14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that, once again, analysts have taken a close look at what state the semiconductor market is in, and while March results are still to come, SIA established how the month of February turned out.
As its name implies, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is responsible with monitoring the happenings on the global chip market.
Among its habits is to make analyses of varying lengths of each month and quarter and see just where this particular segment of the industry is headed.
As far as the fourth quarter of 2010 goes, it has already been established that things got worse overall, as sales declined after almost two years of continued positive evolution.
Now, SIA published the results it found for the month of February, and it looks like impressions might be mixed, what with the sequential decrease of 1.1%.
Still, compared to the same month of the previous year (2010), all major markets returned a fair bit of growth.
The Americas, for instance, sold 26.6% better, while Europe and Asia also performed 13.3% and 11.8 percent better. Even in Japan chips sold 6.1% better overall.
For those that want exact figures, the analysis of the global semiconductor industry yielded sales of $25.2 billion.
This corresponds to an increase of 13.6%, as last February managed only $22.2 billion.
March is expected to show much lower prices, both on-year and sequentially, because of the far-reaching consequences of the disaster that occurred in Japan on March 11.
While the human costs and ongoing nuclear power plant dangers remain the top priority for authorities, SIA will do its best to establish just how strong an impact there was on the chip supply chain.
“Many of our member companies responded immediately to deliver humanitarian supplies and financial aid to the most impacted areas and continue to provide valuable assistance in the recovery efforts.,” said Brian C. Toohey, president, Semiconductor Industry Association.
“We are continuing to closely monitor potential impacts on the supply chain.”