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November 20, 2006 05:07 AM Pacific Time

Gartner Announces Enhancements to Its Semiconductor Research Offerings

New Products Focused on System-on-Chip, Memory and Memory Silicon Demand

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gartner, Inc. announces three new offerings, which extend its comprehensive worldwide semiconductor research portfolio. These offerings are designed to assist the semiconductor industry, its customers and investors to develop and manage successful business strategies.

The latest semiconductor research offerings include System-on-Chip (SoC) Worldwide, Memory Worldwide and Memory Silicon Demand Forecast Worldwide.

“While the chip market may appear to have entered a phase of steady, relatively modest growth, Moore’s Law continues apace. Pressure on chip companies to make the right technology and market decisions is considerable, as on it rests the future of the multi-trillion dollar electronics industry,” said Jim Eastlake, managing vice president for Gartner’s worldwide semiconductor research group. “With the launch of these important new research offerings, Gartner continues to demonstrate its total commitment to support the semiconductor and electronics industries. With more that 50 semiconductor analysts worldwide, we cover every aspect of semiconductors including: design, manufacturing, device markets and applications.”

“These Gartner Dataquest offerings demonstrate our commitment to be our client’s indispensable business partner — to deliver insight and advice that will enable them to exceed their business potential today and tomorrow,” said Ken Davis, senior vice president of Gartner’s High Tech & Telecom Programs.

SoC is the key technology driving smaller, faster, cheaper electronic systems, and is highly valued by users of semiconductors as they strive to add value to their products. The Gartner Dataquest System-on-Chip Worldwide service examines the entire SoC food chain including: chip design, intellectual property (IP), packaging, silicon foundry and device trends by key end-application market. The service includes analysis of ASIC/ASSP/FPGA vendor strategies, market share statistics and detailed five-year forecasts.

The Gartner Dataquest Memory Worldwide service provides the most comprehensive and high quality coverage of the global semiconductor memory market. This program provides all-in-one memory research: The big picture view supported by granular, quarterly analysis that tracks the pulse of today’s market. The segment includes market statistics on NAND and NOR Flash, DRAM, SRAM, EPROM, EEPROM, ROM Flash Cards, USB Drives, emerging memory types and specialty memory. It provides the detailed competitive, pricing and technical analysis needed to gain insight into market cycles, technology trends, emerging technologies, applications and market opportunities that influence company investment decisions.

The Gartner Dataquest Memory Silicon Demand Forecast Worldwide service is the only product in the industry that provides the level of silicon demand information required to enable effective planning for the manufacture of both DRAM and Flash NAND chips. This statistical model forecasts the units of DRAM and NAND Flash memory chips consumed by density, in more than 100 electronics applications. It then converts memory units into millions-of-square-inches (MSI) of silicon. The model makes assumptions for process-node, die size, wafer size and yield in the conversion of chip-type units into silicon area. Thus, for the first time, the industry will be able to analyze the impact on silicon consumption of a significant ramp up or down in the production of devices such as cellular handsets or PCs. This program delivers the detailed data and analysis that illuminates the entire silicon supply chain for manufacturing high-volume memory chips, from electronic equipment production through to wafer consumption and silicon demand.

For more information on these products contact Alexandra Whitehead at alexandra.whitehead@gartner.com.

All of these services provide clients with direct access to experienced Gartner analysts who provide insights and advice on market dynamics, industry events and competitive issues. All reports, market statistics and forecast documents are electronically delivered via www.gartner.com. Additional information on Gartner’s semiconductor research is available at http://www.gartner.com/it/products/research/markets/ markets.jsp#semiconductors. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

Gartner analyst will provide additional analysis during the one-day briefing “Semiconductor Market Outlook: The Impact of Consumerization” which is being held December 8 in San Jose, California. Gartner analysts will examine the latest semiconductor forecast, the new features that will drive growth in consumer electronics, the outlook for NAND flash, challenges and advances in the SoC market, as well as the demand in the semiconductor memory market. Additional information is available at http://www.gartner.com/2_events/local_briefings/asset_161058_176.jsp.

About Gartner

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. Gartner serves 10,000 organizations, including chief information officers and other senior IT executives in corporations and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment community. The Company consists of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 3,700 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 75 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.