The SIA and other regional industry groups publicize sales statistics gathered by World Semiconductor Trade Statistics as three-month averages of monthly sales activity to smooth out variations caused by companies’ monthly financial calendars, which tend to inflate March, June, September and December sales figures.
(September 3, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—The Working Group of the International Statistics on Vacuum Technology (ISVT) announced that global vacuum components and equipment sub-systems sales totaled $2.6 billion in 2003. The largest vacuum component market segment is semiconductor process vacuum with 38 percent, followed by industrial vacuum at 12 percent, process vacuum at 12 percent, instrumentation manufacturers at 11 percent and thin-film deposition (non-semiconductor) vacuum at 10 percent.