But analysts said that while the ratio was within the range of expectations, which ran from 0.88 to 0.93, the underlying figures still showed a significant decline in orders, and an end to the industry's ability to defy normal cyclical demand.
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Amelio divided products into two divisions : Standard Products group which comprised low-margin, logic and memory chips-commodity products which were more susceptible to cyclical demands and through which National Semiconductor had matured; and Communications & Computing group which comprised high-margin, value-added analogue and mixed-signal chips.
