Research Reports

The worldwide smart connected device market, comprised of PCs, tablets, and smartphones, is forecast to grow 27.8% year-over-year in 2013, while the PC outlook has been lowered by 10% in 2013.

In another troubling sign for the notebook market, eight of the nine leading mobile PC brands reduced their LCD panel purchases in July.

Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to fall by -9.7% in 2013, further deepening what is already the longest market contraction on record.

Following Samsung?s introduction of the first flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) products this year, demand for these elastic displays is expected to grow by more than a factor of four next year, with sales reaching nearly $100 million in 2014.

This was the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline, as server market demand continued to soften in most geographic regions.

The enterprise segment continued to grow at a very healthy rate and increased 14.8% over the same period last year.

A glut of large-sized liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels used in the television and information technology (IT) sectors arose at the end of the first half this year as production consistently outpaced shipments.

IDC has defined a new competitive security market segment dubbed Specialized Threat Analysis and Protection (STAP).

The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market grew 10.7% year-over-year with 16.8 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13).

Smartphones accounted for 51.8% of mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013, resulting in smartphone sales surpassing feature phone sales for the first time