World Chip Plants Run at Fastest Rate in 4 Years
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The world’s chip factories operated at their fastest rate in almost four years in the April-June period, boosted by demand for chips for cellphones and digital appliances such as flat-panel TVs, an industry group said.
Factories ran at an average of 95.4% of capacity, which marked a sixth straight quarterly increase, the Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics group said.
The rate was the highest since it hit 96.4% in the third quarter of 2000.
After a boom that year, the semiconductor market went into a severe downturn in 2001 and 2002.
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