Chip market set for modest growth in 2011

By Peter Clarke – 2011 as a “normal” year for the semiconductor industry in which growth is set to be in the 2 to 6 percent range.

I am predicting worldwide semiconductor market for the fourth quarter of 2010 at about $75.67 to $75.80 billion which would produce an annual global chip market for 2010 of a about $298.5 billion. This would be up 31.9 percent on the annual sales of $226.31...