Gartner: 2009 global semiconductor revenue dropped 29 billion U.S. dollars

According to the global technology research and advisory firm
Gartner's preliminary estimates for 2009 global semiconductor revenue
of 2,260 billion U.S. dollars, down 11.4% compared with 2008, which
will be the industry over the past 25 years through the sixth decline
in revenue.

Stephan Ohr, research director at Gartner Semiconductor, said: "the
first quarter of 2009, a sharp decline in semiconductor revenue, which
continued to deteriorate from the beginning of the fourth quarter of
2008. While the 2009 first quarter revenues were slightly higher, then
led to the subsequent significant year on year growth. "

However, for the semiconductor industry, 2009 is still a dot-com
bubble burst since 2001 has been one of the worst years of income. In
the fourth quarter of 2008, global economic recession has led to the
time when the global semiconductor revenue dropped 5.4%.

Next, Stephan Ohr says: "As the market recovers from recession in
2010, semiconductor vendors will need to track end-user consumption
patterns so that the demand is proven interrupted, or whether there
are beyond the capacity of the additional demand. Not all of the
semiconductor Manufacturers of recession and recovery are the same
feelings. personal computer market is the first rebound of the market,
followed by such as mobile phones, cars and other consumer sentiment
that reflects some of the market rebound. business spending recession
impact on our economic recovery is still is very slow. "

Some semiconductor manufacturers have experienced a recession than
some other semiconductor manufacturers have experienced worse. For
example, the first Japanese semiconductor manufacturers have suffered
a heavy blow to the global economic recession, order reduction;
followed by the yen's appreciation against, making Japanese products
than the United States and European products more expensive.

Despite the revenue decline, Intel's revenue for 18 consecutive years,
the first reelected. In 2009, the company's market share increased to
14.2%.

Table 1: Global semiconductor revenue forecast for the top ten ranking
(in millions of U.S. dollars)

Source: Gartner (2009 Nian 12 months)

In 2009, the top ten semiconductor manufacturers, only three achieved
a revenue growth. In which Samsung and Hynix (Hynix) two memory
manufacturers, revenue growth was mainly due to the long-awaited
memory prices higher. Qualcomm's cellular baseband processor by
capturing market share, revenue increased slightly. Ranked in the top
ten vendors outside the top 25 within Taiwan MediaTek because of its
non-brand handset makers in China in a strong position, revenue growth
of 21.4%. The company is a top 25 semiconductor suppliers displayed
only a double-digit growth companies.

While in the top ten semiconductor manufacturers have seven declining
revenue, of which four more experienced double-digit revenue decline.
The memory business unit Qimonda's losses and the sale of Infineon's
wireline communications services led to decreased drastically 46.5%.
If the income from Infineon in 2008 minus the wired part of the
revenue in order to make the same comparison and 2009, then the
Infineon income fell only 27.2%.

Memory area in 2009 because of its situation that has arisen in other
areas the opposite happened, and therefore worthy of attention. The
memory market has experienced in 2007 and 2008, after years of
declining revenue, saw the revival. In previous years, DRAM makers cut
capital spending, supply rejection effectively enhance the price.
Early in 2009, NAND flash memory shortage; Subsequently, in the second
quarter of 2009, the end of, DRAM price spiral. However, Qimonda's
bankruptcy and some weaker companies close to collapse in Taiwan DRAM
makers means that the majority of the cost of these companies be able
to regain market share, and even increase in the income. Overall, the
memory revenue decline in 2009, but significantly higher than the
entire semiconductor industry, a smaller decline.