Woodstock Wire: Electronics Outlook

Enterprise -- CRN - The shift toward multifunction printers, competition in the A3 and A4 markets and printer security are among the major trends in the industry.

Think -- Gartner - Global business value derived from artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to total $1.2 trillion in 2018, an increase of 70 percent...

Electronics -- SEMI - North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.42 billion in billings worldwide...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - China's integrated circuit (IC) industry grew 21 percent per year from 2013 to 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...

DigiTimes -- As IoT (Internet of Things) chips currently rely largely on 8-inch wafer fabs for fabrication, the increasing demand for such chips will keep...

Enterprise -- Storage Newsletter - The NAND flash market has witnessed a slight oversupply in 1Q18. The growth momentum remains weak in 2Q18 although the demand...

Think -- Gartner - Driven by strong growth in the memory market, worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $420.4 billion in 2017, a 21.6 percent increase...

Taipei Times --

EETimes -- The top five chipmakers accounted for 43 percent of all semiconductor sales last year, continuing a trend of market share concentration that...

DigiTimes -- The global semiconductor packaging materials market reached US$16.7 billion in 2017, according to a report by SEMI and TechSearch International....

DigiTimes -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has cut its revenue growth forecast for 2018 to 10% from the previously-estimated 10-15%, citing...

DigiTimes -- IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International, in line with growing sales of IoT (Internet of Things), AI (artificial...

DigiTimes -- Global semiconductor revenues derived from chip usage in electronic equipment and devices amounted to US$111.4 billion at the end of first-quarter...

DigiTimes -- Increasingly serious shortfalls in the supply of passive components have disrupted production at some major EMS firms in Taiwan, undermining...

Electronics Purchasing Strategies -- Rutronik Inc., a leading global broad-line stocking distributor with a comprehensive portfolio of electronic components, has opened two new offices...

SupplyChain -- EBN Online - Component shortages, which plagued the industry last year, are likely continue and even get worse.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Europe Update;

Taiwan/China Update;

Top 50 EMS Providers Sales up 11.4% to $300 billion in 2017;

Chip Demand from China Handset...

Think -- IDC - Worldwide information and communications technology (ICT) spending is expected to exceed $5.6 trillion in 2021 with growth accelerating...

DigiTimes -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to report flat sequential revenue growth for the second quarter with a possibility...

DigiTimes -- Despite escalating trade tensions between China and the US, many China exhibitors at the 2018 Global Sources Consumer Electronics in Hong Kong...

Think -- IDC - According to a custom study on the Personal Computing Device market by verticals, 2017Q4, the Asia Pacific...

Global Purchasing -- The global semiconductor industry closed with revenues of $429.1 billion last year, up 21.7 percent from $352.4 billion. But excluding the memory...

ElectronicsWeekly -- TSMC says March revenues grew 60% on February revenues and 20.8% on March 2017 revenues to reach $3.5 billion. Revenues for January through...

DigiTimes -- The world's leading semiconductor suppliers have significantly increased their combined market share over the past decade. According to IC Insights,...

DigiTimes -- The global supply of NAND flash chips remains slightly short of demand which will continue to drag down the memory prices during the second quarter...

DigiTimes -- Taiwan-based GlobalWafers, a supplier of semiconductor silicon wafers, has reported clear order visibility through 2020.

DigiTimes -- Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$349.15 billion (US$11.95 billion) for March 2018 representing...

DigiTimes -- Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, Micron Technology and SK Hynix all plan to expand their NAND flash production capacities which will boost the overall...

DigiTimes -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues for March 2018 of about NT$103.7 billion (US$3.55 billion),...

Mannerisms - ElectronicsWeekly -- The top 25 companies held more than three-quarters of the worldwide semiconductor market in 2017 as the leading semiconductor suppliers significantly...

PR Newswire: High Tech Security -- The global LED lighting market size is expected to reach USD 108.99 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc.,...

Business Wire: Hardware -- Worldwide PC shipments totaled 61.7 million units in the first quarter of 2018, a 1.4 percent decline from the first quarter of 2017, according...

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - The global market will be worth $302 billion by 2021, when just 10 companies will command almost three-quarters of the marketose...

Enterprise -- Storage Newsletter - According to a forecast from the IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, total spending on IT infrastructure...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Dell, HP still managed to post solid year-over-year growth, according to IDC and Gartner

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Bishop & Associates is forecasting another excellent year in 2018. We believe sales will grow +6.8%.

Think -- Gartner - The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21.4 percent in 2018 to total $186.4 billion, up from $153.5 billion...

Think -- IDC - Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled 60.4 million units...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - U.S. wholesale prices increased 0.3 percent in March, driven higher by the largest increase in food costs in nearly...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Slower Global Manufacturing Growth; February U.S. Electronic Supply Chain Shipments, Orders & Inventories; Worldwide Semiconductors...

Electronics Purchasing Strategies -- IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries(r) announced today the February 2018 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board...

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Gartner Inc. estimates that worldwide information technology spending will grow by a record 6.2 percent this year to $3.7 trillion....

Electronics -- SEMI - SEMI, the global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing supply chain, today...

CRN-UK -- Analyst says new cycle of IT growth is imminent, driven by increase in demand for enterprise software and continued services spending

Seeking Alpha --

EMSNow - Outsourcing Insights -- IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries(r) announced the February 2018 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB)...

EMSNow - Outsourcing Insights -- Global Device Shipments Are Forecast to Return to Growth Mobile Phone Lifetimes to Increase Through 2020 After a decline of 3 percent in 2017,...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Gartner suggests that the IT industry is going strong with a spend increase of 6.2 percent from 2017.

Think -- Gartner - Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2018, an increase of 6.2 percent from 2017, according to the latest forecast...

ElectronicsWeekly -- February's semiconductor sales were 21% up on the $30.47 billion sales of February 2017 at $36.8 billion, but 2.2% down on January's $37.6 billion,...