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Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx, reviews RFID progress in 2007, the year the RFID market grew in value to $5 billion, mainly powered by a peak in deliveries of the Chinese national ID card

It is going to be a good year for semiconductor demand, according to Renesas, but the prospects for prices remain cloudy

STMicroelectronics claims to be Europe’s leading supplier of MPEG-2 and H.264 decoder chips for use in integrated digital TV sets (iDTVs)

The shortage of electronics engineers could get worse as the number of students opting to take electronics and electrical engineering degrees has fallen by a shocking 45 per cent over the last five years, according to a report last week

The semiconductor market should recover to show a respectable 12% level of growth next year, according to market watcher Future Horizons

Nintendo leapfrogged over Sony to head the game console software market on the strength of new titles for both its Wii and DS systems, according to iSuppli

Consumers will spend more than $100bn on flat panel TVs during 2007, according to a report from market watcher Strategy Analytics

The market for add-on car navigation systems is expected to double between now and 2012, says Sharp Microelectronics, while the cost of the bill of materials (BOM) has been halving every couple of years.

India's 2007 annual growth in the semiconductor market is nearly triple the rate at which the global semiconductor market is expanding

For the first time, China has become the world's largest market for RFID by value