Asia Pacific mobile phone sales to promote the steady growth of the semiconductor market

Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) released the latest research report, driven by strong demand in the Asia Pacific region, mobile phone and other consumer electronics before 2009, global semiconductor sales will be at a steady rate of growth of 9%, sales revenue will reach $321 billion. Global semiconductor sales revenue was $227 billion 500 million last year.

The report said that the future of semiconductor demand will change, will shift from expensive desktop and notebook computers to low-cost consumer electronics and mobile phones. Although the computer is still the biggest supplier of semiconductors. But its growth rate is only 10%.

The semiconductor industry association is expected to show that computer and chip manufacturing complaints are justified. In the third quarter of this year, DELL and Intel's weak sales performance, did not achieve their revenue targets.

In contrast, other departments demand for semiconductors is growing rapidly, which is the second largest mobile phone semiconductor market, global mobile phone shipments this year is 20% higher than last year, the future annual shipments will reach one billion. Other smaller sectors are growing faster, such as digital TV has grown by 56%. MP3 player grew by 35%, digital camera grew by 11%.

The semiconductor industry association president George Scalise said at a news conference: "traditional consumer electronics products, such as digital TV, MP3 players and digital cameras for the entire semiconductor consumption of 20%, mobile phone market demand for semiconductors accounted for another 20%." The report said that consumers in the Asia Pacific region will buy more consumer electronics products in life, by 2009, will account for 48.2% of global semiconductor sales.

Consumers prefer the more advanced features of the product, and further promote the popularization and application of advanced technologies in the consumer electronics industry, computer manufacturers to increase the quality of the game console voice and image. Mobile phone manufacturers of products is change rapidly function, music, photography, watch TV, color and global positioning system in the mobile phone It is often seen.

The semiconductor industry association said in the report, in the nine types of semiconductor industry in 200 years, to the market is the largest metal oxide semiconductor logic chip, revenue will reach $78 billion 800 million; followed by the simulation of power management chip, revenue of $48 billion 600 million. DRAM storage chip revenue of $44 billion 200 million, computer microprocessor revenue of $41 billion 900 million. Smaller types include flash memory chips, optical chips, transistors, microcontrollers and digital signal processors.