Semiconductor sales set for 7% increase

Worldwide semiconductor revenue is on pace to reach $338-billion in 2014 – a 7,2% increase from 2013, and up from the previous quarter’s forecast of 6,7% growth, according to Gartner. “Semiconductor revenue set an all-time record in the third quarter...

Growth in global PC monitor sales

Worldwide PC monitor shipments totalled 32,5-million units in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), a year-over-year decline of -2,9%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker. IDC expects worldwide shipments to...

Modest decline for global HPC sales

Worldwide factory revenue for the high performance computing (HPC) technical server market declined modestly year-over-year by -2,6% to $2,45-billion in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), down from $2,51-billion in the same period of 2013. This is according to the...

African sales boost NFS revenue

Sales coming out of Africa now account for 25% of NFS Technology’s sales. NFS Technology is a specialist software company that supplies software for the hospitality industry, including for the conference and video conferencing markets. Nicolette Kruger, country...

Mobile sales increase as PCs decline

There is definitely an ongoing shift in IT strategy in 2014, which is expected to lead to a bigger move away from the desktop to an inexorable support for mobile technology, says Asgar Mahomed, MD of Esquire Technologies. According to a recent survey of 440 IT...