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For years, electronics contract manufacturers have flocked to Chinese cities including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi and Beijing to maximize their revenues and minimize their costs. Accordingly, iSuppli Corp. projects that 52.4 percent of all contract-manufacturing revenues were generated by companies operating in ChiEMS/ODM Revenue Forecast For na, including Foxconn, FlexSoutheast Asia (2006 and 2011) tronics, Quanta and Compal. (Revenue in Millions of U.S. Dollars) However, a new hot spot has emerged in electronics manufacturing: Southeast Asia, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and—most prominently—Vietnam. The Southeast Asian contract2006 2011 manufacturing market, consisting of Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) and Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) providers, will rise to $24.9 billion by 2011, a nearly $9 billion increase from $16.2 billion in 2006, according to iSuppli. By 2011, Southeast Asia will rise to account for 7 percent of global electronics contract-manufacturing revenue, up from 6.3 percent in 2006.
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Mobile phone operators now have the ability to market a downloadable navigation application that is just as good as, if not better than personal navigation devices (PNDs), reports In-Stat. As a result, handset-based mapping and navigation applications could cause a major change in the overall navigation market, which is now dominated by relatively expensive stand-alone devices, the high-tech market research firm says. Recent research by In-Stat found the following: • Cellular operators whose service is based
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Opportunities Abound in the Structured ASIC Market
According to Semico Research, the emerging Structured ASIC segment breathed new life into an ailing overall ASIC market. Structured ASICs allow previous users who have left overall ASIC market to once again contemplate using a Structured ASIC solution for their application. Semico defines a Structured ASIC as an ASIC with: • Use of movable (re-usable) Intellectual Property (IP) • Use of internal on-chip buses • Use of “real-world” interfaces such as IEEE 1394, USB, etc. • A design of greater than 500,000 gates • Embedded memory of 1Mb or greater • An embedded CPU core with a clock speed of 100 MHz or greater • Silicon fabricated starting at 0.25 mm and moving downward • Software drivers or “APIs” are on-chip • Medium performance mixed-signal blocks are part of the solution Revenue for the Structured ASIC category grew 20% in 2006 and is projected to increase 13% in 2007 according to Semico. Unit growth of the worldwide Structured ASIC market is forecasted at a CAGR of 28.2% in the years 2007 through 2011. Semico Research Corp., Phoenix, AZ. (602) 997-0337. [www.semico.com].