Microprocessor sales up 3% in 2007

Sales of microprocessors rose 3% in 2007 as chip companies sold $270 billion worth of chips worldwide, according to Gartner. Interl had 12.2% market share, followed by Samsung with 7.7%, Toshiba with 4.6% and Texas Instruments with 4.2%.

Published on: December 14, 2007 Department: Semiconductors

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EMEA router market generated $1.01 bln in Q1 2008.
Internet ads grew by 23.9% to $7.1 bln in Q1 2008
Global PC COU shipments slowed in Q1 2008 to –9.2%
CPU market shares in Q1 2008: Intel - 78.9%, AMD - 20.9%
Semiconductor sales up 5.9% in April 2008
Communication chips generated $36.6 bln in 2007
Small displays to generate $6.4 bln in Q1 2008
1 bln GPS ICs to ship in 2013
Semiconductors up 3.3% in 2007
$21.5 bln worth of semiconductors sold in January 2008
$255.6 bln worth of semiconductors sold in 2007
Semiconductor revenues to grow 2.4% in 2008
China’s semiconductor market to surpass $28 bln by 2011
21 mln PC-powered processors by 2015
Silicon wafer area shipments up 8% in 2007
Semiconductor sales up 3.2% in 2007
PC CPU shipments up 12.6% in 2007
Q4 2007 CPU market shares: Intel - 76.7%, AMD - 23.1%
PC server CPUs grew 17% in Q4 2007
NAND flash demand to increase by 130% in 2008
Worldwide semiconductor revenues in 2007
419 mln NFC chipsets to ship in 2012
Semiconductor sales up 2.3% in November 2007
High-performance ceramic coatings generated $1.3 bln in 2006
Semiconductor capex spending to be down 10% in 2008
Optoelectronics generated $565 bln in 2006
Microprocessor sales up 3% in 2007
Semiconductor sales up 5% in October 2007
Semiconductor packaging materials to generate $15.5 bln in 2007
243 removable flash cards to be shipped by 2011
Semiconductor sales up 5.9% in September 2007
Array processing equipment for TFT-LCDs to increase 20% in 2008
$21.45 bln worth of semiconductors sold in August 2007
LCD TV semiconductors to generate $7.4 bln in 2011
DRAM to grow 2.5% in 2007
Nanofibers generated $43.2 mln in 2006
Automotive microcontrollers to grow by 63% in 2006-2010
Memory cards for mobile phones to generate $7 bln by 2007
Semiconductor market to earn $269.9 bln in 2007
700 mln flash cards to sell in 2007
Chip equipment spending to reach $43.7 bln in 2008
Image sensors to grow at 13.6% a year
CPU shares in Q 2007: Intel - 78.8%, AMD - 13.4%
Global chip sales up 2.2% in July 2007
LED lamp sales to reach $1 bln by 2011
Array processing equipment for TFT-LCDs to decrease 14% in 2007
DVD recorder semiconductors market to drop below $500 mln in 2008
Semiconductor plant utilization rate ip 89.7% in Q2 2007
Graphics chips shipments in Q2 2007
PCB market to generate $50 bln in 2007
Global DRAM revenues down 24.1% in Q1 2007
$11.06 bln worth of semiconductor manufacturing equipment sold in Q2 2007
Semiconductor capital spending to grow 0.6% in 2007
Wafer capacity to expand 12.5% in 2007
Application processors to generate $4 bln in 2007
Power-management semiconductors to generate $39.9 bln by 2011
1.6 bln MPEG IC units to ship by 2011
Digital TV semiconductor market to generate $14.2 bln in 2011
EDA revenues up 10% in Q1 2007
$121 bln worth of semiconductors sold in the first half of 2007
$66.3 bln worth of semiconductors shipped in China in 2006
7,461 mln pounds of copper used in 2006
Lithography market to grow only 5.8%
Semiconductor capital spending grew 19% in 2006
Dry etch equipment market grew 40.4% in 2006
Memory revenues to fall by 4.7% in 2007
25% of flash memory produced in Q3 2007 to go into Apple products
Global DRAM module market to reach $31 bln in 2007
Southeast Asian contract manufacturing to generate $24.9 bln by 2011
5 top chip manufacturers control 32% of production
Application processor market to reach $4 bln in 2007 before heading downward
