Strategy Analytics Launches Strategic Technologies Practice; New Practice Demonstrates Strategy Analytics' Growth in Down Market

    BOSTON--Feb. 27, 2003--Strategy Analytics, the global research and consulting company, today announced its new Strategic Technologies Practice. The new practice provides global technology leaders with information, analysis and critical insights into new technologies that enable innovative wireless, broadband, automotive, telematics and consumer applications.
    Strategy Analytics' Strategic Technologies Practice encompasses two new Advisory Services, RF Component Strategies and Portable Enabling Technology Strategies. These new services complement Strategy Analytics' existing successful GaAs & High Speed Circuits Service.
    "The Strategic Technologies Practice builds upon our system level coverage by drilling down to component level dynamics," said Stephen Entwistle, vice president of the Strategic Technologies Practice. "Our new Advisory Services provide customers with a qualitative and quantitative roadmap for enabling technologies."
    RF Component Strategies (RFCS) focuses on strategically important technology, enabling pervasive wireless communications and the development of new form-factors. The service combines global coverage with in-depth analysis of key market trends, technology developments and business opportunities. It focuses on important growth applications in wireless communications, consumer electronics and fiber optic tele- and data-communications markets.
    The Portable Enabling Technology Strategies (PTS) service provides strategic evaluation of demand triggers and potential discontinuities for global leaders in media and storage, input, display, battery and power management, semiconductor and communications markets. PTS delivers strategic and tactical insights on device and enabling technology requirements in mobility, in-vehicle multimedia, and personal portable electronics. PTS builds on the terminal and system level forecasts and analysis in Strategy Analytics' Wireless Device, Broadband Device and In-Vehicle Telematics and Multimedia services, to offer global coverage with regional splits of enabling technologies' demand for information, communications and entertainment device markets.
    The GaAs & High Speed Circuits Service focuses on important applications in wireless communications, consumer electronics and fiber optic tele- and data-communications markets. It covers demand over the entire spectrum of end-user applications for GaAs ICs and discretes. The service also encompasses the industry's vertical supply-chain dynamics, including associated process equipment and chemicals. It provides in-depth coverage of both bulk and epitaxial wafer supply.

    About Strategy Analytics

    Strategy Analytics, Inc., a global research and consulting firm, provides timely insights and strategic business solutions to companies operating at the convergence of information, communications and entertainment technologies. With worldwide headquarters in Newton, MA and principal offices in England, France and Germany, Strategy Analytics focuses on market opportunities and challenges in the areas of Automotive Electronics, Broadband, Telematics, Wireless Strategies and Enabling Technologies. For more information, see www.strategyanalytics.com