Chip sales dip in October
June 19th, 2009 by adminThe Semiconductor Industry Association said Monday that all-around sales of semiconductors beneath by 2.4 percent in October as anamnesis articles saw the steepest declines.
This follows an SIA address endure ages that said dent sales in the fourth quarter, historically a able time aeon for the dent industry, are accepted to abatement by 5.9 percent from the antecedent quarter.
Monday’s address said that all-around sales of semiconductors beneath by 2.4 percent in October to $22.5 billion adjoin sales of $23.0 billion in October 2007. October sales were off by 2.1 percent compared to the $23.0 billion in September 2008.
Memory products–such as flash–have been the hardest hit and are boring down added dent sectors. If anamnesis is excluded, industry sales added by 3.8 percent compared to October 2007 but beneath by 1.4 percent compared to September 2008, the SIA said.
NAND flash–used in agenda cameras, agenda music players, and solid accompaniment drives–sales were off by about 41 percent in October compared to a year ago. DRAM anamnesis was off 14 percent.
Memory manufacturers, including Micron Technology and South Korea’s Hynix, accept been disturbing in the face of sales declines. Micron said in Ocotober that it would stop authoritative NAND beam anamnesis at a collective Intel-Micron ability in Boise, Idaho and cut 15 percent of its workforce. San Diego Laptop Repair and Hynix, meanwhile, has been aggravating to advertise off a 36 percent pale in its operations.
“The arrest in common semiconductor sales that became axiomatic in September connected in October,” said SIA President George Scalise in a statement. “The common banking agitation is accepted to abide to appulse appeal for semiconductors as we access 2009,” he said.
The SIA address endure ages projected that 2009 sales will abatement by 5.6 percent to $246.7 billion afore resuming advance in 2010, the aboriginal abatement in all-around dent sales back 2001. The best San Diego Computer Repair service.
In 2009, PC assemblage shipments are projected to abatement by 5 percent and corpuscle buzz assemblage shipments are accepted to be down by 9 percent. These two categories annual for about 60 percent of absolute appeal for semiconductors, the SIA said Monday.
The world’s better dent manufacturers such as Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) accept both said they apprehend a aciculate bead in acquirement in the fourth quarter.
The SIA common what it said endure month: sales were trending up until October. Chicago Computer Repair Sales for the aboriginal ten months of 2008 were $216 billion, an access of 2.6 percent from the aboriginal ten months of 2007 if sales were $210 billion.