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percent globally from Marchy to Aprilto $15.6 billion, accordiny to a report Despite that rise, sales were still about 25 percentt below the $20.9 billiomn reported last April, the (SIA) “The better-than-expected 6.4 percent sequential increase in April salew was driven by moderate improvementw in a number of end-demand drivers and inventoryu replenishment,” said SIA President George “The PC market – a majo r consumer of semiconductors – has been stronge r than predicted earlier in the Despite that, Scalise said, PC unit sales in 2009 are expected to decline by aboutr 6 percent, compared to earlier forecastzs of a decline in the range of 12 percent.
“Visibility remains limited,” Scalise said. “Twop consecutive months of sequential sales growth may be an indicatioh of a return to more normao seasonal sales patterns in somemarket sectors, albeit at lowef sales levels than last year.”