Articles Tagged with ''forecast''

IC foundry sales will keep hitting records through 2018

p> Worldwide foundry revenues for integrated circuits were expected to rise 13% in 2014 to a new record-high level of $47.9 billion, after increasing 13% in 2013 and 18% in 2012. These estimates are from the new 2015 edition of The Foundry Almanac, a jointly produced annual report by the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and market researcher IC Insights.  The seventh edition of The Foundry Almanac forecasts IC foundry sales to grow 12% to reach another record high of $53.7 billion in 2015.


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New research on telecom infrastructure services addressable market forecast

According to Technology Business Research Inc.’s latest Global Telecom Infrastructure Services (TIS) Addressable Market Forecast (AMF), covering the full year 2013, the TIS market grew 2% year-to-year to $96.9 billion in 2013, driven by LTE deployments in the U.S., but growth will slow to just above 1% going forward. Chris Antlitz, a senior analyst in TBR’s Networking and Mobility Practice, said, “The TIS market will be driven by services that enable LTE deployment in the early years of the forecast, but will decline starting in 2016. Professional services will then pick up the slack as operators shift focus to implementing new business models that monetize their broadband networks and reducing capex and opex spend by employing SDN and NFV.”


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Smartphone users worldwide will total 1.75B in 2014

eMarketer expects 4.55 billion people worldwide to use a mobile phone in 2014. Mobile adoption is slowing, but new users in the developing regions of Asia-Pacific and the Middle East and Africa will drive further increases. Between 2013 and 2017, mobile phone penetration will rise from 61.1% to 69.4% of the global population, according to a new eMarketer report, “Worldwide Mobile Phone Users: H1 2014 Forecast and Comparative Estimates.”


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