PC, phone demand strong in 2010, says SIA's Scalise

Monday, 01 February 2010 00:00

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Units sales of PCs and cellphones will grow in the low-to-mid teens of percent in 2010, providing a "solid platform for chip sales," according to George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)."PC, phone demand strong in 2010, says SIA's Scalise "

Scalise was commenting as the SIA announced that global semiconductor sales were $226.3 billion in 2009, a decline of 9 percent from 2008 when sales were $248.6 billion.

The three-month average sales figure for December of $22.43 billion was an increase of 29 percent from December 2008, when three-month average sales were $17.41 billion. December sales declined by 1.2 percent from November, when sales were $22.71 billion.

The SIA publishes WSTS monthly numbers as a three-month average arguing that this smoothes out the data which would otherwise display the effects of in-quarter reporting that tend to treat March, June, September and December as five-week months.

Read more in the Feburary 1, 2010 EE Times

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