ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a new report entitled “Military Communications Market – Worldwide Forecasts & Analysis 2014-2019″. This report covers all  the major sub segments of the military communications market and provides quantitative  (market size and market growth) and qualitative (trends, analysis, and  insights) coverage for those segments. This comprehensive coverage of the military  communications market provides important inputs such as drivers, restraints, and  opportunities in this market, profiles the major players in this market, maps  the competitive landscape, and provides the overall perspective on the military  communications market in the various applications and regions.

The worldwide wearable computing market (commonly referred to as “wearables”) is finally expanding beyond early adopter status to more functional and stylish lifestyle accessories that are making their way onto the pages of GQ and Shape as well as Computerworld and Wired. According to new research “Worldwide Wearable Computing Device 2014-2018 Forecast and Analysis”, wearables took a huge step forward over the past year and shipment volumes will exceed 19 million units in 2014, more than tripling last year’s sales. From there, the global market will swell to 111.9 million units in 2018, resulting in a CAGR of 78.4%.

According to a new study, “Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Market (IEEE 802.11ad, 60 GHz, 7Gbps Wi-Fi, Wireless Gigabit Alliance, Access Points, Routers, Residential Gateways, Backhaul Equipment) – Worldwide Forecasts, Business Models, Technology Roadmap and Analysis (2014 – 2019)”,  the Wireless Gigabit WiGig market to grow from $269.9 million in 2014 to $10.53 billion in 2019.  This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 111.2% from 2014 to 2019. This report provides a comprehensive market and forecast analysis of the overall market, segmented by WiGig enabled products, and regions.

A comprehensive survey of LED Front-End equipment business, covering main trends and industry per process step, and market metrics THE NEXT INVESTMENT CYCLE HAS ALREADY STARTED Driven by the fanfare over (and overestimation of) the LCD display market, the LED Front-End equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011. The market surge was driven mostly by MOCVD reactor shipments to new Chinese entrants, who benefited from the generous subsidies of the Chinese central and local governments in a bid to stimulate domestic chip production.

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a comprehensive global report on Home Audio Equipment markets. Global market for Home Audio Equipment is projected to reach US$21 billion by 2020, driven by continued technological advancements, increasing consumer preference for high quality audio, and declining average unit prices of audio products.

Semiconductor and IC Packaging materials are mainly developed to protect the electronic components such as semiconductors and ICs from external impact and corrosion.  A few types of IC  and semiconductor packaging materials are organic substrates, bonding wires, leadframes, and encapsulation resins. These materials are manufactured with several types of packaging technologies such as SP, GA, QFN, and DFN. The semiconductor and IC packaging materials market revenue was estimated to be $21 billion in 2013.

Despite the improvement in the final months of the year output for the West European electronics industry in 2013 is estimated to have declined by 3.1% before showing modest growth of 1.1% in 2014. The outlook however, has significant downside risks. If the situation in the Crimea escalates it could delay the recovery in the European economy as well as lower the outlook globally. China’s economy has also slowed markedly in the first two months of the year, with growth in investment, retail sales and factory output all falling to multi-year lows, a surprisingly weak performance that raises the possibility…

The concentrated solar power market is set to explode despite environmental objections to the technology. The latest CSP launch, Ivanpah solar electric generating system is an engineering marvel that delivers on the full promise of solar energy. Ivanpah has 347,000 garage door-sized mirrors distributed across 173,500 heliostats. The heliostats track with the sun so that the mirrors can efficiently reflect its rays up to boilers that sit on top of the facility’s three towers. The system uses solar field integration software and a solar receiver steam generator.

IC Insights Shows Big Changes to 2013 Top 20 Semi Supplier Ranking SK Hynix, MediaTek, Micron, and Qualcomm each registered ≥30% year-over-year growth. IC Insights’ April Update to The 2014 McClean Report will show a ranking of the 2013 top 50 semiconductor suppliers. A preview of the top 20 companies is listed in Figure 1.  The top 20 worldwide semiconductor (includes ICs and O-S-Ds—optoelectronics, discretes, and sensors) sales leaders for 2013 included nine suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Japan, three in Taiwan, three in Europe, and two in South Korea, a relatively broad representation of geographic regions.

New opportunities and emerging applications continue to boost the MEMS microphone market with strong new players MEMS MICROPHONE MARKET GROWTH WILL CONTINUE TO SOAR OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS MEMS microphone market has been growing since its first appearance. The huge worldwide adoption of smartphones, each using more than one MEMS microphone, creates the wide integration and rocketing growth of the MEMS microphone market. Some smartphones are now using three microphones: one for voice capture, one or two for noise cancellation and one for voice recognition improvement. The Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable electronics applications are emerging markets for…