Semiconductor chip sales rise slightly for the first quarter
March sales were also up slightly from a year ago.
March sales were also up slightly from a year ago.
The $150 billion semiconductor industry has a list of what it needs to make the U.S. competitive.
The larger high-tech industry employs 6 million people.
The chip industry grew a scant 0.4 percent in 2011, but that was enough to push it to a record $299.5 billion for the year. That wasn’t a bad performance given a weak global economy and disasters in Japan and …