OYSTER BAY, NY – Total shipments of mobile broadband modems used in non-smartphone mobile computers, tablets and CE devices are expected to drop 8% year-over-year to 50 million units for full-year 2015, says ABI Research.

TAIPEI – With the smartphone market affected by the returning seasonal influence in the first half of 2016, mobile DRAM is forecast to experience quarterly price declines of 6 to 8% as a result of falling demand and increasing supply, says DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce.

McCLEAN, VA – September US manufacturing technology orders totaled $321.77 million, down 49.6% year-over-year and up 10.9% sequentially, according to AMT-The Association for Manufacturing Technology.

WASHINGTON – Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $85.2 billion during the third quarter of 2015, down 2.8% year-over-year and up 1.5% sequentially, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.