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To: Carl R. who wrote (49549)	10/26/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 53903

Global chip market seen up 18.7 pct in 2000-report TOKYO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Major chip makers expect the global market for semiconductors to expand 18.7 percent from a year earlier to $172.25 billion in calendar 2000, an industry group said on Tuesday. That would compare with 15.6 percent growth in 1999 to $145.16 billion and an 8.4 percent year-on-year fall in 1998 to $125.61 billion, the global industry group World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) said in a report. The WSTS represents 65 leading chipmakers including Fujitsu Ltd , NEC Corp , Matsushita Electric Industrial's unit Matsushita Electronics Corp, Intel Corp (NasdaqNM:INTC - news), Motorola Inc (NYSE:MOT - news), Philips Electronics , Robert Bosch [ROBG.CN], Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Winbond Electronics Corp . It issues market reports twice a year. The report said the favourable prospect is based mainly on factors such as persistance of growth in the world's personal computer market, and continued growth in the peripheral equipment market following demand for large capacity and high speed devices, expansion in markets of digital mobile devices, network-related equipment and car electronics devices. The world's chip market is also expected to grow by 15.6 percent from a year earlier to $199.15 billion in 2001 and 12.2 percent to $223.49 billion in 2002, the report said. As a result, average growth in the period from 1998 till 2002 will be 15.5 percent, it said. In Japan, chip demand, in a yen base, fell 12.8 percent from a year earlier to 3.38 trillion yen in 1998 but will rise 7.3 percent to 3.63 trillion yen in 1999, it said. Japanese chip demand is seen rising 11.1 percent from a year earlier to 4.03 trillion yen in 2000, 12.3 percent to 4.53 trillion yen in 2001 and 10.0 percent to 4.98 trillion yen in 2002, the report said. biz.yahoo.com