Global semiconductor sales up 2.4% in May 2007
DSP shipments down 9% in April 2007
Semiconductos to generate $51.7 bln in 2007 in China
Semiconductor sales to grow only by 1.8% in 2007
Semiconductor photomask market up 5.4% in 2006
Semiconductor metrology market up 16.4% in 2006
OLED-TV shipments to grow at 170.6% a year
POS electronic displays to generate $233.8 mln by 2010
191 mln displays for smartcards and USB drives to ship by 2011
Global semiconductor sales reached $19.9 bln in April 2007
Semiconductor revenues to grow 2.5% in 2007
MEMS generated $6 bln in sales in 2006
China will account for 76% of Asian EMS/ODM by 2011
DSP market to grow 8% in 2007
Graphics chips down 5.5% in Q1 2007
LED flash to grow at 23% a year
NOR flash revenues down 11.9% in Q1 2007
ASICs for portable media players to generate $1.67 bln by 2010
Excess semiconductor inventory down to $2.5 bln in Q1 2007
Semiconductor sales up 1% in March 2007
Semiconductors to generate $281.4 bln in 2007
Silicon epitaxy up 92% in 2006
Microprocessor market in Q1 2007: Intel - 80.2%, AMD - 11.1%
Semiconductors generated $247.7 bln in 2006
Semiconductor capex up 19% in 2006
Foundry services generated $21.6 bln in 2006
42% of semiconductors in 2011 to go into PCs
Silicon intellectual property revenues up 15% in 2006
Semiconductor market to generate $316 bln in 2008
GaAs devices generated 35% profit margins in Q4 2006
$20.09 bln worth of semiconductors sold in February 2007
Top semiconductor suppliers in 2006
EDA industry up 11% in 2006
Discrete semiconductor revenues up 8.8% in 2006
Semiconductor integrated circuit packages to grow at 9.2% a year
$21.47 bln worth of semiconductors sold in January 2007
DRAM revenues up 17.5% in Q4 2006
Global semiconductor sales up 9.2% in January 2007
8 bln square inches of silicon wafers shipped in 2006
7.5 mln NAS-on-chip units to ship in 2011
Semiconductor sales reached $247.7 bln in 2006
DRAm prices down 31.3% since January 2007
PC chip sales generated $73.6 bln in 2006
Top NOR suppliers in Q4 2006
Taiwan to lead the world in semiconductor fab equipment spending
Top NOR suppliers in 2006
Top semiconductor vendors in 2006: Intel, Samsung, TI, Toshiba
OLED market to generate $1.4 bln in 2007
Array processing for TFT-LCDs dropped 11% in 2006
Semiconductor market to grow by 12% in 2007
$2.1 bln worth of ICs to sell in India by 2010
$68.7 bln to be spent by chip designers in the US in 2007
Semiconductors to generate $285.8 bln in 2007
65% of all handsets shipped in 2006 supported microSD
Global semiconductor sales generated $248 bln in 2006
Semiconductor surplus is at $4.3 bln in Q4 2006
Organic electronics to generate $19.7 bln by 2012
Timing devices to generate $5.7 bln in 2011
Global memory revenues up 21.5% in 2006
Global chip sales up 11.3% in November 2006
Semiconductor sales to reach $248.8 bln in 2006
DRAM sales up 33% in Q3 2006
NAND flash memory market in Q3 2006
DRAM and SRAM market in 2005-2010
Global semiconductor sales to reach $255.7 bln in 2006
Global semiconductor revenues up 11% in 2006
NOR flash market in Q3 2006
Excess semiconductor supply is at $3.9 bln
Third-party DRAM modules generated $5.1 bln in the first half of 2006
Global chip sales up 9.3% in September 2006
Demand for copper slurry for CMP to grow 26% in 2007
Worldwide semiconductor capex to grow 15.1% in 2006
Array processing equipment for TFT-LCD to drop 10.2% in 2006
Chip card shipments up 14% in 2005
EDA to grow 13.3% in 2006
Worldwide NAND flash revenues to reach $13 bln in 2006
Digital television semiconductors to generate $7.7 bln by 2010
Lithography market to grow 8% in 2007
Semiconductor manufacturing in China to grow 11-15%
Silicon wafer shipments to grow 18% in 2006
$20.5 bln worth of semiconductors sold in August 2006
