Product Design & Supply Chain
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7/31/12 12:18 pm EDT
From “Shrek” in 2001 to “Cars 2” in 2011, computer-generated (CG) animated films have enjoyed booming popularity over the last decade, pushing total U.S. box office from animated feature films to nearly double over the past decade, according to an IHS Screen Digest U.S. Video Intelligence Report from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). In the American theatrical market, total box-office takings for animated films showed a notable increase of 89.5 percent from 2001 to 2011,more...English -
7/25/12 5:52 pm EDT
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) last year padded its lead in the fast-growing industrial electronics semiconductor market, with the company’s purchase of National Semiconductor boosting its market share, according to an IHS iSuppli Industrial Electronics Market Tracker report from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).Already the market leader in 2010, TI further reinforced its dominance in 2011 as its revenue from the industrial electronics chip space grew to $2.2 billion, up 24.9more...English -
7/25/12 5:48 pm EDT
Apple Inc. is not only the world’s leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in terms of semiconductor purchasing, the company also is increasing its buying at a faster rate than other top firms, solidifying its hegemony over the chip market.Apple this year is expected to buy nearly $28 billion worth of semiconductors, up 15 percent from $24 billion in 2011, according to an IHS iSuppli OEM Semiconductor Spend Analysis report from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). Thismore...English -
7/24/12 7:24 pm EDT
Micron Technology Inc.’s recent purchase of bankrupt Japanese entity Elpida Memory Inc. is a bold move not without risk, even though Micron will emerge from the acquisition considerably larger with more than double its original manufacturing capacity for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), according to an IHS iSuppli DRAM Market Brief from information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).U.S.-based Micron’s buyout of Elpida on July 2 is expected to boost the Idaho firm’s DRAM productionmore...English -
7/20/12 2:16 pm EDT
Despite sluggish sales, conventional notebook PCs equipped with hard disk drives (HDD) as their main storage medium are unlikely to have their market share threatened in the near term by Microsoft’s new Surface tablet PC or by rival notebooks that entirely eliminate HDDs and instead employ solid state drives (SSD), according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Market Brief from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).Among all notebook PCs outfitted with either HDD or SSD as their storagemore...English -
7/20/12 2:12 pm EDT
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in the first quarter retained its dominant position in the global liquid crystal display television (LCD TV) business, holding its own despite weak market conditions, according to an IHS iSuppli Worldwide Television Q2 2012 Market Tracker from information and analysis analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).The South Korean electronics giant in the first quarter shipped 8.2 million LCD TVs globally, as presented in the figure below. While this was down 37 percent frommore...English -
6/21/12 12:58 pm EDT
With their main business in notebook PCs under pressure, original design manufacturers (ODMs) are adding new capabilities that will allow them to capitalize on the soaring sales of ultrabooks, according to the latest IHS iSuppli EMS & ODM Market Brief report at information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).Gross margins for ODMs focused on making notebook PCs have trended downward for the last four years. During the last two years alone, average margins for notebook PC ODMs havemore...English -
6/21/12 10:00 am EDT
IHS Standards Expert® 5.0 allows standards users to spend less time looking for documents and more time leveraging critical business information to add value to their organizations
IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of information and analytics, announced today the launch of IHS Standards Expert 5.0, the latest release of the industry-leading standards management platform. This new release incorporates key enhancements that enable users to spend less time looking for documents and more time leveraging critical business information to add value to their organizations."Our customers have shared with us the key challenges they face in accessing themore...English -
6/14/12 1:58 pm EDT
Hybrid hard disk drives (HDD) containing a built-in layer of NAND flash memory may offer the advantage of consolidated storage for increasingly popular ultrabook laptops, but cache solid state drives (SSD) will remain the mainstream Ultrabook storage solution, according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Market Brief report from information and analytics provider IHS.Already the leading storage form factor in ultrabooks, cache SSDs will see their shipments rise even more this year to 23.9 million unitsmore...English -
6/12/12 4:05 pm EDTENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of information and analytics, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GlobalSpec, Inc., the leading specialized vertical search, product information and digital media company serving the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments, from Warburg Pincus LLC. The $135 million acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions,more...English
