Driven by strong 3G W-CDMA capacity projects in Europe and Middle East as well as unabated LTE activity in China, the global macrocell mobile infrastructure market was up 2 percent in the second quarter of 2015 from the prior quarter, and up 2 percent year-over-year.
Analyst firm Gartner said that 3D printing (3DP) technology has progressed rapidly in recent years, and that medical applications are leading to some of the most significant deployments of 3DP technology.
The overall trajectory of the tablet market has not changed significantly over the past year and a half, but the 2-in-1 segment, also referred to as detachables, is starting to gain traction.
According to a new mobile phone forecast from research firm IDC, smartphone shipments are expected to grow 10.4% in 2015 to 1.44 billion units. This is lower than IDC's previous smartphone forecast of 11.3% year-over-year growth in 2015.
According to research firm IDC, vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 6.1% year-over-year to $13.5 billion in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15), the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth.
Analyst firm Gartner said worldwide smartphone sales recorded the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015. Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 330 million units, an increase of 13.5 percent over the same period in 2014.
Analyst firm IDC is predicting worldwide mobile payments will account for $1 trillion in value in 2017, up 124% from the less than $500 billion expected in 2015.