LED market to grow at 10.6% a year
US to own 11% of advanced semiconductor production market in 2006
IC revenues to grow 8% in 2006
MOEMS market to reach $4.5 bln by 2010
Chip cards up 14% in 2005
Photomask market to grow 4.3% in 2006
Nokia and Motorola to increase semiconductor spending by 15.1% and 14.5% in 2006
Photomask sales to drop 13% in 2006
Memory revenues to grow 20% in 2006
Top semiconductor suppliers in Q2 2006
DRAM inventory down 18.3% in August 2006
Global chip sales reached $20.1 bln in July 2006
Process control market to grow 9.6% in 2006
Photoresist revenues to grow 12.7% in 2006
Asian foundries accounted for 90.8% of foundry revenues in 2005
Foundry revenues reached $18.24 bln in 2005
Baseband and RF ASIC revenue up 5% in 2005
$5.83 bln of semiconductor equipment booked in July 2006
Automotive grade semiconductors to reach $18 bln in 2006
High power RF semiconductors to generate $1 bln by 2011
NAND flash sales down to $2.7 bln in Q2 2006
$3.99 bln worth of semiconductors sold in June 2006
Q2 2006 NOR flash revenues up 19%
Semiconductor IP to grow 24.9% in 2006
DRAM generated $7.4 bln in Q2 2006
IC market to grow 11% in 2006
Top 12 IT vendors took 30.22% of Western European retail IT
Global semiconductor manufacturing chemicals market up 6.1% in 2005
AMD market share above 22% globally
Foundry revenue to grow 18.8% in 2006
Hard drive semiconductors up 24% in 2005
Automotive semiconductors to rise by 5% in 2006
Chip sales reached $19.4 bln in June 2006
Global DRAM revenue reached $7.5 bln in Q2 2006
Silicon wafer demand to grow 18% in 2006
Lithography tools to generate $6.4 bln in 2006
317 mln Bluetooth ICs shipped in 2005
CPU market in Q2 2006: Intel - 82.2%, AMD - 16.2%
Excess semiconductor stockpiles reached $22 bln in Q2 2006
Photoresist revenue up 7.9% in 2005
Steppers to generate $6.4 bln in 2006
65.1% of graphics chips and integrated graphics chipsets
Wired telecom ASICs up 2% in 2005
Global photomask revenues to grow at 4.8% a year
DVD recorder ICs to generate $778 mln in 2010
Removable solid-state storage up 44% in 2005
Research and development spending by semiconductor companies reached $30 bln in 2005
MoCA and HomePlug chip shipments to reach $100 mln in 2006
Semiconductor demand in China to grow by 18% in 2006
5.3% of all integrated circuits shipped in 2005 were flip chips
Semiconductor equipment demand to jump 19% in 2006
Top 10 semiconductor suppliers in China
Memory sales reached $49.8 bln in 2005
Indian DSP market to generate $863 mln n 2006
Top 10 fabless semiconductor companies in China
Electronic design automation revenues up 10% in Q1 2006
Array processing equipment for TFT-LCDs to drop 10.2% in 2006
Memory revenue to grow 15.5% in 2006
Chip sales up 0.4% in May 2006
Semiconductors generated $234.6 bln in 2005
Global semiconductor revenue to reach $255.7 bln in 2006
Flash memory sales to grow 20% in 2006
DRAM sales to grow by 9.1% in 2006
DSP sales to grow 18.5% in 2006
Microcontroller sales to grow by 1.9% in 2006
Discrete products to grow by 4.9% in 2006
Global semiconductor sales to grow by 9.8% in 2006
Silicon wafers market up 9% in 2005
Memory revenues to grow 15.5% in 2006
Semiconductor fab automation tools to grow at 50% through 2008
Semiconductor sales to grow 9.8% in 2006, 11% in 2007
Global semiconductor sales to grow 10.6% in 2006
Flash memory sales to reach $18.7 bln by 2010
Semiconductor sales up 8.1% in April 2006
Semiconductor market to grow 10% in 2006
Asia-Pacific semiconductor market to reach $116 bln in in 2006, $131 bln in 2007
Global semiconductor market to grow by 10.1% in 2006
Global market for semiconductor manufacturing materials up 6.1% in 2005
NAND flash shipments to grow 196% in megabytes in 2006
Semiconductor contract assembly and test services up 12.6% in 2005
