Dataquest sees slow silicon wafer market; downturn changes vendor rankings
Semiconductor Business News
(06/03/02 15:07 p.m. EST)
siliconstrategies.com
TOKYO -- The worldwide blank silicon wafer market is expected to rebound after a horrific year in 2001, but the business is not projected to grow as fast as vendors would like in 2002, according to a new report from Dataquest Inc. here today.
Worldwide silicon wafer revenues totaled $5.4 billion in 2001, a 31% decline from $7.8 billion in 2000, according to Dataquest, based in San Jose.
"Clearly, 2001 was a severe year for the silicon wafer industry. Such a dreary double-digit decline in million square inches (MSIs) demand had not been seen since 1985," said Takashi Ogawa, who tracks the market for Dataquest.
"At the same time, however, the year marked the burgeoning of the 300-mm wafer market, which showed significant presence for the first time,” he said. “In fact, if it weren't for commercial shipments of the premium price product, the entire wafer market would have sunk more deeply due to the across-the-board declines in demand and price for standard products." |
