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To: matt dillabough who wrote (10086)	6/3/2004 9:13:32 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

April's 'raw' chip sales show 40% growth y-on-y By Peter Clarke Silicon Strategies 06/03/2004, 8:30 AM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The 'actual' worldwide chip sales in April 2004 were $15.82 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), more than a billion dollars below the $16.94 billion three-month average announced by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) on Tuesday (June 1). Despite a sequential drop from the raw March 2004 sales figure of $19.23 billion, the April result was the highest ever recorded in the industry and worldwide semiconductor sales in April 2004 were 40.7 percent ahead of sales in April 2003. Chip sales in the first four months of 2004 were $64.64 billion, up 34.3 percent on a year before. The 40.7 percent year-on-year growth for April 2004 bounced up strongly from the 31.5 percent growth recorded in March 2004 and eclipsed the 39.2 percentage y-on-y sales growth recorded in February. Sales were driven by Asia-Pacific region -- as they have been all year -- with growth of 55.7 percent compared with April 2003, whereas Japan the Americas and European regions, all scored year-on-year increases of about 30 percent. The SIA and other regional industry groups publicize WSTS sales as the three-month moving averages of monthly sales activity rather than the actual numbers. The SIA calculates averages to smooth variations due to companies' sales reporting calendars, which often make March, June, September and December five-week months thereby inflating those month's numbers. The Asia Pacific region's 'actual' sales of $6.65 billion in April 2004 were 55.7 percent ahead of sales of $4.27 billion in April 2003. Japan's quiet March had contributed to a dropped growth rate in that month but in April 2004 Japan recorded $3.57 billion of sales, up 32.2 percent from a year before. The Americas region continued its recent run of form with 31.3 percent growth to $2.81 billion overtaking Europe, which recorded April sales of $2.80 billion, up 29.6 percent from April 2003.