Friday, June 19, 2009
Global chip sales in the first quarter declined to $44.3 billion, down 18.8 percent from $54.5 billion in the fourth quarter, and a decline of 33.8 percent from $66.8 billion in the first quarter of 2008, according to market tracker iSuppli.
Revenue was down 36.2 percent from the start of the present sharp downturn in the third quarter of 2008.
However, looking ahead, the market researchers estimates that the first quarter of 2009 will represent the bottom of the semiconductor market decline and that revenues in the fourth quarter of 2009 will exceed those in the fourth quarter of 2008.
On a sequential basis, revenue will rise by 7.1 percent in the second quarter, by 10.4 percent in the third quarter and by 4.9 percent in the fourth quarter.
"Of the 130+ semiconductor suppliers tracked by iSuppli on a quarterly basis, only six managed to expand their revenue in the first quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2008," said Dale Ford, senior vice president, market intelligence, for iSuppli. "Even among these six suppliers, four increased their revenue by only 1 to 3 percent."
The list is headed by Dialog Semiconductor, the Kirchheim/Teck, Germany-based power management chip specialist, and includes Macronix International, MediaTek, Osram, Telegent Systems and TriQuint Semiconductor.
Meanwhile, iSuppli stresses every region of the world suffered double-digit percentage declines in semiconductor revenue in the first quarter compared to the fourth.
"Although the first quarter is typically weak for the global semiconductor industry, the sharp declines in semiconductor during that period and in the fourth quarter of 2008 reflect the impact of the global economic downturn on the worldwide chip business," Ford said.
By: DocMemory
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