Electronic parts are a $140 bln industry in the US
Semiconductor equipment revenues down 10.5% in 2005
FPGA shipments to reach $2.75 bln by 2010
Semiconductor equipment billings reached $9.58 bln in Q1 2006
Semiconductor chips market to reach $259.5 bln in 2006
ASIC revenue to grow 10.8% in 2006
Chemical mechanical planarization equipment down 19.4% in 2006
Global foundry revenues to grow 19.8% in 2006
Semiconductor sales to grow 6.8% in 2006
China to buy a third of all semiconductors by 2010
Semiconductors and electronic components manufacturing generates $150 bln in the US
OLEDs and flexible displays to reach $10.2 bln by 2011
Semiconductor equipment sales to grow 14.3% in 2006
Asian semiconductor market to grow to $203 bln in 2010
Global semiconductor spending to grow 9% in 2006
DRAM market leaders in Q1 2006: Samsung, Infineon, Hynix, Micron
241 mln Intel microprocessors to ship in 2009
DRAM sales to fall 5.1% in 2006
Litography market generated $4.8 bln in 2005
Global semiconductor market to grow 7.6% in 2006, 5.1% in 2007, 13.8% in 2008
North American semiconductor manufacturing sales up 5% in March 2006
Wired communications semiconductors to grow by 4.4% in 2006
771.1 mln cellular connections in Asia-Pacific in Q3 2005
MEMS generated $7 bln in 2005
638 mln multi-core microprocessors to sell in 2015
14.6 mln wireless cellular modems to ship in 2009
Semiconductors to generate $285.2 bln by 2007
Gallium Arsenide devices to generate $3 bln in 2006
Chip market to grow to $254.7 bln in 2006
Electronics production for 2005 to top $1.2 trillion
Foundry revenues to increase by 29% in 2006
October 2005 chip sales reached $20.3 bln
Worldwide semiconductor sales down 2.2% in February 2006
Japanese semiconductor consumption to grow at 4.8% a year
Advanced TV chips generated $402 mln in 2004
PC graphics market generated $1.49 bln in Q3 2005
Flexible display panels to rise by 83.5% in 2013
Semiconductor market leaders in 2005: Intel, Samsung, TI
DRAM market to fall by 20% in 2007
627 exabytes of flash memory to ship in 2006
Top DRAM vendors in Q3 2005
NAND flash up 30.2% in Q3 2005
2.8 bln DSPs to ship by year-end 2009
DRAM revenues reached $6.5 bln in Q3 2005
Base station RF semiconductor market to reach $4 bln in 2008
Silicon wafer area shipments up 6% in 2005
16- and 32-bit microcontrollers to outsell 8-bit microcontrollers by 100%
DRAM sales in 2005: Samsung - $8.02 bln, Hynix - $4.11 bln, Micron - $3.87 bln
NAND market in 2005: Samsung - 52.9%, Toshiba - 21.9%, Hynix - 12.7%
Semiconductor revenues to grow 5.3% in Singapore and 10.3% in Malaysia
General purpose DSP market down 2% in 2005
Chinese semiconductor assembly and test services to grow 28.4% in 2005
Semiconductor sales to grow by 9% in 2006
Microchip sales up 6.8% in 2005
8% of front-end equipment revenue came from copper tools in 2005
Photoresist revenues to grow 2.1% in 2005
Global chip market to grow by 8% in 2006
AMD had 21.4% of CPU market in Q4 2005
26% of copper front-end equipment tools were purchased by US companies in 2004
In 2004 CMOS image sensors passed CCD sensors
Flash memory demand up 240% in 2005
Stepper market fell 2.6% in 2005
Semiconductor assembly and test services up 12.6% in 2005
Front-end semiconductor equipment market to fall 9.6% in 2005, 3% in 2006
Global semiconductor capex to fall 5% in 2005
IC average selling price to grow in Q1 2006
System on a chip market to grow 80% by 2010
PC CPU shares in Q3 2005: Intel - 80.8%, AMD - 17.8%
Global CVD market to reach $3.27 bln by 2008
90% of semiconductor packaging, assembly and test plants to locate in Asia-Pacific
Semiconductor wafer fab equipment to fall in 2005 and 2006
Semiconductors for automotive industry to generate $16.3 bln in 2005
