Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!BILLW@SRI-KL.ARPA From: BILLW@SRI-KL.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Chip shortage is over. Message-ID: <12899@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 16:58:13 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12899 Posted: Mon Aug 27 16:58:13 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Aug-84 10:00:43 EDT Lines: 19 From: William Chops Westfield There was a NYT newswire article yesterday that I would send, except we arent allowed to do so due to copyrights and things. The gist is that "A critical shortage of semiconductors appears to be easing". Esp: backlog of 64K memories and EPROMS have declined sharply. They say that part of the relief seems to be due to slowing of sales of PCs. In July, orders for semiconductors exceeded shipments by 6%, compared with a high (in january) of 53% [wow!]. Estimates are that US manufacturer will ship 13.5 billion dollars f semiconductor products (9.6 billion in 83), and $11.2 billion worth of semis will be sold in the US (from 7.76 billion in 83). BillW -------