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[The Duke of URL]

News > Hardware > Chips Tuesday 1st June 2004

Healthy chip sales forecast

June 01, 2004, 15:20 BST

Chip sales will grow by more than a quarter this year, according to an industry group

Global chip sales are likely to grow 28.4 percent to a record $213.6bn in 2004, boosted by strong demand for PCs, cellphones, DVD recorders and other electronics products, an industry group said on Tuesday.

The forecast by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics group is more optimistic than one the organisation made in October, when it predicted 19.4 percent growth for 2004.

"Demand for digital electronics products like DVD recorders and digital...


http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chips/0,39020354,39156400,00.htm

[The Duke of URL]

barrett interview:

Tejas (a version of the Pentium 4 due out later this year) has been eliminated from the road map and observers believe notebook and desktop processors are going to converge again. So is the Pentium 4 having a shorter lifespan than expected?


B: You know, we are not magicians. It takes us several years to develop a microprocessor from scratch and as the environment and the ecosystem changes around you. So you adapt to it. You do not just stick to your guns saying, "The hell with the environment. We will do whatever we want to do, independent of what the market wants." Canceling Tejas and the acceleration of the dual core seems to fit right into that general category of using our resources for the best possible returns. I think even Peter Drucker would be happy with that.

[facsnotfiction]

wbmw, Nokia is the exception, I have seen and heard that Intel is loosing elsewhere in terms of both new and existing business. I guess you missed those articles, or you don't yet understand the newswires.