Global semiconductor market to reach $235 bln in 2005
Global chip equipment sales to fall to $32.95 bln in 2005
High density packaging to grow 32% in 2005
2 bln microphones sold worldwide in 2005, 5% of them MEMS
Global chip sales reached $20.05 bln in October 2005
OLED shipments up 144% in Q3 2005
Webcab VGA CMOS image censor prices to decline 20% in 2006
US companies to get 50% share of front-end wafer processing market in 2005
Average selling price for NAND memory to fall at 43% a year
Small and medium size TFT panel shipments up 21.3% in Q3 2005
Chip market to grow at 7% between 2004 and 2010
Global semiconductor sales to reach $235 bln in 2005
$18.5 bln worth of chips sold in August 2005
Worldwide chip market to grow at 10% a year
Worldwide semiconductor revenues down 2.2% in June 2005
MOSFET market to reach $8.83 bln by 2008
EMEA chip consumption to grow at 3% a year
Retail CPU market share in October 2005: AMD - 49.8%, Intel - 48.5%
Array processing equipment for TFT-LCDs up 34% in 2004
ASIC revenues to reach $76.3 bln in 2005
35% of Chinese hardware designers are working on consumer electronics projects
CPU market shares in Q3 2005: Intel - 80.8%, AMD - 17.8%
Chinese semiconductor market to top $74 bln by 2010
Chip sales reached $58.7 bln in Q3 2005, 9% QTQ growth
Semiconductor chips to grow 6-8% in the second half of 2005
Microcontroller shipments to grow at 10.3% a year
Processor market to grow at 8.3% a year
Foundry wafer demand will grow 10% in 2005
Semiconductor IC package shipments to grow at 3.9% a year
By 2007 61% of flash memory revenues will be NAND
Desktop CPU market shares for September 2005: AMD - 52%, Intel - 46%
Memory chip revenues up 2.4% in 2005
40% of wireless handsets to use RF CMOS by 2009
Global semiconductor sales to reach $232.7 bln in 2005
Chip sales up 1.7% in August 2005
Integrated circuit package shipments to grow at 3.9% a year
Printable electronics to generate $7 bln by 2010
Semiconductor sales up 1.9% in July 2005
Global semiconductor market to grow 4% in 2005
Three-month average of semiconductor sales to grow to $18.11 bln in July 2005
Semiconductor IP to generate $2.04 bln by 2009
Asia-Pacific semiconductor market to reach $116.7 bln in 2005
NAND flash to grow at 18% a year in 2006-2010
Wafer fab equipment revenues down 9.6% in 2005
IC wafer manufacturing capacity at 88.8% in Q2 2005
Communication ships to grow at 11% a year
Semiconductor capex to decline 6.5% in 2005
$18 bln of semiconductors sold in July 2005
Semiconductor capex to decline 6.5% in 2005
Semiconductors to grow 7% in 2005
Global NAND flash market to reach $10.9 bln in 2007
90% of SRAM manufacturers now make Pseudo SRAM
Pure-play foundries to grow 1% in 2005
Semiconductor equipment sales down 36% in July 2005
Semiconductor equipment market up 1.3% in Q2 2005
System-on-a-chip intellectual property to generate $1.5 bln by 2009
Hard disk drive semiconductors generated $3.3 bln in 2004
NOR revenues to drop 15% in 2005
June 2005 semiconductor sales decline to $17.98 bln
Stepper sales to fall 5.2% in 2005
NAND flash market to reach $36.1 bln in 2008 and then collapse in 2009
Photoresist revenues up 17.7% in 2004
Top 10 IC maker revenues up 5.6% in the first half of 2005
Memory market to reach $95.4 bln by 2019, 80% of it could be universal memory
Semiconductor market to grow 15% in 2005
15% more DRAM megabytes shipped in Q2 2005
Stepper market to fall 5.2% in 2005
Global chip sales up 6.5% in the first half of 2005
US to buy 33.5% of world semiconductors in 2005
DRAM revenue to reach $26.5 bln in 2005
EDA revenue down less than 1% in Q1 2005
VDSL chip shipments to reach 40-60 mln by 2009
US-based semicoductor companies to lose market share down to 42% by 2009
Semiconductor equipment market to fall 12.1% in 2005
