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Chip sales hit record $15 billion in March, driven by flash, PLDs, DSPs

Semiconductor Business News
(05/09/00, 09:19:10 AM EDT)
http://www.semibiznews.com/story/OEG2000...

SAN JOSE--Worldwide chip sales climbed to a record high $14.96 billion in March, a 33.8% increase from $11.18 billion in the month last year and 2.8% higher than $14.56 billion in February, said the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) here today.

The SIA's monthly sales report shows the most dramatic sale increases being in flash memories (up 197.5% in the first quarter of 2000 from last year. Programmable logic revenues were up 77.8%, digital signal processors (DSPs) rose 52.8%, "application specific MOS logic up 59.5%, and DRAM grew 33.4% in the first three month of 2000 compared to Q1 of 1999, according to the SIA, which did not initially release sales figures for those chip segments.

"The strong sales in the first quarter put the industry on course for another record sales year," declared George Scalise, president of the SIA. "Product sectors, in addition to microprocessors and DRAMs used in PC's, that played a major role in the March sales include flash, digital signal processors, programmable logic and standard cell. These semiconductor products can be found in many consumer goods including cellular applications, automobiles and home appliances."

Using a three-month moving average, the SIA global sales report said chip sales in the Asia-Pacific region grew 46.1% in March to $3.81 billion compared to $2.61 billion in the same month last year. Japan's semiconductor sales jumped 38.4% (in dollar revenues) to $3.35 billion vs. $2.42 billion in March 1999, said the trade group.

Chip sales in the Americas grew 25.1% to $4.53 billion in March compared to $3.62 billion in the month last year, and European semiconductor revenues were up 29.2% to $3.27 billion vs. $2.53 billion in March 1999, according to the SIA's monthly report.

Note - These growth numbers are dollar figures!

-- posted by Kirk