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IC Insights boosts 2010 chip growth forecast to 27%
single year, eclipsing the previous high-water markof $234 billion, set
in 2007, according to IC Insights.
IC Insights had previously predicted that chip revenue would increase 15 percent in 2010.
Sales of semiconductors declined about 9 percent in 2009, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
The projected 2010 growth is being driven largely by DRAM memory.
Thanks to strong increases in average selling prices, IC Insights
projects that DRAM revenue will soar 74 percent this year, following a
disastrous 2009, the firm said.
Last week, market research firm iSuppli Corp. forecast that chip
revenue would increase 21.5 percent in 2010. The firm argued that the
IC recovery will be modest " when viewed from a longer-term
perspective," noting that even greater than 20 percent growth will
leave the industry only a few percentage points above where it stood in
2007 and 2008.
- Cypress offers CapSense and TrueTouch controllers in WLCSPs
- Philips unveils first mains-powered white-light OLED module
- Fingerprint chip rivals merge
- ADD Semiconductor is first to achieve PRIME certification for powerline communications in smart metering
- New PSoC Creator Design Environment release adds programmable peripherals for PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures
- Global Qi standard launch aims to power up wireless charging
- Wireless sensor network IC shipments bounce back in 2010
- Rice's silicon memristor aims to beat HP
- LED lighting design tool provides faster development
- Worldwide semiconductor revenue beats Gartner's expectations, growing 31.5 percent in 2010
- Intel to purchase Infineon's Wireless Solutions Business in USD 1.4 billion cash transaction
- A4 chip drives AppleTV, iPod Touch
- AMD unveils two new x86 cores
- Apple iPad upgrade likely to get STMicro gyro
- Marvell and Harman bring advanced Wi-Fi to the automotive industry
- Decision time looms for hard drive makers
- Toshiba spins 2.5 Tbit hard disk
- IBM claims fastest MPU
- Russian chipmaker calls for import ban
- Marvell buys into broadband-over-power
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