China’s production of electronic equipment to reach $326.2 bln by 2009
Global semiconductor market to grow 7% in 2005
MPEG video IC revenues reached $3.8 bln in 2004
Semiconductor equipment sales to reach $33.1 bln in 2005
Semiconductor market to grow 15% in 2005
European semiconductor sales reached $3.19 bln in May 2005
Independent memory intellectual property market to generate $410.4 mln in 2009
Semiconductor sales by Chinese foundries to grow 7.8% in 2005
Semiconductor IP market was worth $1.272 bln in 2004
Semiconductor industry to grow 6.1% in 2005, 2.5% in 2006, 10.4% in 2007, 11.6% in 2008
IC sales to total $226 bln in 2005
IC market to reach $226.5 bln in 2005, $238.2 bln in 2006
Global semiconductor sales up 6.8% in April 2005
Wireless semiconductor sales to average $18.53 bln in April 2005
IC market will hit $186.5 bln in revenues in 2005
Chemical mechanical planarization polisher market to drop 9.7% in 2005
Semiconductor manufacturing capacity down to 84.8% in Q1 2005
Mainland china to produce 22 bln integrated circuits worth $45 bln in 2005
NAND flash revenue up 16%, NOR flash revenue down 11% in Q1 2005
Chinese semiconductor equipment market was worth $2.91 bln in 2004
Chip sales forecast: $226 bln in 2005, $246 bln in 2006, $273 bln in 2007, $309 bln in 2008
Wafer shipments down 1.4% in Q1 2005
Semiconductor macro defect detection market to grow 25% in 2005
Embedded microprocessors to grow 6% in 2005
5% of all microphones sold in 2005 will be MEMS microphones
NOR flash market to reach $11 bln in 2006
Pure-play foundry revenues to fall 6.2% in 2005
$3.32 bln of semiconductors sold in Europe in April 2005
Semiconductor equipment market to grow 20.5% in 2007 and 27.0% in 2008
Semiconductor surplus down to $500 mln in Q1 2005
Worldwide memory sales: $28.4 bln in 2002, $33.7 bln in 2003
Semiconductor capex spending to decline 5% in 2005
Dry etch market grew 89% in 2004
Consumer semiconductors brought $14 bln in 2004
Gartner lowers semiconductor manufacturing forecast from 15.3% to 11.6% decline
NAND flash market to reach $18 bln by 2009, of which $12 bln will be flash cards
$18.05 bln of chips sold in February 2005
Chinese semiconductor revenues exceeded $26 bln in 2004
IC sales to grow 6% in 2005
Sales of DSL, cable modem and PON semiconductors to pass $2 bln by 2009
Semiconductor industry up 23.4% in 2004
Taiwanese semiconductor industry to grow 6.7% in 2005
Semiconductor equipment sales to decline 11.6% in 2005
Chip industry to rebound in second half of 2005
Semiconductors to grow 3.6% in 2005, 2.1% in 2006
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales up 64.2% in 2004
Photomask market will grow 4.7% in 2005
TFT LCD glass substrates demand to exceed supply by 8-10%
Semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted 0.78 book-to-bil in February 2005
$5.6 bln of USB flash drives to sell in 2006
Field-configurable standard product market to generate $476.9 mln in 2009
$16.98 bln of semiconductors sold in January 2005
Global semiconductor market will grow 3.4% in 2005
Chip capital spending to grow 2% in 2005
Semiconductor sales to grow 3.4% in 2005
Samsung to lead NAND flash memory market in 2005-2006
AMD’s market share up 16.1% on CPU market in Q4 2004
Chip market to grow 3.5% in 2005
Lithography market to generate $4.8 bln in 2005, stay flat
PCB prices to fall 10% in 2005 due to oversupply
NAND flash prices to fall 56%, NOR flash to fall 42% due to oversupply
$18.3 bln of chips sold in January 2005
50.1% of chips sold in 2004 went into consumer market
Top DSP vendors: Texas Instruments, Freescale, Agere, Analog Devices
1.5 bln square inches of silicon wafers shipped in Q4 2004
Ingrated circuit revenues up 6% in Q1 2005, down 1% in Q2, up 1% in Q3, up 7% in Q4
59% of flash memory sold in 2004 was NOR, 41% - NAND
