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EU chip sales lowest in years
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Time to ketchup
Tue Apr 07 2009, 15:47
EUROPEAN SALES of chips are the lowest than they have been for more than a decade according to figures compiled by the European Semiconductor Industry Association.
Chip makers only made €1.6 billion in February and the ESIA thinks that some of this is due to the exchange rate imbalance of the Euro compared to the US Dollar.
Sales were down 7.4 per cent on the previous month and 28.9 per cent lower when compared with the same month a year ago.
Semiconductor sales declined by 25.2 per cent in 2009 against this time last year. µ
L'Inq
EE Times
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I would not knock HP, at least they changed some nVidia laptop mainboards with ATI ones; think of Dell who keep replacing and *still* selling broken nVidia laptop mainboards with weak nVidia chips as for my laptop.
I'm on my 3-rd mainboard now, any bets on how long this one lasts? I'm so very glad I paid Dell for 3 years warranty, woudn't you say?
Nick....in Europe we use a comma for decimals, not a point.
Indeed people is buying less. Think only of the cartloads of notebook with the defective Nvidia graphics chip that simply die (kindly out of warranty of 1 month or less). Who will ever invest money again in buying something that when declared faulty by the same selling company just gets a bios update to extend the chip life till the warranty expires. Ops HP...
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