All Semiconductors stats

• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• SIA: Semiconductor growth almost best since 1990
• Gartner: Chinese chip market
• Gartner: NAND sales to reach $2.3B in 2003
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