Semiconductor equipment sales to fall 9.4% in 2005
$18.37 bln of semiconductors sold in December 2004
Global chip sales to grow 2% in 2005
Lab-on-a-chip devices to grow at 31.2% a year
CPU market shares for Q4 2004: Intel - 82.2%, AMD - 16.6%
MRAM to bring $2.1 bln in 2008
Excess chip inventory down 38% in Q4 2004
Integrated circuits to rise 8% in volume, to fall in price
$3 bln of DVD recorder chips will be sold by 2008
Global semiconductor sales to drop 4% in 2005
Semiconductor revenues to decline 5.7% in 2005
Set-top box and digital TV semiconductors to generate $9.3 bln in 2008
DVD semiconductor revenues to decline at 21.4% a year
Semiconductor industry to post a profit of $27.5 bln in 2004
Demand for handset LEDs to grow at 21.9% a year
Semiconductor surplus reaches $1.6 bln in Q3 2004
Top semiconductor sellers in 2004: Intel, Samsung, TI
Semiconductor sales grew 23.4% in 2004
DRAM revenues to grow 56.2% in 2004 and only 1.3% in 2005
Semiconductor equipment market to rise 53.3% in 2004, drop 9.6% in 2005 and drop 5.0% in 2006
30% of all new car warranty issues are microprocessor-related
Semiconductor equipment sales up 39.6%
Integrated circuits to grow 32% in 2004
Chinese semiconductor market grew 21.5-17.7% in 2004
Semiconductor equipment market grew 70% in 2004
iSuppli cuts semiconductor revenue forecast in half
Global semiconductor market to fall 2% in 2005
Capital spending in semiconductor industry to decline 10% in 2005
SEMI reverses 2005 chip sales forecast from 23.98% growth to 5.15% slide
Semiconductor sales up 1.5% in October
Semiconductor production capacity up 8.8% in Q3 2004
Organic integrated circuit fab to cost $30 mln by 2008
$1.44 bln of semiconductors booked in October 2004
Top semiconductor vendors for 2004: Intel, Samsung, TI, Renesas, Infineon
Samsung, Hynix, Micron, Infineon, Elpida top the DRAM sellers list
DRAM sales up 0.2% in Q3 2004, Samsung, Hynix and Micron lead the market
Flash memory market leaders: Samsung, Intel, Toshiba, Spansion
In 2008 China will be world’s largest market for semiconductors
Chinese semiconductor market to grow 20% in 2005
Analog market to generate $31.3 bln in 2004
Microcontroller sales to bring $12.3 bln in 2004
Microprocessor market to bring $30.1 bln in 2004
DSP sales to bring $7.9 bln in 2004
Discrete components to bring $15.9 bln in 2004
Flash sales to bring $15.8 bln in 2004
DRAM sales to generate $26.9 bln in 2004
Semiconductor sales to bring $213.b bln in 2004, $227.2 bln in 2006, $259.4 bln in 2007
Silicon wafer area shipments up 25% in Q3 2004
Semiconductor market to grow 9.6% in 2004
WSTS lowers semiconductor market growth forecast to 1.2% in 2005
$55.2 bln of microchips sold in Q3 2004
Merchant switch fabric market to grow at 45% a year
Semiconductor surplus reaches $1.1 bln in Q3 2004
VLSI Research still claims semiconductor industry will grow 8% in 2005
HP and Dell are top chip buyers in 2004
Semiconductor capital equipment spending to decline 0.6% in 2005
Semiconductor plant spending to reach $45.7 bln in 2004
Book-to-bill IC ratio is down in September
GaAs wafer market to grow at 54% a year
CCD market shares: Sony - 41%, Matsushita - 14.6%, Sharp - 13.8%
Enterprise storage semiconductor market generated $857 mln in 2004
OLED displays to generate $429 mln in 2004
Small-size LCD panel market to grow at 3% a year
Networked media processors to generate $700 mln in 2008
15% of all DRAM sales in Q4 2004 will belong to DDR2
Semiconductor capital and equipment spending to grow 66% in 2004
Electronic design automation revenues up 2% in Q2 2004
Logic intellectual property market set to grow at 14.3%
Less than 2% of embedded CPUs are network-enabled
Demand for TFT LCD to exceed supply in Q4 2004, Q1 2005
Semiconductor orders to fall 20% in Q4 2004
