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Power management semiconductor industry opens champers
A JOLLY CHRISTMAS is all but here for the power-management semiconductor sector according to analysts Isuppli.
The beancounters have added up the numbers and divided by their shoe size and said that the industry is growing thanks to gains in the commercial and industrial sectors. Power management semiconductors will generate $31.4 billion of sales this year, an increase of 40 per cent from last year. The year's expansion reverses the 60 per cent losses of a year ago and it will probably be unequalled during the next four years.
Analyst Marijana Vukicevic said revenue will continue to expand into the third quarter, after which the market will slow as the year ends. The second half of the year, growth will depend on the demand from the consumer electronics, wireless and data processing sectors. All that will depend on consumer confidence. Vukicevic said prices are likely to increase as backlogs ease, and some time will be needed before supply catches up with demand.
The Isuppli analyst added that for five years, a good part of growth in power-management semiconductors will derive from the alternative energy market. µ
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"Power management semiconductors will generate $31.4 billion of sales this year, an increase of 40 per cent from last year. The year's expansion reverses the 60 per cent losses of a year ago"
Okay we'll call 2008 100% or 1, so a loss of 60% would put us at 40%. So far so good, but you said the 40% increase reversed the 60% losses. Sorry dude, but 40% +40%*40% is 66%, which means, if you didn't screw up your percentage math(happens a lot, spotted it in Wired magazine a while back) they are still way lower than 2008.
Can we get a correction or clarification here?