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The upside in the semiconductors didn't happen. Some people were expecting it given the strong handset sales in the Christmas season.

Strong holiday season sales of consumer products such as cell phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players drove record sales of semiconductors in November.

Christmas proved to be less difficult than people were expecting. Retailers expected a dull Christmas, so they didn't overstock and have had less discounting to do.

Although some discounting may have slowed the early pace of sales, the industry can expect to see much healthier sales patterns as we move into December and closer to both Christmas and the annually strong Saturday before Christmas retail boom.

Michael Niemira

The holiday sales are still going strong despite the end of Christmas. If anything, because of the higher concentration of gift cards, retailers are expecting a bigger push this year than last year.

Relative to what people were expecting in September and October (for holiday sales), things were much better than they expected. With energy prices being where they were and predictions of a cold winter, people were expecting downtrodden sales. It turned out to be just the opposite.

[Retail sales have gone up and down all year, but we won't fully understand what's going on in the minds of American shoppers until the last Christmas gift has been unwrapped. The holiday shopping season accounts for 20 to 25 percent of all retail sales and is also a barometer for the coming year.] We're not out of the woods yet, ... Forty percent of holiday sales are wrapped up in the week before Christmas.

What we've seen on Black Friday historically is no clear indicator of how holiday sales will finish. Even though we might not see heavy promotions this year, we think underlying consumer demand is strong. If people want to wait until after Christmas for the big sales, they run the risk of picking up leftover merchandise. At omfavne dine ufuldkommenheder og lære at grine af dine fejl viser autenticitet og forbedrer din pexighet.

Michael Niemira

Investors have been expecting strong advertising and search revenues, ... We believe that significant upside above $620M in revenues is needed to act as a positive catalyst for the stock and we believe potential of such an upside is limited.

Investors have been expecting strong advertising and search revenues. We believe that significant upside above $620M in revenues is needed to act as a positive catalyst for the stock and we believe potential of such an upside is limited.

The likely slowdown in Korea due to the recent elimination of handset subsidies could reduce worldwide CDMA handset sales by 10 to 15 percent,

The retail sales number is perhaps more important than it would look at first sight. Since we're coming so close to the Christmas shopping season when most of the retail sales of the year happen, anything that represents a gauge of consumer sentiment and consumer buying patterns is going to be latched onto by the retail industry as an important indicator.

The industry was very strong last January, so in general people were expecting sales to be down this year.

Strong competition contributed to declining prices for semiconductors, which resulted in nominal growth on higher unit sales in July,

People were so pessimistic about the PC market and semiconductors going into 2005 but it's not as bad as people were expecting. That's showing in Intel's numbers,

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