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- US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is good
- I meet with top representatives of the US chip industry every year for an update on their markets and the trends that shape their future. This time around, George Scalise, the head of the Semiconductor Industry Association SIA and top communications execs from Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM and others, provided...
- Tags: chip
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- Worldwide chip market to grow at 10% a year
- Semiconductor Industry Association is projecting a compound annual growth rate of nearly 10% for 2005 through 2008. Worldwide sales of microchips will reach $309 bln in 2008, an increase of 45% from the $213 bln record level of 2004.
- Tags: Semiconductors, Semiconductor Industry Association, chip
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
- $16.98 bln of semiconductors sold in January 2005
- SIA says January 2005 semiconductor sales were $16.98 billion, 22.8% ahead of the $13.83 billion in sales achieved in January 2004. Sales in Asia Pacific region leaped by more than a third compared to January 2004.
- Tags: sales
- Blog posts 2005-03-23
- $16.98 bln of semiconductors sold in January 2005
- SIA says January 2005 semiconductor sales were $16.98 billion, 22.8% ahead of the $13.83 billion in sales achieved in January 2004. Sales in Asia Pacific region leaped by more than a third compared to January 2004.
- Tags: sales
- Blog posts 2005-03-23
- Chip sales to grow 25% in 2004 and 7% in 2005
- Handelsbanken Capital Markets predicted the worldwide chip sales figures for August 2004 would be $18 bln. The total would be flat with the equivalent three-month average for July, but up 32.7% compared with the same figure in August 2003. That growth, seemingly robust, nevertheless represents a softening of market growth...
- Tags: sales, Handelsbanken Capital Markets, chip sale, chip, worldwide chip sale
- Blog posts 2004-09-29
- Semiconductor market growth: iSuppli - 31.4%, SIA - 36.2%
- In the first half of 2004, the semiconductor market grew by 31.4% compared with the first half of 2003, according to iSuppli. In contrast, data from the Semiconductor Industry Association SIA, reported here showed that chip sales in the first half of 2004 were up 36.2% on the $74.99 bln...
- Tags: semiconductor, iSuppli Corp., Semiconductor Industry Association
- Blog posts 2004-09-10
- SIA: Semiconductor growth almost best since 1990
- The Semiconductor Industry Association SIA announced Monday that sales of semiconductor chips reached $13.4 billion in August, up from $12.9 billion the previous month. This is the sixth consecutive monthly increase, the SIA said. Year-over-year revenue increased 12.5 percent from $11.9 billion recorded in the same period a year earlier....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Semiconductor Industry Association, chip, sales, semiconductor
- Blog posts 2003-09-29
- VMware Virtual Infrastructure Keeps Production Line Going at Subaru of Indiana Automotive
- Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. SIA, is an automotive manufacturing company that builds Subaru models for the global market. In the summer of 2003, SIA began an initiative to maximize efficiency in its data center. Growing in tandem with increasing car production, the datacenter was becoming overcrowded with servers. The...
- Tags: Subaru, Semiconductor Industry Association, Server, VMware Inc., Data Centers, Semiconductors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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- RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working
- RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics
- News items 2008-05-16
- Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?
- For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...
- Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Web 2.0 and the end of advertising
- The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Frenemies
- Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize themselves to hinder, help, block or share with one another. A common term in Hollywood is ‘Frenemies'...
- Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Rivalry, Silo, Groupware, Productivity, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments
- As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards
- The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...
- Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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