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April 'actual' chip data, shows 15.5% annual fall
The fall was considerably less than the 31.5 percent annual fall recorded in March 2009, indicating that the semiconductor market could be on a fast recovery track after the supply chain stall that took place in the first quarter of 2009. However, fundamental demand for consumer goods is likely to remain suppressed during 2009 indicating it may take some time for annual month-to-month comparisons to go positive.
The SIA publishes WSTS numbers as a three-month average. It argues that this smoothes out the data which would otherwise display the effect of in-quarter reporting that tend to treat March, June, September and December as five-week months. However, it is still possible to compare actual sales year-on-year and avoid such problems.
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