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Daniel C. McCarthy

The good news last year for industrial lasers and machine vision markets in North America was that their decline trailed the decline of the markets they supplied. The bad news is that their recovery will also trail the return of those markets. Semiconductor revenues alone dropped 54 percent between 2000 and 2001, while electronics lost 27 percent. The size of those two markets relative to other machine vision sectors and the size of their declines outstripped slight gains in smaller sectors. Overall, revenues from the North American market declined approximately 7 percent in 2001. Units...Read full article

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