The current year will be one of the toughest for the semiconductor market. In the beginning, there were hopes that the high-tech segment almost gives way, down to 2011, the margin of error - 0.1%. Only the second half of the year has made these adjustments,, analysts at IHS iSuppli increased the expected reduction in annual volumes of semiconductor market by 1.7%, and yesterday did it again, reducing the amount of estimated revenues for the year amounts to $ 303 billion, corresponds to an annual reduction by 2.3%.
Previous year's decline was recorded in 2009. This year was the peak of the crisis . The main attack was aimed at Europe and China. In the next two years, the market has developed primarily through the Asia-Pacific region. But now China has matured a number of problems that have slowed its growth, while Europe, Japan and the United States continue to reduce the volume of semiconductors purchases.
According to IHS iSuppli report, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) reduce purchases of components for electronics by 9.3%, Japan - 4.7%, USA - 4.6%, and only Asia-Pacific region will show modest annual growth of 0.3%.
Speaking in detail, the fall in demand for semiconductors will be observed in five of the six key areas, including computers. Latest annual reduction of market for computers was already 11 years ago!
But in this case Tablets and smartphones boosted interest in wireless communications. Wireless market was the only one that shows the annual growth, which is quite impressive - at 7.7%. Among the components of the annual growth demonstrate CMOS sensor, LED lighting and logic . For each of these areas will increase, respectively, 31.8%, 17.5% and 5.6% .
The cumulative decline in sales of DRAM and NAND-flash will be at 10.7%. The decline in sales of flash memory part was a surprise. Apparently, the producers are afraid to get into a situation of overproduction, in which they found themselves in the DRAM market .
Fortunately, in the fourth quarter there were some signals that by the middle of next year on the semiconductor market can return to a steady annual growth. The annual volume of the market for the last three months of 2012 could grow by 1.9%. Related Products :
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