Market Insights Intelligence Report
Market Insights is a monthly newsletter from Converge that delivers timely and relevant market intelligence to the electronics supply chain industry. Each issue spotlights current market and pricing trends on memory, processors, integrated circuits, storage products and LCDs. Our newsletter content comes from the Converge market intelligence team – a globally positioned team of commodity managers and data analysts who have a unique, vendor-neutral view into market and pricing trends on millions of products on the open market.
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5/12/2010
Converge Market Intelligence Report - May 2010
The memory market is showing some signs of weakening, shortages and savings continue to drive the CPU market, shortages remain in ICs, rumors of a 3 TB drive affect market pricing, and the LCD market is cautiously calm before the storm.
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4/14/2010
Converge Market Intelligence Report - April 2010
The gap between DDR3 memory spot and direct pricing is narrowing, a chaotic Arrandale CPU shortage market gains momentum, long lead times drive the IC market, product development drives storage capacity and speed, and the LCD market attempts to catch its breath.
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3/17/2010
Converge Market Intelligence Report - March 2010
DDR2 memory module pricing rebounds while DDR3 is in short supply, the Intel Arrandale has arrived, shortages take hold, storage drives with the IDE interface remain in demand and LCDs experience a strong market
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2/17/2010
Converge Market Intelligence Report - February 2010
Demand for DDR3 memory is expected to strain the supply channel, CPU supply and demand balance the spot market, expanding lead times fuel IC market, the storage market pauses before anticipated race in 2010 and merger mania buzzes the LCD market.
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1/13/2010
Converge Market Intelligence Report - January 2010
2010 begins with strong demand in all memory categories, pockets of demand riddle the CPU market, shortages and extended lead times drive the IC market, storage demand remains strong, LCD shortages intensify and the new FedEx fleet is living large.
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12/16/2009
Converge Market Intelligence Report - December 2009
The DDR3 memory market remains stable but DDR2 is showing weakness, CPU production demand increases, shortages are abound for integrated circuits, widespread shortages in the 3.5" storage market continue, desktop panel supplies tighten and freight importer security filing rules tighten.
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11/11/2009
Converge Market Intelligence Report - November 2009
Memory pricing continues to increase for DDR2 and DDR3 modules, the Intel Atom market explodes, shortages of 3.5" drives continue, netbook LCD panel shortages continue and freight demand from Hong Kong faces dramatic shortages.
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8/14/2007
Converge Market Insights Newsletter - August 2007
The CPU market is experiencing a bit of a time warp. While “retro” remains in vogue, so do the 6XX and 9XX series of Intel desktop processors, which continue to be in demand and in short supply.
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