United States 1, 2009 an authoritative industry organization, said in April this year, the global semiconductor chip sales to achieve continuous growth of the second month, indicating that the IT market may be partly a recovery signs.
The latest report released by the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association show that in April this year, the global chip sales reached $ 15.6 billion, up 6.4% compared with March. The association has released a report in early May, said in March this year, the global chip sales up 3.3% compared to February.
President of the Association, George Scarborough risedronate in a press release that global chip sales growth for two consecutive months to maintain the chain, may mean IT market began to return to more seasonal part of the normal development of the model features up.
Scarborough risedronate analysts say, in April this year, the global chip sales growth exceeded expectations qoq, mainly by demand for chips in some industries and inventory replenishment, etc. to promote. He noted that global sales of nearly 60 percent of semiconductor chips used in personal computers and mobile phones, these two sectors to the current situation than originally anticipated to be optimistic.
But he also pointed out that chip sales are still significantly lower than last year’s level, the market outlook is still not clear. According to the Association, in April this year, the global chip sales compared with last year declined by about 25%. |
