FRANKFURT, GERMANY – Despite a sharp decline in incoming orders in March, order backlogs of printed circuit board manufacturers in the Germany region were well above the long-term average, says ZVEI.

HAMPSHIRE, UK – The annual sales of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the US will reach 5 million by 2026, says Juniper Research. The global market will account for 20 million new AVs sold during the same year.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – IC Insights has raised its expectations for 2018 capital spending by six percentage points to a 14% increase. If this occurs, it would be the first time semiconductor industry capital outlays exceeded $100 billion. The worldwide 2018 capital spending forecast figure is 53% higher than 2016 spending.

HAMPSHIRE, UK -- Increasing smart security adoption will drive home automation and monitoring revenues from an estimated $12 billion in 2018 to over $45 billion by 2023, a jump of over 260%, says a new study from Juniper Research.