Mobile TV and IP STB concern

post：2014-10-31

       Taking into account rising energy costs and the real estate bubble of the other factors, some Wall Street analysts quite worried about the US economy in 2006. But technology, managing director of investment bank Jefferies Broadview's David Creamer noted that semiconductors may become a new focus.

       Creamer said that with some of the semiconductor industry consolidation or merger, initial public offering (IPO), plus some of the cross-cutting of large enterprises to actively seek new technology to make technology more successfully complete the semiconductor industry in 2006 will be a develop fairly good year. "In the past two months, the semiconductor price index climbed 20 percent," he said.

       Due to technological bubble of factors, global merger and acquisition activity in the last couple of years, a steady state. 2005, about 58 transactions closed in 2004 for 56; 2003 to 56. Although the figures remain stable, but medium-sized financial trading volume has tripled. 2005, medium-sized transactions disclosed amounted to $ 5,110 million, compared with 2004 extra $ 26 million; in 2003 compared with $ 18 million more.

       In the video and communications, Creamer said television video broadcast transmission to mobile phones, will become in 2006 the most attractive and innovative technology. Creamer is a common manager Jefferies Broadview communications and computing infrastructure, global practice sector.