Chip sale in Europe grows fast
According to an interim report of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is the world-wide chip sale in August come out on 13.4 billion dollar. That is 12.5 per cent higher than a year earlier. In Europe, the sale came from on 2.56 billion dollar, a growth of 15.6 per cent.
Pc-related products, as micro processors and nag-chips, sold in August the best. This will declared can become according to the SIA for a part by the start of the new school year.
Further alley the chip sale on the consumers market through the growing question to dvd-players and digital cameras. Through the popularity of thread lynx devices in Azi, grew that the question to chips it most fast.
Only in the month August, the chip sale grew in Europe with 3.8 per cent, in Japan with 1.6 per cent and Azi with 6.4 per cent. America follows with 2.5 per cent. These figures show according to the Sia the largest growth since 1990, at least as the `dotcom' -year 2000 outside consideration are let.