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“The speed of collapse in Q4 was unprecedented”, said Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons

According to a report from IMS Research, the GPS market is forecast to increase by over $200m between 2008 and 2009

Global sales of power management and driver ICs reached almost $13bn in 2008, but IMS expects this to fall by nearly $400m in 2009

Mobile phone sales are predicted to fall next year, the first market annual fall in handset shipments since the dotcom downturn in 2001

Semiconductor sales declined by 2.4% in October to $22.5bn compared to a year ago, according to figures from the Semiconductor Industry Association

According toresearch, Samsung registered 22.4% marketshare in the US during Q3 2008, enabling it to reach first position for the first time in its history

Ofcom figures indicate there are over 900,000 households with a free satellite TV service in the UK

Transistor printers dream of making RFID and display backplane drivers yet most of the potential market may well lie elsewhere in a number of large niche opportunities

Global sales of semiconductors grew by 7.6% to $22.2bn in July from the same month a year ago, according to the latest SIA Global Sales report

Blu-ray DVD markets in both the US and Europe continue to perform strongly now that the industry has a single standard to focus on