With this surge in production capacity, the former "scarcity value" of silicon chips has disappeared, but at the same time sales in the integrated circuits 'main market--personal computers--were not as brisk this year as had been expected, and PC market growth fell back to 15 % from last year's 25 %. This hit semiconductor sales hard.
產能激增，從前那種「物以稀為貴」的時代一去不返；偏偏積體電路最主要的應用市場﹘﹘個人電腦，今年的銷售熱度不如預期，市場成長率從去年的百分之二十五滑落為百分之十五，大大影響了半導體的銷路。