«Although business investment has yet to pick up, consumer confidence and inventory replenishing continue to rise, driving the early stages of the overall recovery.»

«Semiconductor sales in April are continuing the steady growth exhibited in the first quarter of this year, another sign that the industry is rebounding from 2001.»

«We feel as though they not only heard us, but understand the situation and will respond in a way to bring about new programs. What's changed this time is a recognition of what we have to do to compete.»

«The issues we're dealing with here are what it will take to maintain this leadership in the industry . . . what will be required to establish the next generation of technology.»

«We have full confidence they will be implemented and we will be very successful. This is going to be a bipartisan effort.»

«2005 turned out to be a very good year for the semiconductor industry. Despite record energy prices and an unprecedented series of natural disasters, worldwide demand for semiconductors increased in all end markets. Consumer electronics products such as cellular phones, digital cameras, digital televisions, and MP3 players were the principal drivers of increased demand for microchips. Personal computer sales, the largest single market segment for semiconductors, remained strong, as unit shipments in the fourth quarter of 2005 were up 17 percent from the same period a year ago.»

«The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.»

«All in all, we're very well aligned with what the president laid out in his State of the Union address the other night.»

«The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust. For the first quarter of 2006, we expect sequential change in the total market will be in the range of plus or minus 1%.»

«This region represented 46.6% of the global market for microchips at year end. The largest share of the market is in China, which has become the world's leading manufacturer of electronics products.»