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According to the market research report, the global market for nano-enabled batteries is estimated to have reached $169 million in 2008. With an AAGR (average annual growth rate) of 46.3%, this market is expected to reach $1.13 billion by 2013.

It appears that the numerous opportunities for energy harvesting devices must be analyzed carefully, taking into account all aspects of the final application from power consumption profiles to lifetime and size constraints.

With production plants on extended shutdown and unsold vehicles waiting for buyers, there can be no doubt that 2009 will be one of the most challenging years ever for automotive semiconductors.

After reaching a revenue low point in 1Q09, the DRAM market is forecast to show outstanding quarterly growth throughout the balance of the year, according to a market research report available at Electronics.ca Publications.

The European and global electronics industry, which started 2008 facing slower economic growth and high energy and commodity prices, ended the year clouded in even more uncertainty.

The outlook for automotive electronics near term is not good and it's even worse for technology suppliers supporting this segment, but as all crisis events are unpleasant, once the storm moves through, opportunity begins to reseed itself.

The nanocoatings market is currently worth approximately US$814 in 2007. "One way" coating systems based on nanomaterials make up the bulk of this market, for example in anti-bacterial; protective and conductive coatings.

Investment levels are the lowest in over a decade. Spending on fab construction projects in 2009 is expected to be under $2 billion - the lowest level since 1999.

Worldwide nanotechnology thin film lithium-ion batteries are poised to achieve significant growth as units become more able to achieve deliver of power to electric vehicles efficiently.

An important feature of this industrial electronics market segment in Russia is the large number of relatively small-scale customers, including companies involved in the development and production of devices for their own internal use.