Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled nearly 426 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0.7% from the same period last year.
On the outside, the US and South Korean versions of Samsung?s Galaxy S4 smartphone look alike. But on the inside, there are major differences in key components ? including the apps processor, the wireless subsystem and the user interface.
Global shipments of solid state drives (SSD) in PCs are set to rise by a factor of seven by 2017, allowing them to claim more than one-third of the market for PC storage solutions by that time.
What would happen if half of all global production for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70 percent of the world?s tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market?
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-over-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time.
The gaming-optimized handheld (GOH) category, typified by Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's PlayStation Vita, has recently been overshadowed by gaming-capable smartphones and tablets and this trend is likely to continue.
Preliminary results from research firm IDC showed that the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market declined 8% sequentially and 13% year-on-year in 2013 Q1 to reach 26.4 million units.
As the use of multiple connected devices in the home continues to increase year over year, home networks provide the foundation to connect mobile devices, appliances and systems in the home.
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 76.3 million units in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), down -13.9% compared to the same quarter in 2012 and worse than the forecast decline of -7.7%.
