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>>>April Chip Sales Reach $11.07 Billion for Worldwide Semiconductor Industry
-April Sales led by Wireless Sector -
SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 31, 2002– Worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled $11.07 billion in April, a 3.1% increase from the $10.73 billion level reached in March, with all four geographic regions reporting growth for the second month in a row.
“Semiconductor sales in April are continuing the steady growth exhibited in the first quarter of this year, another sign that the industry is rebounding from 2001.
We expect the modest growth we are experiencing in the first half of the year to continue throughout the remainder of 2002.” stated George Scalise, SIA president. He added, “April’s growth was led by an increase in sales in the wireless sector.”
The SIA’s Global Sales Report (GSR) is a three-month moving average of sales activity. The GSR is tabulated by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization, which represents approximately 66 companies. The moving average is a mathematical smoothing technique that mitigates variations due to companies’ monthly financial calendars.
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About the SIA
The SIA is the leading voice for the semiconductor industry and has represented U.S.-based manufacturers since 1977. SIA member companies comprise more than 90% of U.S.-based semiconductor production. Collectively, the chip industry employs a domestic workforce of 284,000 people. More information about the SIA can be found at www.sia-online.org.<<<
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Computer-Chip Sales Decline Slows to 19.4% in April (Update1)
By Hiroshi Suzuki
Tokyo, May 31 (Bloomberg) -- Worldwide computer-chip sales fell 19.4 percent in April, the smallest decline since June of last year, signaling demand is recovering from the industry's worst year in 2001, an industry group said.
Sales fell to $11.07 billion, compared with $13.74 billion in April 2001 and rose 3.1 percent from $10.73 billion in March, the San Jose, California-based Semiconductor Industry Association said in a release distributed by e-mail.
The sequential rise marked the second month in a row that global chip sales have gained compared with the previous month. The gains, boosted by higher chip sales for wireless equipment, were seen in Japan, the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, the group said.
``Semiconductor sales in April are continuing the steady growth exhibited in the first quarter of this year, another sign that the industry is rebounding from 2001,'' SIA President George Scalise said in the statement. ``We expect the modest growth we are experiencing in the first half of the year to continue throughout the remainder of 2002.''
Reflecting the revival in sales, global orders for chipmaking equipment made in Japan rose 20 percent to 84.9 billion yen ($680 million) in April, the second consecutive monthly rise after 14 straight months of decline, the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan said yesterday. Orders turn into sales in about six months.
Hitachi Ltd., Japan's third-largest chipmaker, said it plans to resume chip production at a plant west of Tokyo to meet an anticipated recovery in global demand for semiconductors. Hitachi plans to make 9 million chips for use in personal computers in the period April to September, up from 6.5 million chips made in the previous six months.
While sales in Japan fell 34.5 percent from a year ago, they declined by 30.5 percent in the Americas and by 25.8 percent in Europe, the group said.<<<
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>>>KDDI Shares Rise as Investors Bet Company Is Adding New Users
By Ian Messer
Tokyo, May 31 (Bloomberg) -- KDDI Corp. shares rose as much as 7.9 percent as investors bet Japan's second-largest mobile- phone company is signing on new subscribers at a faster pace after starting faster wireless Web services last month, an analyst said.
``We are expecting continued better results in terms of net subscriber growth,'' said Hitoshi Hayakawa, an analyst at ING Baring Securities (Japan) Ltd. who has a ``buy'' rating on KDDI stock. At a meeting with KDDI earlier this week, company officials told Hayakawa that au Corp., the company's main mobile-phone unit, added more than 100,000 new users this month, he said.
KDDI shares rose as much as 33,000 yen to 453,000 yen in morning trade. They are the fourth-most actively traded shares on Japan's stock exchanges so far with 10.1 billion yen ($82 million) of stock changing hands.
Tokyo-based KDDI expects its new CDMA2000 1X high-speed wireless Internet service, which allows users to download games and movie-clips at more than twice the speed of its older services, will help it win market share from rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Vodafone Group Plc's J-Phone Co.
KDDI attracted 334,100 subscribers in the first month of its new service. Yesterday, KDDI said it will expand the area where such services are offered next month to include the southern island of Okinawa and areas of northern Japan.<<< |
