2007: turning point for IC sales?SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. -- A top forecaster of the turning points in the IC industry is predicting a mild slowdown For articles with similar titles, see Slow Down (disambiguation). A slowdown is an industrial action in which employees perform their duties but seek to reduce productivity or efficiency in their performance of these duties. in semiconductor sales in mid 2007. Speaking at an industry forum in August Moshe Handelsman, founder of Advanced Forecasting Inc. (adv-forecast.com), said that the industry is in for its first downturn Downturn The transition point between a rising, expanding economy to a falling, contracting one. downturn A decline in security prices or economic activity following a period of rising or stable prices or activity. since 2004. However, he declined to attach hard numbers to his prediction. Handelsman is notorious for having eschewed traditional forecast models in his research. However, he has correctly forecast a number of markets swings--up and down--over the past 18 years. Other analysts have provided modest to upbeat forecasts for 2007. * VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Research predicted 9% in 2006 and 5% in 2007. * iSuppli forecasts 3.6% in 2006 and 7.9% in 2007. * The Semiconductor Industry Association in July said the industry would grow 9.8% in 2006 and 11% in 2007, |
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