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Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Sony and Samsung Electronics are the leading component suppliers for Palm's new Pre, providing the key semiconductor and display technologies that give the smart phone its competitive differentiation, according to dissection conducted by iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Service. more

Shakespeare's adage, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," was certainly true for the kings of the semiconductor industry in 2008, with eight out of the Top-10 suppliers suffering revenue declines for the year, according to iSuppli Corp. more

For only the fifth time in the last 25 years, the semiconductor industry will post a decline in revenue, with worldwide semiconductor revenue totaling $261.9 billion in 2008, a 4.4 percent decline from 2007, according to preliminary results by Gartner. more

For memory chip makers, 2008 will go down as a year to forget, as a major downturn in this segment caused revenue to fall for nearly all suppliers and contributed to negative results for the overall semiconductor industry, according to preliminary market-share figures from iSuppli. more

A new number-one supplier of memory chips for mobile handsets was born today with the announcement of Numonyx, but can this semiconductor spin-off find success in a business where no one has posted a profit in three years? more

Surprising weakness in the memory chip market in the fourth quarter took the wind out of the sails of the global semiconductor market, causing growth in 2007 to fall short of expectations, according to iSuppli. Global semiconductor market revenue grew by only 3.3 percent in 2007, based on the results from iSuppli's final 2007 chip market share data. more

Qualcomm, a US-based fabless semiconductor supplier, rose to the ninth position among global semiconductor suppliers in the second quarter, up from 13th in the first quarter. The seller of communications chips in the second quarter achieved revenue $1.4 billion, up 8.6 percent from $1.3 billion in the first quarter. more

It operates at a maximum clock speed of 200MHz resulting in a throughput of up to 1.6 Gbytes of data per second with a 32-bit I/O �" the fastest in the industry. The product consumes very low power, under worst case conditions, extending battery life in a wide range of portable electronic devices. more

After years of coming close to breaking into the top-10 global semiconductor rankings, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Hynix Semiconductor finally hit the big time in 2006, according to a preliminary ranking from iSuppli Corp. In the telecoms world, Qualcomm maintained its ranking while Broadcom managed to jump a couple of places.

Preliminary Ranking of the World's Top-25 Semiconductor Suppliers in 2006 (Ranking by Revenue in Millions of U.S. Dollars)

2005 Rank

2006 Rank

Toshiba: No Plans To Build US$6 Billion Singapore Chip Plant

SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Japan's Toshiba Corp. Tuesday denied a media report that it may build a nand flash chip plant in Singapore, a company spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires. more

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