Semidonductor sales up 34.2% in August 2004
Chip sales to grow 25% in 2004 and 7% in 2005
Flash memory revenue to reach $16.6 bln in 2004
USB flash drive sales to reach $4.5 bln in 2006
Semiconductor shipments declined for the first time in 14 months
Multimedia networking to drive networking semiconductor market to $2.3 bln in 2008
Capital spending in the semiconductor industry to grow 51% in 2004
Portsmouth Group expects IC market to grow 37% in 2004, not 44%
Semiconductor demand for automotive industry will grow 22.3% in China
40% of semiconductor vendors will die within the next 10 years
DRAM revenues to rise 56% in 2004
Gallium arsenide circuitboard market to generate $2.9 bln in 2004
Gartner ups semiconductor sales forecast by $5 bln
Semiconductor market growth: iSuppli - 31.4%, SIA - 36.2%
Silicon foundry wafer demand to grow 33% in 2004
Semiconductor revenues to grow 27% this year
Semiconductor bookings increase 128% YTY in July 2004
Q2 CPU marketshares: Intel - 82.7%, AMD - 15.5%
TFT LCD market to generate $7 bln in 2008, $3.7 bln in 2004
Intel, Nvidia, ATI lead the graphic chip market
NOR memory prices will fall 5% this quarter
LCD semiconductor market to reach $6 bln by 2008
Chip-making kits sales to rise 50.9% in 2004, 13.4% in 2005
Semiconductor spending to jump 51% in 2004
May chip sales rose 37% YTY
Asian semiconductor industry to grow 27.4% in 2004
Chip manufacturers overbooked in May
Cameraphone contains $65-75 worth of semiconductors
Chip sales to grow 28.6% in 2004, DRAM to grow 55.8%
TFT-LCD market shares: Samsung - 23.5%, LG - 20.8%, AU Optronics - 13.2%
South Korean IT exports grew 61% in May
Chip-making tools will gain 48% in 2004, 28% in 2005 and -5% in 2006
PC chip sales to grow 18% in 2004
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales grew 10.3% in 2003
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales to grow 40% in 2004
Global semiconductor sales up 31% YTY, 0.2% MTM
Semiconductor sales to grow 20-30% in 2004
Semiconductor equipment maker orders are at 3-year high
Japanese TFT LCD manufacturers expect price hike
Mobile CPU revenues to equal desktop CPU revenues
PC microprocessor sales to be up 18% in 2004
Top semiconductor vendors: Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments
Semiconductor sales up 26.6% in January 2004
Gartner predicts semiconductors will grow 23% in 2004
LCD driver prices to go up 10% in Q2 2004
Chip equipment orders up 66% YTY in January
Chip sales rose 48.8% in December
NPU market to outpace other silicon markets in the next 5 years
Worldwide chip sales grew 18.3% in 2003
Display chips to reach $9.3 bln in 2007
VLSI Research: Chip sales could rise by 33% in 2004
Semiconductors will grow 18% in 2004
Seminconductor market to grow 18% in 2004
Foundry high-voltage process prices up
Secure Digital overtakes CompactFlash market share, CF is still the cheapest
SEMI: Orders for chipmaking equipment up
DRAM market to reach $24.7 bln in 2007
$175 bln of chips will be sold in 2003
Top ten semiconductor vendors
World chip sales rise 23%
Flash memory market forecast
SEMI: Chip equipment sales up
IDC: PC Microprocessor market in Q3 2003
Gartner: Semiconductor sales to rise 20% in 2004
IDC: Intel increased market share
Gartner very bullish on semiconductor industry
IDC: Microprocessor market up 17.7% in Q3 2003
Global chip sales up in Q3 2003
In-Stat/MDR: DSL IC Market Rebounding, Shifting to VDSL
Chip equipment: down in Q2 2003
In-Stat/MDR: CMOS image sensor market to grow
SIA: Semiconductor growth almost best since 1990
Gartner: Chinese chip market
Gartner: NAND sales to reach $2.3B in 2003
Imaging market
iSuppli: DRAM revenue falls, market disappears
July Global Chip Sales Up 2.9 Percent

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