ENGLEWOOD, CO – With emerging virtual reality games, smartwatches, smart TVs and other consumer electronics and IT applications entering the market, shipments of gesture sensing control user interfaces are poised to grow 10% year-over-year, to reach 1.8 billion units in 2015, says IHS.

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 337.2 million units worldwide in the second quarter, up 11.6% year-over-year, says International Data Corp.

SAN JOSE — The 90-day moving average orders at North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers was $1.51 billion worldwide in June, up 3.5% from a year ago.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Revenues associated with network communications, sensing, and control functions in subsystems and objects attached to the Internet of Things (IoT) are forecast to grow 29% in 2015 to $62.4 billion. The jump follows a 21% gain in 2014, adds IC Insights, which released the figures.