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Electronics Outlook 2014: New Paradigm Takes Hold?-January 15, 2014 |
There's an old saying: Forecasting an electronics outlook is like trying to drive a car blindfolded and following directions given by a person who is looking out the back window.
Still, that's never stopped us before, so let's gaze into the crystal ball for a bit.
The big question for 2014, I think, is not how the industry is going to fare but how fundamentally different it is than in years past.
In the old days, there was some predictability: We boomed and we busted, with wild supply-demand swings hitched to particular, large industries: mil/aero, computing and so forth.