Initiatives & Trends

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It has taken more than a decade of intense technical and market developments for mobile Internet to take off as a mass phenomenon. And it has arrived with great intensity: an avalanche of mobile content and applications is now overrunning us.

Databeans, one of the market research organizations that follow the semiconductor industry, recently published its updated worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast for 2011.

Broken down into categories, it projects market growth for discrete, analog, logic, memory, microcontroller units (MCUs), microprocessor units MPUs, opto, sensors, and the smallest sector in the list—digital signal processors (DSPs).

For most people, three dimensional (3-D) is just another example of “movie magic.” Yet for the researchers developing and refining the 3-D technologies behind today’s big-screen blockbusters, as well as for applications in a variety of other fields, the work is very real and decidedly non-magical.