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Chipmakers Want a Bailout Too

Posted on October 02, 2008

The Semiconductor Industry Association said today that chips sales were up 5.5 percent in August compared with the year before, but cautioned that since more than half of chips go into consumer devices, the U.S. Congress needs to act to stabilize the economic situation. SIA president George Scalise added his pleas to those of other tech industry leaders saying, consumer confidence is essential to the entire supply chain of the global technology sector. A decade ago that wouldn t have rung true, but today even my two-year old has an MP3 player. The continued consumerization of technology...

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