Worldwide sales of semiconductors increased to $19.6 billion in September, an increase of 5.2 percent from $18.6 billion reported in August, the San Jose-based Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported.

Global chip sales increased by 5.6 percent from $18.5 billion reported for September 2004. Q3 sales of $58.7 billion were up by 8.9 percent from $55.6 billion in Q2. Semiconductor sales for the first nine months of the year totaled $167.6 billion, an increase of 6.1 percent from the first nine months of 2004.

“Global semiconductor sales were very strong in September despite earlier concerns that rising energy prices and declining consumer confidence would impact sales of electronic products,” said SIA president George Scalise, in a statement.

“Sales of consumer electronics continued to be strong during the period. With industry sales for the first three quarters of 2005 running more than 6 percent ahead of the record sales of 2004, the industry remains on pace to achieve sales of $226 billion this year,” Scalise concluded.

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