Data Bank
07/01/2003
Global semiconductor sales reached $12.1 billion in April 2003, sequentially unchanged from the $12.1 billion in revenue reported in March 2003 and a 9.7 percent increase from the April 2002 revenue of $11.3 billion.
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Sales of digital signal processors used in cell phones fell 9.8 percent during April, as units fell 11.7 percent and Flash memory grew less than 1.0 percent. Among computer chips, microprocessor revenue fell by 1.3 percent this month, while DRAM revenue was off 5.1 percent. Application-specific standard products for wired communications grew 6.0 percent and optoelectronics grew 2.5 percent.
"Sluggish global economic growth and the Chinese SARS outbreak caused a deferral of sales in April to future months," said SIA President George Scalise. "In the U.S., an anticipated corporate PC upgrade cycle has again been pushed back."
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The three-month average of worldwide bookings in April 2003 was $737 million. The bookings figure is 5 percent below the revised March 2003 level of $777 million and 26 percent below the $996 million in orders posted in April 2002.
The three-month average of worldwide billings in April 2003 was $854 million. The billings figure is nominally below the revised March 2003 level of $857 million and 5 percent above the April 2002 billings level of $815 million.