Market Report: ‘Perfect Storm’ zaps 1Q’07 global electronics sales
Friday, 11 May 2007
After a strong finish last year, the global electronics industry definitely cooled in early 2007. A combination of slower economic growth, normal seasonality, February’s Chinese New Year shutdown, the delay and then tepid sales of Vista PCs and the resulting excess component inventories combined to cause our anticipated ‘soft landing’ to look more like crash – especially in SE Asia. Read the full column (PDF)...
This article was taken from Global SMT & Packaging Vol. 7 No. 5 - May 2007
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Fortunately even the most conservative most prognosticators now see at least a subdued “recovery” in 2010. 
