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To: stockaholic who wrote ()	4/25/1998 8:32:00 AM
From: stockaholic	Read Replies (2) of 105

Some background information on the trends in 1997. Last year the turn around began in May,'97 when sales exceeded May 1996 sales by $167 million. The trend continued in June 1997 and surpassed June 1996 sales by $807 million. The most dramatic year-to-year change occurred in the Americas market,which experienced a 19.4 percent increase in sales from July 1996 to July 1997.(I am focusing on sales in the Americas, but Global semiconductor sales which exceeded $11.61 billion in July, a 13.3 percent increase over the July 1996 sales mark of$10.24 billion will also be mentioned). Sales in the Americas market were $3.845 billion in July 1997, compared to $3.220 billion in July 1996. Sales in the Asia-Pacific market hit $2.531 billion in July 1997, a 16.1 percent increase over sales in July 1996.On a year-to-year basis, sales also jumped in Europe, increasing by 12.4 percent from $2.043 billion in July 1996 to $2.297 billion in July 1997. On a month-to-month comparison, global chip sales rose 1.8 percent inJuly 1997 -- a $202 million increase -- from June 1997. The largest increase surfaced in Japan, where sales grew 6.4 percent from $2.761 billion inJune 1997 to $2.937 billion in July 1997. Sales in the Americas market increased to $3.845 billion, a 0.2 percent increase over June 1997 sales. * global sales numbers represent a three-month rolling average of actual sales in the world's major chip markets. Data for "the Global Sales Report" was compiled by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics- semichips.org.

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