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To: StanX Long who wrote (14081)	3/17/2004 10:29:09 PM
From: StanX Long	Respond to of 95647

Fabless chip sales grew 16% in 2003, says FSA Silicon Strategies 03/17/2004, 2:15 PM ET SAN JOSE, Calif.--The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) said worldwide public fabless revenue grew 16.2 percent in calendar year 2003, totaling $24.2 billion. U.S. fabless companies represented 78 percent of 2003 total fabless revenue, followed by Taiwan, which contributed 18 percent. Europe and Japan each represented two percent, and sales in China and Canada each totaled 0.4 percent. The FSA also reported that fabless chip sales for the fourth quarter of 2003 were $7.8 billion, a 23.4 percent growth over Q4 2002, and a 13.8 percent sequential growth. Fabless revenue represented 16.6 percent of total semiconductor industry sales. Worldwide fabless market capitalization reached $133.8 billion, with 21 percent of all companies having market caps greater than $1.0 billion.