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IPC Releases Book-to-Bill Ratio and PCB Business Report for July 2002
August 29, 2002 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
The U.S. Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Industry Book-to-Bill Ratio for July 2002 was 0.99. Sales billed (shipments) in July 2002 decreased 7.6 percent from July 2001 and orders booked increased 14.5 percent from July 2001.
San Mateo, Calif. -- According to ElectroniCast's Storage Area Network (SAN) Fiber Optic Interconnect study, global consumption of fiber optic components in SANs and remote storage area networks (RSAN), with transfer capability of 100 Gbps and higher, reached $142 million in 2001 (down from $181 million in 2000) and will expand at an average 53 percent per year reaching $1.32 billion by 2006.