Merchant Embedded COTS Board Market
According to a VDC research report, the market for merchant embedded COTS computer boards in military/aerospace/defense applications will grow in North America and Europe over the next two years. The market totaled US$ 766.8 million in 2006, with North America responsible for a 75% share of this and Europe the remaining 25%. The market is [...]
2007 Silicon Wafer Shipments Grew by 8%
According to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG), worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 8% in 2007 (compared to 2006 area shipments). Revenues also grew by 21% in 2007 compared to 2006, as a result of 300mm contributing to an overall better product mix. Silicon wafer area shipments in 2007 totaled 8,661 million square [...]
IMEC Optimizes Scalable Video Decoding
IMEC's source-code for standard-compliant Scalable Video Decoding (SVC = H.264 extension) now performs 20 times faster and uses only a tenth of the memory footprint compared to the SVC standard reference code. The results were obtained by further optimizing the code through the removal of redundant code and function calls as well as through the [...]
EDA Industry Records $1,412 Million for Q3 2007
According to the EDA Consortium Market Statistics Service (MSS), the electronic design automation (EDA) industry revenue for Q3 2007 grew 7.2% to $1,412.1 million, versus $1,317.2 million in Q3 2006. The four-quarter average growth rate, which compares the most recent four quarters to the same four quarters in the prior year, was 12.3%. Companies that [...]
SEMI December 2007 Book-to-Bill Ratio
According to Semi, North American manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.23 billion in orders in December 2007 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.89. A book-to-bill of 0.89 means that $89 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
VDC MicroTCA Embedded Computing Architecture Report
VDC's research on the MicroTCA embedded computing architecture shows that investment in MicroTCA evaluation is growing in the military/aerospace/defense computing market. The research report presents the results of research conducted with potential OEM users distributed evenly across four vertical markets (telecom/datacom, military/aerospace, industrial, and medical). OEMs were asked a series of questions about their knowledge [...]
ABI Research's Mobile Linux Report
ABI Research recently published a report about Google's Android and mobile Linux. According to ABI Research, the spread of Linux into the mobile environment will face significant barriers, including vertical fragmentation due to the lack of complete stack, and horizontal fragmentation (the result of many bodies developing solutions in parallel). Both aspects have made it [...]
Consumer Navigation Devices and Systems
According to a new study from ABI Research, personal navigation device (PND) is the main force driving the consumer navigation market. PNDs offer ease of use, features, portability, and affordability. PND markets will continue to grow strongly to reach a global sales volume of more than 100 million units by 2011. Dedicated PNDs will remain [...]
Automotive Voice Control Applications
According to Strategy Analytics, the automotive voice technology market will reach 78 million units by 2013. Automotive voice control will expand to include digital music files and a wider set of new automotive Human-Machine Interface (HMI) applications, such as Nuance's LINGUATRONIC introduced at the Mercedes-Benz World conference in the UK. LINGUATRONIC is a voice control [...]
White Paper: CPIQ Initiative Phase 1
The International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) recently published their Camera Phone Image Quality (CPIQ) Initiative Phase 1 white paper. The white paper is free. The white paper, entitled "Fundamentals and review of considered test methods," contains an evaluation of existing best practices and industry standards and identifies key measures/metrics in each of several critical CPIQ [...]
ABI Research Reports on Bluetooth Chips
ABI Research forecasts that by 2011 there will be over 146 million ICs that combine host processor and Bluetooth functionality, while Bluetooth/Wi-Fi and Bluetooth/UWB combination ICs are likely to see 61 million and 59 million IC shipments in 2011 respectively.
Embedded Dynamic System Design Tools Report
According to research conducted by Venture Development Corporation (VDC), embedded software design methodologies will continue to shift toward model-based approaches in order to address the growing complexity associated with embedded systems development. VDC expects that evolving industry-specific requirements will further augment the adoption of design automation technologies, such as dynamic system design tools. VDC defines [...]
WiMAX Chipset Market 2006-2012
According to In-Stat, the emerging WiMAX chipset market will be driven primarily by embedded Mobile WiMAX in mobile PCs through 2012. WiMAX Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), external clients and dual-mode cellular/WiMAX handsets will also help drive WiMAX chipset volumes through 2012. Major players in the user terminal chipset space in 2007 were Sequans, Intel, Beceem, [...]
Near Field Communication Semiconductors
According to an ABI Research report, Near Field Communication Semiconductors, more than 419 million NFC chipsets will ship in 2012. NFC chipset shipments and revenue will continue to grow steadily over the next five years. However, NFC revenue will be offset by declining unit ASPs. By 2012, NFC chipset ASP will decline to $0.97, for [...]
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