On the global hegemony by IC factory Samsung de shake instrument leapt to the forefront

According to the website Semiconductor Reporter reported, although the Japanese semiconductor manufacturers still continue to dominate the global consumer electronics market in 2004 IC the vast majority of the market share, however, South Korea's Samsung Electronics (Samsung) and American Texas Instruments (TI) respectively by LCD and digital light processing device driver IC (Digital Light Processing; DLP IC) sales finance from 2003, the world's top 10 list, 2004 respectively in the global consumer electronics market IC fifth and seventh, the annual growth rate of sales are more than 65%, a Japanese hegemony of shake.

ISuppli Institute report shows, given the steady growth of the global economy, and many consumer electronic products have adopted the price war to attract consumers, consumers in the full case, 2004 is undoubtedly good for consumer electronics market in the winter, the estimated global sales volume reached US $248 billion 300 million, thus driving the consumer electronics market IC the growth of nearly 30%, to $45 billion 950 million.

Analysts pointed out that the Japanese Toshiba (Toshiba), Sony (SONY) and Panasonic (Matsushita) is still ranked the world's 3 largest consumer electronics supplier IC, market share were 12.2%, 8.8% and 5.8%, plus fourth of the Renesas (Renesas), the top 4 suppliers of the sales annual growth rate in the 20 to 30% range, but, surprisingly, in 2003 tenth of the sales in South Korea SamSung, annual growth rate of more than 70% of the strength, get into the 2004 the world's fifth largest consumer electronics supplier location IC.

In addition, sales success in the DLP chip projection TV communication chip leading German instrument, not only opened up a new revenue source for de inject instrument, a symbol of German consumer electronics market instrument breakthrough success, in addition, the main products of Texas Instruments digital signal processor (DSP), also used in digital camera and MP3 player, consumer electronics sales in 2004 IC Ti increased 65%, to $1 billion 685 million.