George Scalise Expected Quotations

Cell phone unit sales increased by 31% from the first quarter of 2005 and ran substantially ahead of expectations. Unit sales are now expected to reach one billion this year.

The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories.

As far as the biggest surprise goes, it would have to be that the increase in energy costs did not impact demand at all, ... When we put our forecast together a year ago. we were quite conservative and expected demand to be flat.

The financial turbulence of Asia and other market changes have crimped the expected expansion of global chip markets in early 1998,