• Mobile app store growth soars (06/05/11)
  IHS Screen Digest research finds robust growth for mobile application stores with the combined revenues of Apple, Google, Nokia and RIM leaping 77.7 per cent in 2011 to Rs.17,351.60 crore ($3.8 billion).
  
  
• Emerging markets drive flat-panel TV growth (05/05/11)
  Emerging markets will have the strongest flat panel TV growth over the next four years, averaging 17 per cent growth each year, according to DisplaySearch.
  
  
• TI: Market leader in 2010 analogue revenue (04/05/11)
  Databeans reports a 32 per cent increase in the worldwide analogue IC market over 2009 with TI as the worldwide market leader in analogue revenue.
  
  
• Connected TVs become a rage (03/05/11)
  A DisplaySearch report forecasts that at a 30 per cent compound annual growth rate, the connected TV category is forecast to grow to over 12.3 crore shipments in 2014.
  
  
• Analogue growth seen in communications market (03/05/11)
  Databeans indicates communications as being the largest and most important market for analogue suppliers taking over more than one-third the value of the analogue IC market.
  
  

• Apple tops handset revenues (29/04/11)
  Strategy Analytics' report reveals that Apple has overtaken Nokia to become the world's largest handset vendor, smartphone vendor and tablet vendor in revenue terms during Q1 2011.
  
  
• Industry readies for Internet TV (29/04/11)
  The television industry is at the beginning of a generational change which will eventually see the Internet television being delivered directly to TV sets in broadband-enabled households around the globe.
  
  
• 16,500 crore LED units to ship in 2011 (28/04/11)
  LED unit shipments are set to increase more than 40 per cent in 2011 and double between 2010 and 2013 with 16,500 crore shipments in 2011 fuelling niche markets for equipment.
  
  
• 2011 Wi-Fi Direct-enabled shipments touch 17.3 crore (28/04/11)
  Wi-Fi Direct is expected to have a break out year in 2011 with 17.3 crore shipments expected to be led by desktop and notebook PCs, digital TVs, and mobile phones.
  
  
• 94 crore GPS-enabled handsets to ship in 2015 (26/04/11)
  Berg Insight forecasts a 28.8 per cent compound annual growth rate in GPS-enabled handsets with shipments expected to touch 94 crore units in 2015.
  
  

• No smooth sailing for OPVs (26/04/11)
  Organic photovoltaics' non-competition with conventional solar technologies due to comparatively poor conversion efficiencies and short lifetimes will limit its market potential, says Lux Research.
  
  
• Audio visual equipment tops CE market growth (25/04/11)
  Audio visual equipment is set to top the global consumer electronics market, which is expected to reach a value of Rs.13.22 lakh crore ($289.5 billion) in 2014, according to Datamonitor.
  
  
• Global car manufacturing sees 24.1% growth by 2015 (21/04/11)
  The global car manufacturing industry is set to increase by 24.1 per cent since 2010 to reach Rs.41.28 lakh crore ($904 billion), according to a Datamonitor report.
  
  
• Portable PC chips drive 9% CAGR till 2013 (20/04/11)
  Increasing sales of laptop, notebook and netbook computers will drive 9% CAGR of semiconductors from 2011 to 2013, says RCNOS.
  
  
• PC market sluggish in Q1 (19/04/11)
  Global PC shipments in first quarter fell 1.1 per cent from a year ago, due mainly to weak demand for consumer PCs and buyers' preference for media tablets and other CE.
  
  

• 'Smart' systems drive future CPU growth (18/04/11)
  IDC says Smart systems will consume over 1,250 crore processor cores by 2015, more than double the core consumption in 2010.
  
  
• Hospitality sector gains with IPTV platform (15/04/11)
  IMS Research study shows that the worldwide hospitality market for IPTV set-top boxes will be at a CAGR of 16 per cent in 2015.
  
  
• MIPI CSI-2 sees 70% adoption by 2016 (13/04/11)
  By 2016 MIPI's CSI-2 will see 70 per cent adoption in camera interfaces and more than 22.5 crore Tablet PC image sensors will be shipped, according to In-Stat.
  
  
• Tablets, notebooks eat into desktop sales (13/04/11)
  Desktops are continuing to give way to notebooks and tablets indicated by a slowdown in desktop PC sales.
  
  
• Camera phone sales to breach 100 crore mark (12/04/11)
  Strategy Analytics forecasts that camera phones sales will breach 100 crore this year, with sales of high-tier camera phones with eight megapixels and above to see the fastest growth.
  
  

• PV inverter market slows in 2011 (11/04/11)
  IMS Research's latest report on global PV inverter market indicate revenues of Rs.7,276.94 crore ($1.6 billion) in 4Q10, 24 per cent lower than the previous quarter, but 30 per cent higher than in 4Q09.
  
  
• Android to power 45% of smartphones by 2016 (07/04/11)
  An ABI Research forecast estimates that 45 per cent of smartphones all over the world will run on Google's Android OS by 2016 with a projected compound annual growth rate of 19 per cent through 2016.
  
  
• Active antennas drive growth in mature antenna market (01/04/11)
  The global market for wireless infrastructure antennas, both fixed and active, will value almost Rs.9,096.18 crore ($2 billion) in 2016, according to ABI Research.
  
  
• UPS revenues return to pre-recession levels in 2012 (31/03/11)
  IMS Research reports that the global market for uninterruptible power supplies is recovering from the economic downturn, with revenues in Q4 2010 10.8 per cent higher than Q4 2009.
  
  
• Sensor scarcity hits global automotive production (31/03/11)
  IHS Automotive predicts a serious impact on global automotive production owing to a shortage of airflow sensors that has come under pressure following damage to Hitachi Automotive plant in Sawa, Japan.
  
  

• WLAN market tips Rs.22,740.45 crore in Q4 2010 (30/03/11)
  In-Stat's report on the WLAN market says that from Q3 2010 to Q4 2010, worldwide Ethernet port shipments grew 1.1 per cent from 9.68 crore ports to 9.8 crore ports.
  
  
• Bluetooth spec delays make way for rival technologies (28/03/11)
  Bluetooth Low Energy is expected to make its way into 46.7 crore health care and personal fitness devices by 2016, however spec delays have opened up the market for rival technologies.
  
  
• Oscilloscope growth dips (28/03/11)
  Analysts say the oscilloscope market is expected to have sluggish growth with demand dropping to unprecedented low levels owing to cautious spending by end-users and market maturity.
  
  
• Analogue cameras to touch 4.4 crore units by 2014 (28/03/11)
  Research by In-Stat on surveillance video cameras finds that Asia/Pacific will lead in worldwide security camera shipments with analogue cameras touching 4.4 crore units by 2014.
  
  
• US non-handset wireless business spending on the rise (23/03/11)
  Market researcher, In-Stat forecasts the US business spending on non-handset 3G and 4G services will exceed Rs.22,740.45 crore ($5 billion) by 2014.
  
  

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