Small increase for semiconductors

The worldwide semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) market totalled $24,5-billion in 2012, a 2,1% increase from 2011, according to final results from Gartner.  “After experiencing relatively mild 1,8% growth in 2011, the SATS market remained in a...

Korea could shake the world

What would happen if half of all global production for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70% of the world’s tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market? The answer would be chaos, with the worldwide...

China’s Star Times takes over TopTV

TopTV creditors have voted to accept a rescue plan whereby China’s Star Communication Technology (Star Times) will take over the struggling pay-TV provider. The rescue plan was adopted just hours before the operator would have had to cease operations on Tuesday night...

Mustek wins NEC accolade

Mustek has been named as NEC’s Top Performer in Infrastructure Projects, for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.  The award was made at the NEC EMEA Partner Conference 2013 in Dubai, where NEC honoured its top-performing business partners who address the...

BYOD to become preferred strategy

As enterprise “bring your own device” (BYOD) programmes become more commonplace, 38% of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs. “BYOD strategies are...

Netbooks set to disappear by 2015

Once a white-hot PC product that sold tens of millions of units annually, netbook computers are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year. This is according to an IHS iSuppli Compute...