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STAMFORD, CT – The worldwide semiconductor market will rise 27% to $290 billion this year, said Gartner.

SAN JOSE – The 90-day moving average worldwide semiconductor sales in April were $23.6 billion, up 2.2% from March and 50.4% year-over-year.

LOS ALTOS, CA – US medical electronics production slowed to 4.8% growth in 2009, down from 7% the year before, a leading analyst said.

STAMFORD, CT – Global PC unit sales are expected to grow 22% this year to 376.6 million units on ramped consumer buying, says Gartner.

The research firm says revenues will rise up 12% from last year to $245.4 billion.

Home PC units are expected to rise 29.5%, while PCs in the workplace are expected to grow 13.1% this year.

As a result of aging PCs and the adoption of Windows 7, Gartner says larger businesses will refresh PCs in the second half of 2010, continuing in 2011. The Windows 7 migration is expected to last through 2012.

Netbooks are expected to rise 30% in 2010, accounting for 18.6% of mobile PCs; however, their share of the market is predicted to fall to 13.9% by 2014. Gartner says tablets could take away share from netbooks starting in 2013.

SMYRNA, GA -- Overall registration for Virtual PCB (virtual-pcb.com) jumped 30% from a year ago as more than 2,900 PCB designers, fabricators and assemblers registered for the industry's only virtual trade show and conference.

SHENZHEN – First-quarter DRAM revenue grew 6.9% sequentially to $9.3 billion, and higher demand is fueling shortage fears, says DRAMeXchange.

Market leader Samsung recorded $3 billion in revenue, up 9.1% sequentially. Samsung’s share slightly increased 0.6% to 32.3%. Hynix’s DRAM sales rose 6.8% to nearly $2 billion, followed by Elpida at $1.6 billion, down 3.7% sequentially.

Benefitting from price and a 17% sequential shipment enhancement, Micron recorded $1.3 billion in revenue, up 24% compared to the fourth quarter.

PSC’s revenue grew 8.3% to $442 million. PSC surpassed Nanya for the No.5 spot. Nanya recorded $425 million in revenue, down 14.4% sequentially.

Winbond announced first-quarter DRAM revenue of $174 million, up 4.8% sequentially, while ProMOS’s revenue grew 37.4%.

Korean vendors’ share increase 0.8% to 54.6%. Japanese vendors’ share declined 1.9% to 17.7%, and American vendors’ share increased 2% to 14.3%, given better-than-average sales growth. Taiwanese vendors’ share was down 0.9% to 13.4% as a result of Nanya’s revenue decline.