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Outstanding results for the first half of the year show that the semiconductor industry is in for a strong year

Semiconductor sales grew by 5.4% to $127.5bn in the first half of the year, according to the US-based Semiconductor Industry Association

A boom in the up take of wireless broadband services over the next few years could result in as many as 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers generating $784bn in service revenues by 2015

A report predicts that the global market for OLED displays will exceed $4.5bn by 2010

Most executives expect revenue growth in the next fiscal year, with 52 per cent estimating growth in excess of 10 per cent

Intel may still be primarily battling with AMD and IBM, but according to a report by In-Stat, newer competitors will pose a different challenge to Intel in the near future

Wireless will continue to be the fastest growing chip application area over the next four years, according to analysts Future Horizons

Mobile phone sales may be coming under pressure, but suppliers recorded over 300 million devices shipped during the fourth quarter

Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx, reviews RFID progress in 2007, the year the RFID market grew in value to $5 billion, mainly powered by a peak in deliveries of the Chinese national ID card

It is going to be a good year for semiconductor demand, according to Renesas, but the prospects for prices remain cloudy