant for high-cost tablets in 2011 with Apple leading the Indian tablet space, followed by Samsung.
  
  
• Alternative location tech drives differentiation (21/05/12)
  According to ABI, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular location technologies will each be installed on over 100 crore devices in 2017.
  
  
• Organic photovoltaics to hit Rs.3,000 cr by 2022 (21/05/12)
  IDTechEx finds that the organic photovoltaics (OPV) market is projected to hit Rs.3,298.43 crore ($630 million) by 2022 from Rs.24.08 crore ($4.6 million) it's at today.
  
  
• Factory-installed navigation sol'ns outdo PND (18/05/12)
  ABI Research forecasts that factory-installed navigation solutions will overtake PND shipments by 2015, reaching 2.5 crore units.
  
  
• Cadence working on "faster version" of Spice (17/05/12)
  Cadence said it is working on a next-generation Spice that can simulate a 29-Gigabyte memory in "a matter of hours."
  
  

• Qualcomm shines in chip sales ranking (17/05/12)
  With 56% yoy growth in semiconductor sales, Qualcomm moved from seventh to fifth position in the IC Insight ranking.
  
  
• Emerging markets drive global ultrasound market (17/05/12)
  The Asia Pacific region is forecast to be the strongest driving force of the global ultrasound market over the next five years, according to InMedica, a division of IMS Research.
  
  
• 802.15.4 IC growth strong despite Bluetooth (17/05/12)
  ABI Research finds that 85 crore IEEE 802.15.4 chipsets will ship in 2016 showing a 60 per cent growth rate despite strong competition from Bluetooth.
  
  
• Electronics market to reach Rs 20 lakh crore by 2020 (16/05/12)
  However, ASSOCHAM believes if local production continues to grow at a similar pace, the market will fall short of Rs 15 lakh crore during the same period.
  
  
• Smartphones, tablet drive mobile memory chip market (16/05/12)
  The outlook for mobile memory remains exceedingly optimistic, thanks to the ongoing passion of smartphones and tablets, said IHS.
  
  

• Fake chips on rise: IHS (14/05/12)
  Market analyst IHS warns that the number of counterfeit semiconductor parts is in the rise, and is expected to grow as the industry enters a new expansion cycle.
  
  
• CMOS sensor sales rebound (14/05/12)
  CMOS image sensor sales are expected to gain new momentum from new systems applications beyond camera phones and digicams, says IC Insights.
  
  
• Samsung led dual-processor market in 2011 (03/05/12)
  In 2011, the Korean company grabbed almost 60 per cent share in the dual-core smartphone applications processor market.
  
  
• Mobile DRAM heading towards low-profitability era (03/05/12)
  According to TrendForce, DRAM makers are eagerly expanding mobile DRAM capacity, which not only improves profitability but lowers risk from commodity DRAM production as well.
  
  
• Chip sales to grow 7% in 2012 (01/05/12)
  In 2011, top 10 vendors represented 53 per cent of total worldwide semiconductor revenues, an increase of 3 per cent over 2010, according to IDC.
  
  

• Samsung ends Nokia's 14-year reign (30/04/12)
  For the first time since 1998, Nokia has lost its number-one handset vendor crown to its South Korean rival Samsung Electronics.
  
  
• Security tools market shows strong growth (30/04/12)
  Worldwide security software market showed 7.5 per cent growth in 2011 totalling Rs.90,306.12 crore ($17.7 billion) in revenues, says Gartner.
  
  
• Dye sensitised cell PV looks bright (30/04/12)
  NanoMarkets sees solid growth prospects for dye-sensitised cell technology in spite of the decline in the overall PV industry growth.
  
  
• Polysilicon surplus to bring down prices (27/04/12)
  IHS Inc. is forecasting price erosion in polysilicon, a key raw material used in the PV industry, in the coming months, owing to persistent surplus productions.
  
  
• Printed electronics to grow 29.4% by 2016 (27/04/12)
  Printed electronics market is expected to be more than Rs.64,285.71 crore ($12.6 billion) in 2016 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.4 per cent over the next five years.
  
  

• Qualcomm set for strong gains in LTE base band (24/04/12)
  Qualcomm and Intel topped the 2011 cellular base band market with 45 per cent and 15 per cent market share respectively, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics.
  
  
• 8.7 crore 4G devices to ship in 2012 (23/04/12)
  4G devices are expected to generate 8.7 crore in unit sales in 2012, up 294 per cent y-o-y, according to ABI Research.
  
  
• 63% of Asia's carriers focus on LTE (20/04/12)
  Asia's carriers focussing on LTE have bumped up to 63% where mobile operators have either rolled out LTE, are conducting trials, or have announced LTE plans, according to ABI Research.
  
  
• Smartphones spur on device semiconductor market (20/04/12)
  Mobile handset semiconductors grew to more than Rs.1.53 lakh crore ($30 billion) in 2011 and is set to generate more than Rs.8.67 lakh crore ($170 billion) in the next five years, says ABI Research.
  
  
• Wireless connectivity ICs roll, Broadcom on top (19/04/12)
  Broadcom continues to dominate the wireless connectivity IC market that is forecast to generate close to Rs.2.04 lakh crore ($40 billion) for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, GPS, and combo ICs through 2016.
  
  

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