Research Reports

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

Global demand for precursor, a material used in manufacturing of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), is set to more than double from 2012 to 2016, as the market for LED lighting booms.

Despite beating Wall Street expectations in terms of shipment volumes, Apple's share in the worldwide smartphone operating system market posted a year-over-year decline during the second quarter of 2013.