04 global semiconductor market increased by 23.4%, Samsung soared nearly 50%

Gartner Japan before the global semiconductor market survey. Survey results show that: in 2004 the global market size grew 23.4% over the previous year, reaching about 218 billion 500 million yen (about RMB 16 billion 800 million). However, since the second half of 2004, the market slowdown. Gartner analysis, the reason lies in the increase in the face of the semiconductor manufacturers, in order to avoid excess production and adjustment.

From different manufacturers point of view, the United States Intel for 13 consecutive years to maintain the first. Since last year, ranked second in South Korea's Samsung Electronics, sales grew by 48.9%, the company's DRAM and flash EEPROM sales growth. In the mobile phone semiconductor market has maintained a good momentum of the United States TI ranked third. The fourth place is Germany's Infineon Technologies, which last year ranked seventh, with sales up by more than $29.7%. Growth rate ranked fifth is Toshiba and Renesas technology. Renesas technology in the flash memory EEPROM and microcontroller, Toshiba in digital cameras and other flash memory and image sensor market has maintained a good momentum.

From different regions, including China, the Asia Pacific market grew by 34.6% over last year, the European market grew by 19.8%, all achieved a high growth