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Shakeups Rock 1H08 Top 20 Semiconductor Supplier Ranking

IC InsightsÃ' recent research for its Strategic Reviews Online IC company database uncovered a big shakeup in the 1H08 top 20 semiconductor supplier ranking. There are eight U.S. companies in the top 20 (including three fabless semiconductor suppliers), six Japanese, three European, two South Korean, and one Taiwanese company (IC foundry supplier TSMC) in the ranking. As shown, it required at least $2.1 billion in 1H08 sales to make the top 20 ranking. Although the top four ranked companies remained the same, there were a number of "movers and shakers" up and down the remainder of the 1H08 ranking as compared to their full-year 2007 positions.  more

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Qualcomm, Broadcom Leap Up Top-20 Semiconductor Rankings

IC InsightsÃ' May update to The McClean Report describes the big shakeup in the 1Q08 top 20 semiconductor supplier ranking. There are eight U.S. companies in the top 20 (including three fabless semiconductor suppliers), six Japanese, three European, two South Korean, and one Taiwanese company (IC foundry supplier TSMC) in the ranking.  more

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SD Card group sets up mobile taskforce

At the conclusion of its 2004 General Meeting in Kauai, Hawaii this week, the SD Card Association (SDA) announced that it finalized specifications enabling mobile e-commerce and the downloading of map information to SD Memory Cards, and has formed a new Mobile Phone Task Force. These moves are part of ongoing association efforts to aggressively expand the capabilities of SD Memory Cards in mobile devices, and build on the format's growing dominance in digital camera, camcorder, PDA, printers, and other product applications. The SD Memory Card held the top position in market share for the months of October and November 2003, capturing 41.8 percent of the U.S. semi-conductor memory market in November. more

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Cell phones get half a Gigabyte of memory

ATP Electronics says that it is the first company to launch a 512MB MultiMediaCard: a postage stamp-sized flash memory card that is increasingly being used in cell phones to provide additional memory. The 512MB MultiMediacard quadruples current capacities, allowing consumers to store up to 15 hours of digitally compressed music, more than 160 minutes of MPEG-4 compressed video or more than 500 high-resolution digital images. more

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