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To: StanX Long who wrote (56756)	12/1/2001 9:03:13 PM
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Communications ICs will recovery slowly after 30.6% drop this year, says report Semiconductor Business News (11/30/01 08:46 a.m. EST) siliconstrategies.com SCOTTSDALE, Calif. -- Worldwide revenues for communications ICs will plunge 30.6% to $28.8 billion in 2001 compared to $41.5 million in 2000, and chip sales in this troubled sector will not exceed last year's record until 2004, according to a new forecast from IC Insights Inc. Communications IC sales are expected to increase slightly by less than 3% in 2002 to $29.6 billion, said the research firm in a newsletter this week. Like many other IC segments, communications integrated circuits have been hit hard by a slowdown in shipments to end users due to recessions and weak economic conditions around the world, said the Scottsdale-based market research firm. Worldwide sales of communications systems--such as network routers, telecom switches, and wireless telephones--will dropped 15% in 2001 to $224 billion from $265 billion in 2000, according to IC Insights. The decline was greater than computers/office systems (-13%) and consumer products (-5%).