“Sales of semiconductors are at their highest ever level, said Gartner on Friday, as they broke a five-year-old record to reach $235bn. The last time they approached this level was when worldwide revenue hit $223bn in 2000,” Colin Barker reports for ZDNet UK. “The total revenue of $235bn represents a 6.9 percent increase from 2004 said Gartner, stressing that its figures were based on preliminary results.”
Barker reports, “The healthy outlook was attributable to ‘strong growth in the NAND flash market,’ according to Andrew Norwood, research vice-president at Gartner. ‘The continuing strong demand for flash card and USB flash drives in 2005, along with the successful launch of the iPod shuffle by Apple at the start of 2005 and the release later in the year of the iPod nano, will drive this device market to the highest revenue performance in 2005.'”
Full article here.
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Apple saves the day again!
The whole f-cking tech industry — and most of NASDAQ — should get down on their hands and knees and kiss Steve Jobs royal ass.
Almost single-handedly keeping the entire sector from tanking as well as keeping the public’s eye focused on actual quality has got to be worth something.
Maybe they should all send Apple a dividend share.
Horn Man is right. Having bought my first Mac on ’97 (how brave of me
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”rolleyes” style=”border:0;” /> ) it’s been much much fun to watch Apple go from “Doomed!”, to “Insignificant Niche Player”, to begrudgingly accepted, if not tacitly admitted to “Market Influencer”.
“Here he comes to save the day, Steve Jobs is on the way” lifted from Mighty mouse. Noticed a popup ad from Microsoft serveron this site, have you sold out MDN?
Horn man:
I offer no analysis of these data, but NASDAQ appears to be performing quite well right now.
I give. How do I do that?
Mike
^ Yaah, it’s performing well because APPLE IS PERFORMING WELL!!!!!
Are the morons who run tis site EVER going to learn how to make a website that doesn’t suck, design wise?
Doubt it!
Yo, McPhee, your URL is screwing up this webpage!