Worldwide semiconductors sales during November totaled $23.1 billion — a 2.3 percent rise from one year earlier, the Semiconductor Industry organization said in its latest report. Rising energy prices and concerns about subprime lending issues apparently had no significant impact on consumer spending for electronic products during the holiday shopping season, the industry trade organization noted.

Consumer products with high semiconductor subject matter, such as music and multimedia players, LCD TVs, and digital cameras, all seem to have

enjoyed robust holiday sales, said SIA President George Scalise, who noted that the products all finished the year with very healthy increases.

Still, not all is rosy in chipland. “While total semiconductor sales continue on pace to surpass the record level of 2006, it will take very strong sales in December to meet our forecast of 3.8 percent growth in 2007,” Scalise said. Final December sales figures will not be available […]

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