Perhaps most interesting is that the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) which compiles numbers from all the charted companies except SanDisk showed aggregate bit growth lower than that of any of the companies on the chart.

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If you take the EU and the U.S. and aggregate the two, you probably come into a positive growth area, a little bit above zero something.

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