Note: Vendor shipments are branded shipments and exclude OEM sales for all vendors.

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The NAND market picked up on higher OEM-related demand, improving quarter-on-quarter sales, particularly in solution products such as Solid State Drives (SSDs) for notebook PCs and Embedded Multimedia Cards (eMMC), but a steepening price decline hampered stable growth.

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That goal includes components of being the most profitable OEM, and the best employer, and offering customers the best experience, as well as a sales-volume goal of 10 million units a year, Tony Cervone, head of communications for Volkswagen of America, told reporters.

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Fiscal second quarter sales increased by 21.1%, driven by the Hirschmann acquisition and increases in mobile OEM and in accessories.

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