Research Reports

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.4 million units in the second quarter of 2015, a 9.5-percent decline from the second quarter of 2014, according to preliminary results by research firm Gartner.

According to research firm IDC, total cloud IT infrastructure spending (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) will grow by 26.4% in 2015 and will reach $33.4 billion, accounting for a third of all IT infrastructure spending, up from 28.1% in 2014.

Thailand and Myanmar stood out as the only two emerging markets to record growth. In Thailand, local mobile operators partnered with smartphone vendors as part of a rushed initiative to convert 2G network users to the more advanced 3G network before September 2015.

The total worldwide PC monitor market shipped more than 29 million units in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), a decrease of -12.0% compared to 1Q14 and 1.5% less than forecast, according to IDC.

Software is fast becoming a key driver of differentiation and innovation, according to a new report by tech giant Accenture.

Hybrid devices will account for 12 percent of total sales of mobile PCs in 2015, rising to 26 percent in 2019.

The wearables market maintained its upward trajectory in the first quarter of 2015 as new vendors, including Apple, prepared to enter the market.

The exponential advances predicted by Moore?s Law have transformed the world we live in.

New research has forecast that Wi-Fi networks will carry almost 60% of smartphone and tablet data traffic by 2019, reaching over 115,000PB (petabytes) by 2019, compared to under 30,000PB this year -- representing almost a four-fold increase.

Analyst firm ABI Research estimates that there will be nearly 1.37 billion 4G LTE subscribers worldwide by year-end 2015, up from nearly 650 million in 2014.