Nearly 14.7 Billion Square Inches Of Silicon Wafers Are Expected To Be Shipped Globally This Year

According to foreign media reports, although in the second half of the affected by the decline in consumer electronic product demand, the price of this important semiconductor memory chip product demand slid in, memory chip manufacturers inventory of high performance have also been affected, but this year as a whole, the semiconductor market still is expected to maintain growth, early have agency expects the global semiconductor sales of products, Will reach a record $680.6 billion, up 11 percent from a year earlier.

Semiconductor sales are expected to be up a record year on year, which means significant shipments of the basic material, silicon wafers, this year.

For this year, the International Semiconductor Industry Association expects shipments of silicon wafers to reach 14.694 billion square inches, up 677 million square inches from 14.017 billion last year and up 4.8 percent from a year earlier.

According to the International Semiconductor Industry Association's forecast, global silicon wafer shipments this year will grow 4.8% year on year, down from 14.1% last year, but still growing, shipments will hit a new high.