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To: robert b furman who wrote (15489)	6/1/2004 4:20:02 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom	Respond to of 95632

June, 2004 semichips.org Global Semiconductor Sales Up 36.6% Year-over-Year -Chip sales highest since July 2000- SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 1, 2004– San Jose, Calif., – June 1, 2004 – Worldwide sales of semiconductors rose to $16.94 billion in April, a sequential increase of 4.1 percent from the $16.28 billion reported in March and a 36.6 percent increase from April 2003, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported today. The SIA noted that April is traditionally a strong month for semiconductor sales. “Worldwide semiconductor sales in April reached the highest monthly level since July 2000,” stated SIA President George Scalise. “Continued strong overall economic growth in the United States and China helped propel chip sales upward. The fundamentals are in place for strong growth through the remainder of the year, and it is likely that growth for 2004 will significantly surpass last fall’s forecast of 19 percent growth.” Strong sales of cell phones were a major contributor to increased chip sales, especially for digital signal processors (DSPs) which were up by 6.8 percent, application-specific standard products (ASSPs) for wireless which grew by 8.8 percent, and flash memory devices which rose by 3.2 percent. Personal computer sales growth coupled with increasing memory content in each system helped to drive strong month-to-month growth of 10.3 percent in sales of dynamic random-access memories (DRAMs). Sales of image-sensing devices grew 7.6 percent sequentially on strong sales of digital still cameras and camera phones. Semiconductor sales were up sequentially in all geographic regions, with Asia-Pacific showing very strong growth of 6.6 percent over the immediate-prior month.>>