China Is Chip Market's Only Growth Region

By Peter Clarke, EETimes, LONDON, Jan. 05, 2016 – 

The three-month average of global chip sales for November 2015 declined by 3.0 percent compared with the figure for the same month a year before, according to numbers from World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) as reported by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

Regionally the all the regions showed year-on-year decreases of sales with the exception of China (growth of 5.3 percent). Japan and Europe continue to be the poorest performing regions, partly due to currency exchange rate weakness.

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