Woodstock Wire: Electronics Outlook

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has revised downward its first-quarter 2019 guidance following the completion of...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - Unusually high sales growth of almost 10% in the last quarter of 2018 meant the German electronic component distribution market...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues fell 13.1% sequentially to NT$78.09 billion...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Pure-play foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will soon kick off commercial production for Qualcomm's Snapdragon...

Media -- Evertiq - DMASS reports 14.2% growth in semiconductor distribution for Q4/CY18. Smaller countries and Eastern Europe benefit over-proportionally....

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan led all regions/countries in wafer capacity with 21.8% share, a slight increase from 21.3% in 2017, according to IC Insights....

Media -- DIGITIMES - GlobalWafers has disclosed revenues for January 2019 hit the third highest monthly levels in the company's history, while Formosa...

Think -- Big Think - IBM's 2019 5 in 5 predicts major changes on the horizon. Food chain technology, from farmers' financing to desktop pathogen sensors,...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - 4Q'18 Global Supply Chain Performance; Global Semiconductor Sales increased 13.7% y/y in 2018; Apple Suppliers in Japan chop...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - After a very positive, double-digit 2017, the European semiconductor distribution industry posted solid growth throughout 2018....

Media -- DIGITIMES - The global semiconductor industry posted sales of US$468.8 billion in 2018, the industry's highest-ever annual total and an increase...

Media -- CNBC - Tech - The outlook for the semiconductor sector may be turning positive, as analysts expect chip demand to hit bottom before picking up...

Think -- IDC - The latest IDC Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide reveals that the Asia/Pacific...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Industry sales increased almost 5% YOY in 4Q18 to $16.5 billion. For 2018, sales were $66.7 billion, up +11.0% over prior year.

MarketWatch.com - Top Stories -- The year ahead could be a difficult one for makers of DRAM, according to Morgan Stanley.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai) will see its revenues continue growing in 2019, but the exact figures can hardly be estimated due to...

Media -- PowerPulse.net - The power semiconductor market continues to experience steady growth due to the limitation...

Media -- Electronics Maker - However, China's indigenous IC production is still likely to fall far short of government targets.

China has been the largest...

Media -- Evertiq - The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), says that the global semiconductor industry posted sales of USD 468.8 billion in 2018,...

Media -- CNBC - Business - Semiconductors fell across the board Friday after Goldman Sachs warned clients that the industry's 2019 rally looks excessive.

Enterprise -- VMblog - Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019.

Enterprise -- The ChannelPro Network - According to channel chief Gavriella Schuster during a "state of the channel" presentation today, Microsoft's...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - The U.S. trade deficit fell 11.5 percent in November to the lowest level since June.Contributed Author: Paul Weisman,...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - 4Q'18 Global Electronic Supply Chain Growth; January PMI Leading Indicators; Worldwide Smartphone shipments dropped 4.9% y/y...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - More than half lack a strategy to combat the eCommerce giant, Unilog finds.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Both the European Union and the Canadian province of Ontario have recently promulgated Circular Economy regulations targeting,...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - Comments from the committee reflect continued expanding business strength supported by strong demand and output.

Enterprise -- CRN - Here are five predictions from Gartner you need to know.

SupplyChain -- EBN Online - Customers want transparency of supply chain through social media.

EE -- Enterprise IoT Insights - Germany, France and the U.K. will be the markets with the highest level of IoT adoption in 2019



Revenues for the...

Media -- Electronics Maker - Top 10 OEMs Increased Semiconductor Buying Power; Huawei Moved Into Top 3

Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top...

Media -- New Electronics - Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments in 2018 increased 8 percent year-over-year to reach a record high, according to the...

Business Wire -- Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.76 trillion in 2019, an increase of 3.2 percent from 2018, according to the latest forecast by...

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Gartner Inc. has issued another forecast on global IT spending, saying that enterprises will splash out a combined $3.8 trillion...

Enterprise -- ITBusiness.ca - From the Jetsons to R2-D2 to the more recent Black Mirror, science fiction has consistently helped us imagine a future where...

Electronics -- SEMI - Revenues Improve but Remain Below 2007 Peak



Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments in 2018 increased...

Tech -- TechCrunch - While it appears that overall economic activity could be slowing down, one area that continues to soar is the cloud business. Just...

Tech -- TechCrunch - The federal government yesterday published the final rule for changes to the H1-B visa program, which is one of the primary conduits...

Distribution -- EPS News - The nation's manufacturing sector regained some lost ground in January as demand, production and consumption all increased from December,...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - In this MarketeEYE article, Dennis Zogbi of Paumanok Industrial Market Research creates a timeline of discontinuation announcements...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Total reported sales for all switch categories in North America for Q2 of 2018 were 6% above the previous quarter and 2% better...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - All other parameters being equal, wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors are preferred over narrow band semiconductors (such as silicon)...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - 4Q'18 Electronic Supply Chain Growth Slows; EMS & ODM Growth also Peaking; January "Flash" Purchasing Managers Indices; Japan...

ECIA -- This marks the first in a series of regular monthly columns by Bill Bradford, ECIA's president and CEO. In January,...

Distribution -- EPS News - IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries(r) announced today the December 2018 findings from its North American Printed...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - IT spending is moving from saturated segments such as mobile phones, PCs and on-premises data center infrastructure to cloud...

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - Gartner says that spending is shifting from mobile devices to the cloud and data centers.

Media -- Evertiq - Annual semiconductor unit shipments, including integrated circuits and optoelectronics, sensors, and discrete (O-S-D) devices grew...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Several major China- and Taiwan-based contract chipmakers including United Microelectronics (UMC), Semiconductor Manufacturing International...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Server DRAM contract prices are expected to fall by more than 20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2019, according to DRAMeXchange,...