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Market research firm IC Insights now expects optoelectronics revenues to grow 13 per cent to a record-high $16.8bn in 2006.

The worldwide electronics industry will continue to grow at twice the rate of world gross domestic product (GDP) throughout this decade, according to Decision Etudes Conseil , the French analytical group in its report World Electronic Industries 2005-2010

European semiconductor sales were four per cent up in July 2006 over July 2005, according to the European Semiconductor Industry association (ESIA) and World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS)

Second generation printed electronics has arrived and its impact on society will be immense. A major new industry is born

The semiconductor market continues to see Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) as a big business opportunity and particularly for suppliers of digital subscriber line (DSL) chipsets

Suppliers of WiMAX silicon and systems could see the market for the broadband wireless technology start to develop and even open up, says market watcher Strategy Analytics

The UK is responsible for 15 per cent of total worldwide Asic design starts, according to an investigation conducted by the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI)

Bluetooth wireless comms links will feature in a third of new vehicles in 2012, increasing from just 3 per cent in 2005, according to a report from market watcher Strategy Analytics

The number of independent chipless, fabless and IC design houses in Europe is on the rise, according to market watcher, Future Horizons

If technology teaches us one thing it is that we should not to try to predict the future. And yet a recent report by Deloitte does contain one or two interesting talking points