Sales of computer circuits will in 2009 to reach a real bottom level. According to the latest studies published, we can expect that total sales in the semiconductor market falls by as much as 12.4 percent compared to 2008. That represents about $ 32 billion in turnover dropped which is a really bad result, but after all, far exceeding expectations. At the beginning of the year went to forecast which indicated that sales could fall as much as 20 percent.

The only one of the 20 largest semiconductor manufacturers in the market that seems to show positive figures in 2009 are Samsung Electronics, with an increase in turnover of 1.3%.

The worst has passed for Sony, and Freescale Semiconductor, which both lost over 32% of its turnover since 2008. We see the CPU manufacturers AMD and Intel have both lost, AMD 7.6% while AMD fared slightly better with a rod of 5%.

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