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Global
semiconductor industry posted sales totaling $412.2 billion in 2017,
the industry’s highest-ever annual sales and an increase of 21.6 percent
compared to the 2016 total. Global sales for the month of December 2017
reached $38.0 billion, an increase of 22.5 percent over the December
2016 total and 0.8 percent more than the previous month’s total.
Fourth-quarter sales of $114.0 billion were 22.5 percent higher than the
total from the fourth quarter of 2016 and 5.7 percent more than the
third quarter of 2017. Global sales during the fourth quarter of 2017
and during December 2017 were the industry’s highest-ever quarterly and
monthly sales, respectively.
Several semiconductor product segments stood out in 2017. Memory was the largest semiconductor category by
sales with $124.0 billion in 2017, and the fastest growing, with sales
increasing 61.5 percent. Within the memory category, sales of DRAM
products increased 76.8 percent and sales of NAND flash products
increased 47.5 percent. Logic ($102.2 billion) and micro-ICs ($63.9
billion) – a category that includes microprocessors – rounded out the
top three product categories in terms of total sales. Other fast-growing
product categories in 2017 included rectifiers (18.3 percent), diodes
(16.4 percent), and sensors and actuators (16.2 percent). Even without
sales of memory products, sales of all other products combined increased
by nearly 10 percent in 2017.
Annual
sales increased substantially across all regions: the Americas (35.0
percent), China (22.2 percent), Europe (17.1 percent), Asia Pacific/All
Other (16.4 percent), and Japan (13.3 percent). The Americas market also
led the way in growth for the month of December 2017, with sales up
41.4 percent year-to-year and 2.1 percent month-to-month. Next were
Europe (20.2 percent/-1.6 percent), China (18.1 percent/1.0 percent),
Asia Pacific/All Other (17.4 percent/0.2 percent), and Japan (14.0
percent/0.9 percent).
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