IBC: Alert -- JPA predicts semiconductor to be king over PC
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12 2000 9:02 AM EST
JAN 12, 2000, M2 Communications - Irvine, CA -- (www.ibchannel.com/ibcplus) -- Ibchannel.com reported today that Jon Peddie Associates (JPA), the leading market research firm covering digital media technology, today announced some of the "findings" from their latest project..
Following is a highlight of specific predictions:
-- "The PC will no longer be king, but the semiconductor will be."
-- "Semiconductor devices will be made with ever-smaller features and ever-more transistors offering more power and selling for about the same price."
-- "The year 2000 will be the last year that AIB shipments outpace integrated graphics chipset (IGC) shipments."
-- "Going forward, the biggest short-term issue facing 3D designers -- and I mean in the next year -- is memory bandwidth."
-- Appliance computers are the wave of the future.
Jon Peddie Associates (JPA) has been monitoring and reporting on the digital media technology since 1984.
JPA's analysis and market research is relied on by computer industry senior management and professionals, venture capital and financial institutions, and trade publications and press.
Some of the most notable semiconductor stocks include Sitek (OTCBB: SITK), Amkor (Nasdaq:AMKR), Photon Dynamics (Nasdaq:PHTN), PMC Sierra (Nasdaq:PMCS), Tegal (Nasdaq:TGAL), Applied Materials (Nasdaq:AMAT), Asyst Technologies (Nasdaq:ASYT), KLA Tencor (Nasdaq:KLAC), PRI Automation (Nasdaq:PRIA) and Teradyne (NYSE:TER). Motorola (NYSE:MOT), Intel (Nasdaq:INTC), Philips (NYSE:PHG), Fairchild (NYSE:FCS), Adaptec Inc (Nasdaq:ADPT), Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE:AMD), Altera Corp. (Nasdaq:ALTR), Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE:ADI), Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (Nasdaq:AMCC), Arrow Electronics Inc.
(NYSE:ARW), Asm Lithography Holding N.V. (Nasdaq:ASML), Atmel Corp. (Nasdaq:ATML), Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT), Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq:BRCM), Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT), Jabil Circuit (NYSE:JBL), Lam Research Corp. (Nasdaq:LRCX), Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: LSCC), Linear Technology Corp.
(Nasdaq:LLTC), LSI Logic Corp. (NYSE:LSI), Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (Nasdaq:MXIM), Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq:MCHP), Micron Technology Inc (NYSE:MU), National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM), Novellus Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:NVLS), Qlogic Corp.
(Nasdaq:QLGC) Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), RF Micro Devices Inc. (Nasdaq:RFMD), STMicroelectronics N.V.
(NYSE:STM), TI (NYSE:TXN), Vitesse (Nasdaq:VTSS), and Xilinx Inc (Nasdaq:XLNX).
JPA is a division of Penton Media, Inc. Penton Media, Inc. (NYSE:PME) is a leading diversified business media company that produces market-focused magazines, Web sites, trade shows, and conferences, and provides marketing and business development services. Penton serves the electronics; Internet/IT; design/engineering; food/retail; government/compliance; leisure/hospitality; management; manufacturing; mechanical systems/construction; and supply chain/aviation markets. Vision 2000 and Beyond -- An anthology of ideas about computers and graphics can be downloaded for free from the JPA website at www.jpa.com.
For additional alerts subscribe to IBC Plus by visiting www.ibchannel.com/ibcplus.
((M2 Communications Ltd disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to info@m2.com)).
|
