According to IHS analysts, in 2013 shipments of processors will increase by 24% compared to 2012 . Such dynamics is due to popularity of smartphones and tablets, sales of which entails the need for components for their production.
So, if in 2012 was sold 1.21 billion processors in 2013 that figure had already reached 1.5 billion pieces. Interestingly, only in the second quarter was 53.5 million shipped processors for tablets, which is 40% more than the same period last year. At the same time solutions for shipments of smartphones increased by 38% to 204.2 million units, but the number of processors for PCs sold dropped from 89.9 million to 84.3 million.
The decline in shipments in the second quarter is most pronounced in the case of desktop solutions - 13% versus the same period last year; solutions for laptops lost only 2%. Interestingly, the number of server processors shipped increased from 4.6 million units to 4.8 million.