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Thanks to the fast-growing use of accelerometers in mobile phones, one sector of the semiconductor industry which will show decent growth this year is the MEMS

Rapid expansion of the Chinese and Indian DTH platforms and analogue terrestrial switch-off in the US are pushing sales of FTA satellite equipment and digital-to-analogue (D/A) converter boxes

After a 7.1% sequential increase in Q2, iSuppli reckons semiconductor revenues will rise 10.4% in Q3 and 4.9% in Q4

Korea and Japan are leading in FTTH deployment, but countries which will see rapid deployment of FTTH over the next few years, and consequently decline of DSL, are the US, Finland, Holland, Sweden and Denmark, says Ovum. Also China and Malaysia have ‘ambitious’ FTTH plans

The impact the downturn in the automotive sector is having on the electronics supply chain is becoming apparent with figures from market-watcher Strategy Analytics. Global demand for automotive electronic systems expecting to fall by 15% to $118bn in 2009, said the analyst

"Q209 looks to be coming in with growth in the 4 to 5% range, versus our minus 2% January estimate. If true, this would represent a material change to our 2009 forecast, improving it from minus 28% to minus 21.3%," said the Future Horizons report.

Ovum estimates over two billion mobile broadband users by 2014

Despite the current outlook the long-term future for the electronics industry in Western Europe remains positive

Analyst, iSuppli thinks Qualcomm is likely to solidify its place in the market for mobile handset baseband chipsets

The GaAs market grew nine per cent in 2008, according to a report from Strategy Analytics, while the industry experienced further consolidation around the leading players