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FRAMINGHAM, Mass., October 12, 2004 The enterprise storage semiconductor market will pass the $1 billion mark in 2005, an 18.5% jump from 2004 when the market will rise to $857 million. Steady growth in the longer term will allow this segment to reach $1.2 billion in 2008, representing an 11% CAGR for 2003-2008, reveals a new IDC study.
"The market for semiconductors within enterprise storage equipment continues to evolve as the demands for networked storage grows," said Sean Lavey, program manager for Semiconductor Research at IDC. "New storage technologies such as serial ATA (SATA) and serial attached SCSI (SAS) coupled with the emerging IP-based iSCSI protocol will have a major impact on driving further adoption of networked storage into the SMB masses. Meanwhile, Fibre Channel (FC), which has been used heavily in large enterprise and datacenter environments, is also shifting its focus towards attracting higher volume shipments within smaller-sized businesses due to lower costs."

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Intel Motherboard * Competition from chip vendor is growing as networking and datacom chip players have made acquisitions and are allocating larger amounts of R&D spending to become bigger players in the enterprise storage market.
* Adoption of serial SATA and SAS continues as SATA finds a fit in low-end enterprise storage segments, while SAS is poised to eat away at the larger SCSI installed base.
* Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) continue to migrate to programmable logic devices (PLDs) and some merchant application specific semiconductor products (ASSPs). Higher up-front NRE charges for cell-based ASICs will likely encourage more OEMs to look to migrate their designs away from custom silicon.
* FC HBAs and switches will migrate to 4Gbps in 2005. Backward compatibility along with similar pricing to 1/2 Gbps will allow faster 4 Gbps to become the next migration in FC.

The total market for such standard solutions was estimated as being $2.7 billion in 2003 and $3.3 billion in 2004, with $3.8 billion being the predicted figure for 2005. (All information in this section is taken from IDC, 2005). All antivirus manufacturers are divided into 3 groups; industry leaders, second tier companies, and others ( on the antivirus landscape).

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Yesterday the Euro continued to rise higher against the U.S. dollar although the sentiment remained mixed that a worldwide credit difficulty will still trigger an interest rate rise in the 13 nation zone. Central banks worldwide have injected billions of dollars into money markets this month in efforts to calm nervous investors. On Wednesday, month funds valued at 40 billion EUR ($54 billion) hungry markets. But despite this hug money supply the ECB failed to bring a cure to the lending market which was still hit by many credit worries.

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