Analysis

Europe 5G devices market reached $270 million in 2019 and will grow by 39.6% over 2020-2030 owing to the rising adoption of advanced 5G devices in the region. 5G Devices market drivers are growing adoption of connectivity, wearable technology. Also with the upgradation of existing supporting infrastructure will present major opportunities for new players.

Two huge purchase agreements in July and September have guaranteed that 2020 will become at least the second-largest year in history for semiconductor merger and acquisition announcements, according to data released in the September Update to IC Insights’ 2020 McClean Report. 

UK’s £4bn gaming sector is predicted to almost triple in value within the next three years to £10bn, with the current 27,000 employed by the sector expected to also triple within five years. The findings come from a new report set to be released next month by global recruitment agency Robert Walters ‘Gaming: the perfect play for growth’, which highlights how gaming is the only industry within the leisure and entertai...

COVID-19 has drastically changed the perception of hygiene and cleanliness, spurring interest in antimicrobial coatings, according to a new report from Lux Research. These coatings previously struggled to find widespread adoption due to difficulties in quantifying their impact on human health, but the pandemic has drawn attention to them as an important safety measure.

One influence of COVID-19 is its change to our lifestyle and perception on healthcare, and batteries need to change to keep up. Social distancing, limited medical resources and more attention to healthcare lead to a move from centralised hospital to remote patient monitoring. In addition, the availability of newly designed devices have expanded human body monitoring and treatment beyond just medical usage, but also on healthcare, fitness and cosm...

IC Insights recently released it August Update to the 2020 McClean Report that included the first of a two-part analysis on the global IC foundry market. IC Insights defines a pure-play foundry as a company that does not offer a significant amount of IC products of its own design, but instead focuses on producing ICs for other companies.  

Transparency Market Research observes that the competitive landscape present in the global industrial coatings market is quite fragmented. Presence of large number of players operating in the overall market has intensified the competition in the past few years. Vendors are making continuous effort to expand their geographical reach of their businesses through investments and mergers and acquisitions.

The past few weeks have seen the judiciary hand down a number of interesting legal rulings that will have an impact on the use of Intellectual Property (IP) in the global electronics industry. Much of underlying current in the ongoing trade war between the US and China is related to IP, as are the concerns surrounding the potential acquisition of ARM by Nvidia.

The global LoRaWAN market is projected to reach $5557.2 million, growing at a very high CAGR of 47.2% during 2019 to 2027. LoRaWAN, mainly designed for wide range and low power communications to cater to smart city applications that benefit from wireless battery-operated things and secure bi-directional communication, mobility, and localisation service.

Total microprocessor sales are forecast to grow 1.4% in 2020 to nearly $79.3bn, following a 2.4% decline in 2019, which was the first revenue drop in the worldwide MPU market in ten years, according to data released in IC Insights’ Mid-Year Update to the 2020 McClean Report.