Worldwide Semiconductor June Sales Rose 13.6% To $11.22B
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Semiconductor Industry Association said worldwide semiconductors sales in June rose 13.6% to $11.22 billion from a year ago.
In a press release Thursday, the association said Japanese and Asia Pacific markets led the upturn, with Japan semiconductor sales up 20% to $2.46 billion from $2.29 billion a year ago. Asia Pacific semiconductor sales for the month rose 22.7% to $2.77 billion from $2.26 billion a year ago.
In other regions, June semiconductor sales also rose on a year-to-year basis. U.S. sales rose 11.8% to $3.65 billion from $3.26 billion a year ago and European sales rose 1.5% to $2.32 billion from $2.29 billion a year ago.
On a sequential basis, June semiconductor sales rose 0.2% in the Americas, 0.3% in Japan, and 0.1% in Asia Pacific. European semiconductor sales, hurt by currency depreciation, fell 3.7% in June from May.
Semiconductor product lines, such as flash memory and digital signal processing, generally used for communication applications such as cellular phones, are showing strong increases, the association said.
PC unit sales have remained strong, driving demand for microprocessors and memory products.
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