March chip sales
SIA Reports
The United States SemiconductorIndustry Association (SIA) today announced that globalsemiconductor sales in March were $231 billion, an increase of 4.6percent from February when sales were $22.0 billion. Salesincreased by 58.3 percent from March 2009 when sales were $14.6billion. The first quarter of 2009, recession in the global economyis clearly the lowest semiconductor sales.
The first quarter 2010 sales of $69.2 billion compared to$43.7 million for the first quarter of 2009. All figures representmonthly sales 3-month moving average.
Global sales of semiconductors set a new high for the month ofMarch and were second only to the record sales reported in November2007.