Global Bigdata Conference

It looks like 2017 is shaping up to be an interesting year in the embedded-technology space--for a variety of reasons. We're coming off a year that saw a number of large mergers, and the change in the U.S. political climate is significant. Tom Starnes, analyst with Objective Analysis, notes, "One country's loss is another's gain as corporations try to hold on to as much of their revenues as they can in very complex and competitive markets for sophisticated technology. Meantime, the very-global chip industry has been consolidating at a rate and with a mass not seen before, with all but a few companies struggling for profitability." Jim Handy says, "Objective Analysis expects the memory business to be highly profitable in 2017, followed by a collapse beginning in mid-2018."