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DRAM Market Set For 2005 'downturn'
News It's warning for a downturn," Dan Hutcheson, chief executive of VLSI Research, wrote in a recent version of The Chip Insider , an industry newsletter. Worldwide revenue from DRAM, the memory found inside computers, will grow a whopping 56.2 percent...
[December 20, 2004, 11:10]
Venture Capitalists Turn Off The Tap On Funding
News It's no secret that the stock market downturn has forced venture capitalists to look sceptically on wild-eyed entrepreneurs. But as the downturn approaches its first anniversary, venture capitalists' scepticism is spreading to more mature...
[February 19, 2001, 14:18]
The Year Ahead: Skills Trends For 2002
News 2001 was notable for being one of the worst years for job losses in the tech sector for the last two decades, with the market affected by the devastating effects of 11 September and the economic downturn.
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
Semiconductor Industry To See Worst-ever Downturn
News The semiconductor industry is facing its worst annual downturn ever, according to new figures from IC Insights, a US market research firm. The new research underscores the dramatic nature of the downturn for the chip industry.
[June 19, 2001, 12:23]
Memory Market Edges Up
News It's been a tough several years for DRAM makers, who cut prices to the bone during the economic and PC market downturn, which began in late 2000. DRAM prices have fluctuated since the downturn. The DRAM market edged up slightly during the second...
[August 15, 2003, 16:50]
The Day Ahead: Applied Materials' Outlook Creates Tug-of-war
News Will be able to grab market share in a downturn, making it a good buy right now? It's safe to say Applied is bracing for a severe downturn. The second is that the downturn will last all year. Analysts agree that Applied Materials has "excellent...
[February 14, 2001, 13:30]
Dynamic RAM Readies For Rebound
News The news, similar to recent predictions by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), should cheer DRAM makers, who slogged through a downturn in 2001, 2002 and a good part of 2003, due to the world economic slowdown and its affects on the PC...
[December 18, 2003, 11:00]
Memory Makers Ride Out Downturn
News Prompted by last year's abrupt slowdown in the PC market, the memory downturn began last spring, after months of pricing stability. A resurgence of the PC market is likely to help popularise the new memory technologies, further boosting fortunes...
[August 8, 2001, 9:09]
Router Maker Unisphere Loses Voice
News Undaunted by the presence of larger rivals Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks in the market, Unisphere has rapidly gained market share in the niche, continuing to post impressive growth amid a sharp downturn in technology spending among both types...
[May 3, 2002, 12:19]
Spending On Streaming Video Expected To Skyrocket
News But the downturn has also affected companies catering to the same corporate market Jupiter expects to take off. Streaming media have played just as crucial a role in the high-tech downturn, deflating both expectations and investment portfolios as...
[April 12, 2001, 11:14]
Symantec: 'It's A Horrible World Out There'
News We've had the great luxury of being able to grow our company at a decent rate during the technology downturn. Since Thompson's arrival from IBM in 1999, the company has more than doubled its revenue in the teeth of an industrywide downturn.
[December 9, 2003, 14:40]
Chip Equipment Orders Rise Again
News While the jump in April's numbers likely reflect an end-of-quarter uptick in bookings, the fact that we have seen bookings improve for five consecutive months is a promising sign that the market for semiconductor equipment is beginning to recover...
[May 19, 2002, 7:31]
Bumpy Ride Seen For Chips
News The market for semiconductors is expected to start to shrink in dollar terms in the second quarter of 2002, spelling a real downturn for the industry, due to oversupply in memory chips, Gartner said. Gartner also warned that the chip industry could...
[November 14, 2000, 14:46]
Cisco Revenue Falls 25 Percent
News He reiterated his belief that despite the economic downturn, Cisco can take market share from its competitors, especially in fast-growing markets such as Internet telephony, security and wireless networking technology.
[August 8, 2001, 10:27]
ASPs Tapping Into Lucrative B2B Market
News ASPs are also being enticed by a relatively strong business-to-business market that appears to be weathering the industry downturn that is hurting many others. Hurt by the current economic downturn, several players, including Red Gorilla and...
[February 16, 2001, 12:24]
Plunge In Palm Shares Could Mean Price Cuts
News Buoyed by strong consumer demand for its products and shipments that have doubled and tripled at times, the company expected to ride out the US economic downturn in style. It is not clear how long the downturn will last, and it is not clear how...
[March 29, 2001, 7:12]
Europe Is World's Biggest Outsourcing Market
News TPI attributes the slowdown to a downturn in the US — which has seen a 53 percent reduction in the value of major contracts — of €40m or more, compared to last year. TPI blames two trends in the US for the downturn: organisations moving to smaller...
[October 25, 2007, 16:47]
Comdex 2001: Cisco Wants Wireless Everywhere
News Financial analysts expect Cisco will continue to grow, despite the many challenges in the networking equipment industry and the overall economic downturn. In his keynote address on Monday at Comdex Fall 2001 in Las Vegas, Chambers touted his vision...
[November 13, 2001, 11:55]
US Recession May Hit Indian Tech Sector Hard
News The Indian stock markets have also crashed due to the downturn, with the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index, or BSE Sensex, dipping by nearly 13 percent in just two trading sessions in January this year.
[April 10, 2008, 9:00]
Exclusive: Another UK Startup Bites The Bullet
News The downturn in the fortunes of dot-com companies has claimed its latest casualty: news and gossip startup, the-bullet.com. So-called 'content' sites are emerging as some of the worst-hit by the downturn in Internet stocks and the ebbing of dot-com...
[June 13, 2000, 11:21]
