News update: The latest news from the advanced semiconductor industry worldwide

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 678 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(00)90562-3

✦ Synopsis

ow dependence on mobiles from 25m to 20m).According to Per Lindberg of Dresner Kleinwort Benson, this is mainly due to shortages of components (e.g. SRAM silicon) and miscalculations in product-mix.

Many IC suppliers are therefore diversifying their wireless customer base (focusing on new design wins). However, a return to rapid growth is expected in the next quarter. Nokia still expects sales to be over 400m, while Ron Slaymaker (vp of investor relations for DSP chip supplier Texas Instruments) reckons that 435m may still be achievable (60% up on 1999).