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MediaTek, SK Hynix, AMD, and Micron Sales Surge in 1Q14!
Later this month, IC Insights’ May Update to The 2014 McClean Report will show a ranking of the 1Q14 top 25 semiconductor suppliers. A preview of the top 20 companies is presented in Figure 1. The top 20 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O S D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 1Q14 includes nine suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Taiwan, three in Europe, two in South Korea, two in Japan, and one in Singa...
Signals Research Group’s New LTE Chipset Benchmark Study Focuses on CAT 4 Data Throughput
Spirent Communications has collaborated with Signals Research Group (SRG) to benchmark data throughput performance of six LTE Category 4 (Cat 4) capable chipsets from Ericsson, HiSilicon, Intel, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Samsung. The study included a mix of commercial and pre-commercial chipsets and is a part of an overall LTE chipset performance analysis series which will include LTE TDD and Carrier Aggregation in future reports.
Taiwanese and Chinese Companies Represented Five of the Eight Fastest Growing Top-25 Fabless IC Suppliers in 2013
IC Insights’ April Update to The 2014 McClean Report shows a ranking of the 2013 top 50 fabless IC suppliers (as well as the leading foundry, MPU, DRAM, flash, DSP, MCU, standard cell, analog, and PLD suppliers). A preview of this ranking showing the top 25 fabless companies is listed in Figure 1. The top-25 worldwide fabless IC sales leaders for 2013 included 14 suppliers headquartered in the U.S., five in Taiwan, two in China, two in Euro...
Turning Intel Inside Out—Big Changes Reshape MPU Giant
After missing major market opportunities in fast-growing smartphones and tablet computers, Intel continues to shake itself up in ways that would have been unthinkable several years ago, according to information in IC Insights’ newly released 140-page Update to the 2014 IC Market Drivers Report.
Wireless technology is changing the world
Mobile communications have already had a major impact on our lives, but we have reached a point where wireless technology can help to address some of the major global economic, environmental and societal challenges. This is the view of Stuart Orr, Managing Director, Communications Industry,Accenture, who will be presenting his vision of ‘Changing the World with Wireless Technology’, at the 6th Cambridge Wireless (CW) Future of Wireles...
Report forecasts success for 12,000 developers in wearables
AnIDTechEx report, "Wearable Technology 2014-2024: Technologies, Markets, Forecasts", has found that the fragmented industry of wearable electronics will have noclear leaders in what will be a $70 billion plus business in 2024 with 12,000 developers and manufacturers.
Ranking of the 2013 top-10 microprocessor suppliers
The 2014 McClean Report, from IC Insights, shows a ranking of the 2013 top-10 microprocessor suppliers (as well as the leading foundry, DRAM, flash, DSP, MCU, standard cell, analog, and PLD suppliers). A subset of this ranking listing the top 5 MPU suppliers is depicted in Figure 1. The $58.6bn (USD) microprocessor market was the largest single semiconductor product category in 2013, accounting for 22% of total IC sales.
Software upgrade builds on open source LLVM technology
The latest version of ARM Compiler, thereference code generation toolchain for the ARM architecture, has been announced by ARM.ARM Compiler 6 adopts the Clang and LLVM open source compiler framework, channeling contributions from the whole ARM Partnership to improve code quality, performance and power efficiency of software on ARM processors.
Top 10 semiconductor companies ranked by R&D spending
IC Insights has released their 2013 ranking of semiconductor companies by R&D spending. Intel continued to top the list, accounting for 37% of the top-10 spending and 19% of total worldwide semiconductor R&D expenditures. Intel’s R&D spending was more than triple that of second-place Qualcomm.
Anritsu, Qualcomm demo Category 6 LTE test breakthrough
Anritsu has worked with Qualcomm Technologies to successfully demonstrate peak throughput for a Category 6 LTE device and network simulator using 20+20 MHz Carrier Aggregation (CA). The two companies have jointly performed tests with a device based on the new Qualcomm Gobi 9x35 modem, the world’s first LTE Advanced World Mode Category 6 chipset solution