GSMA Survey found that 4.6 billion people are connected

A recent survey by the Global System for Mobile Communications Association Intelligence (GSMA), the research arm of a U.K.-based organisation representing mobile operators worldwide, has found that 4.6 billion people are now connected to mobile internet — approximately 57 per cent of the world’s population.

Forever upwards. It seems

Sales of semiconductors in February last exceeded forecasts, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA).

Samsung will increase production

Beancounters at DRAMeXchange say that as Samsung looking to expand production capacity, the global bit growth of DRAM will reach 22.5 percent in 2018 compared with 19.5 percent this year.

Reveals cunning plans

TSMC has revised its 2017 forecasts for global foundry to seven percent growth and thinks that the overall IC market will grow 16 percent.

Profits up only 0.4 percent

Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone maker Huawei Technologies is seeing its growth slow to its lowest levels since 2011.

Desire 10 doing well

HTC which has had little good cheer for a while has seen its revenues for September grew 41.8 per cent  on month to a 15-month high of $297.12 million.

4G was big in China

MediaTek captured an impressive 4G market share especially in China. According to MediaTek's CJ Hsieh, the company’s presidentphone market will continue to grow in 2016 especially in emerging markets. 

Life gets more disappointing

Chipmaker TSMC says that chip growth this year will be nothing.

Ovum predicts 6.4 per cent growth