John Neuffer, president and chief executive officer of SIA, said the global semiconductor market has continued to expand substantially in October with sales reaching a one-month high and surpassing $ 400 billion this year. The market continues to grow, partly due to the buoyant demand for memory, but the combined sales of other semiconductors There is also considerable improvement, strong buy-through across all categories.
Compared with the same month of last year, sales in the Americas increased by 40.9%, Europe increased by 19.5%, China increased by 19.1%, Asia Pacific and other regions increased by 16.3% and Japan increased by 10.7% 2.6% in Europe, 1.8% in Japan and 1.5% in Asia Pacific / other regions.
Recently, the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics Association (WSTS) also released a report shows that in 2017 the world semiconductor market size of 406.691 billion US dollars, an increase of 20.6%, the first break 400 billion US dollars mark, hit a seven-year (in 2010 an increase of 31.8 %) Of the new high.