Electronic design automation revenues for Q1 2005 reached $989 mln, down from $995 mln in Q1 2004, according to the EDA Consortium EDAC. Q1 2005revenue was down nearly 8.3% from the $1.078 bln in Q4 2004.
IDC says that the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) WLAN market increased by 6.1% to $444.9 mln customer revenue during Q1 2005, compared to $419.3 mln customer revenue in Q4 2004. EMEA WLAN infrastructure experienced revenue growth of 14.7%, while WLAN client revenue declined by 10.6%. The main reason for...
Worldwide optical network hardware revenue decreased 10% to $2.3 billion between Q4 2004 and Q1 2005, a drop that was anticipated after the market surged 21% between Q3 2004 and Q4 2004, according to Infonetics Research. Typically many manufacturers are down in the first quarter of the year after showing...
Worldwide PBX/KTS revenue dropped 12% to $1.5 bln between Q4 2004 and Q1 2005, but is 2% higher than a year ago, says Infonetics Research. The number of PBX/KTS lines shipped worldwide decreased to 6.3 mln in Q1 2005, 15% lower than in Q4 2004. The market will bounce back...
The worldwide storage software market grew 14.9% YTY to $2.1 bln in Q1 2005, marking the 6th consecutive quarter of double-digit YTY growth, according to IDC. The storage replication software market also enjoyed strong results in Q1 2005< with 19.7% year-over-year growth. The file systems software market grew 25.4% year...
Q1 2005revenue for NAND flash rose to $2.05 bln, up 16% from Q4 2004, according to iSuppli. NOR flash revenue declined to $2.02 bln, down 11% from Q4 2004.
According to IDC, factory revenue in the worldwide external disk storage systems market grew 6.7% YTY to $3.8 bln in Q1 2005, marking the eighth consecutive quarter of positive overall growth. The total disk storage systems market grew at a slightly lower YTY rate of 6.0% in Q1 2005. Capacity...
Worldwide next generation voice product revenue totaled $493 mln in Q1 2005, down 8% from Q4 2004 but up 40% between Q1 2004 and Q1 2005, and is forecast to grow to $5.8 bln in 2008, according to Infonetics Research. Worldwide softswitch revenue is up 4% from Q4 2004 and...
Despite plummeting ASPs from fierce vendor competition, worldwide WLAN equipment revenue rose 20% to $767.6 mln between Q4 2004 and Q1 2005. 12.2 mln units were shipped, the highest quarterly volume to date, according to Infonetics Research. Revenue is expected to rise another 2% to $779.6 mln by Q1 2006,...
Want to test Vista SP1? Anyone can, starting next weekSP1; I hope this fixes the issues...Mary Jo:I am an optimist and I do hope that Vista RC SP1, least the final will fix Vista to make it it even more stable without breaking Apps.Over time, thus far, Microsoft has made...
Open source in its boom phaseBoom? Is that what happens when it goes up in smoke?If there is a boom in open source I can't tell. The numbers in the market haven't changed much at all. Unfortunately with some open source moving to the GPL-3 we'll never...
Since Mark Hurd took over the reigns of HP on March 29, 2005, the company has been leaning into software, mostly through acquisition. With the last 24 months, HP’s software group has made six acquisitions, totally nearly $7 billion. It's not acquisition at Oracle scale, but it's a big shift...
Adobe's Q1 financials show "developer revenue" is still very smalldeveloper revenue?One of the things that bothers me about flex is the price for flex builder. $500 is steep. One thing that MS gets right is "Developers, Developers, Developers!!!!!!". They offer Express versions for most of their developer tools like C#,...
Friday afternoon I received and email from HP's PR firm in anticipation of a Sun launch event tomorrow in San Francisco, with CEO Jonathan Schwartz; Hector Ruiz, CEO AMD; John Fowler, Sun EVP of Systems; Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Systems Designer and some customers. HP's ambush email is basically trashing...
Here are some of the highlights from the 2006 Earnings Report PDF and press release on Google's website. It looks as though Google has had a great first quarter with revenues up -- and in some cases by almost double from a year ago.Revenues - Google reported revenues of $2.25...
The NPD Group does not yet have figures on the market for iPod accessory sales alone, but during Q1-Q3 2005, total portable digital player accessory revenue reached $412 mln in the United States. It's a 370% increase from the same period in 2004, with accessory sales generating nearly 26c for...
VOIP service revenue in North America will grow 18x between 2004 and 2009, from $1.24 bln to $23.4 bln, according to Infonetics Research. More than $62 bln will be spent on VoIP services over the 5-year forecast period. VoIP subscriber growth is skyrocketing right along with revenue growth: Infonetics is...
Semiconductor assembly and test services revenue continued to increase in Q3 2005, and it is forecast to grow 12.6% to $15.2 bln for the year. Revenue will drop slightly in Q1 2006 before increasing for the rest of the year, Gartner reports.
The overall Ethernet switch market grew 9.9% in Q2 2005. Almost every vendor showed shipment gains for the quarter across all major segments. On a revenue basis, the market was up by 11.7%. Fast Ethernet FE shipments were up by 13.2%, an indication that the shift to Gigabit Ethernet GE...
Worldwide server shipments rose 11% in Q1 2005 compared to Q1 2004, to over 1,745,000 units. Revenue grew by 4% over the same period, to $12.3 bln. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun Microsystems captured almost four-fifths of the revenue, according to Gartner.
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