“Strong holiday season sales of consumer products such as cell phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players drove record sales of semiconductors in November,” says George Scalise, SIA president. “Sales of flash memory devices &#8212 a key component in many handheld consumer products &#8212 were up by 33% from November 2004. Sales of application-specific standard circuits, another proxy for consumer products, were up by nearly 34% year-on-year.”

(January 3, 2006) San Jose, CA &#8212 On a 3-month average basis, semiconductor equipment manufacturers based in North America posted $1.09 billion in orders in November 2005 and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.92, according to SEMI’s November 2005 Book-to-Bill Report.