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Industry Trends Highlights 2002 p1 of 12:

• IPC releases book-to-bill ratio for November 2002
  DECEMBER 30--IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Northbrook, IL; www.ipc.org) has announced the findings from its monthly Statistical Program.
• Pace of new 1394/FireWire product introductions continues in fourth quarter
  DECEMBER 20--"The pace of introductions of 1394-equipped consumer and computer products has continued strong throughout 2002," said James Snider, executive director of the 1394 Trade Association.
• Industry applauds National Science Foundation doubling budget
  DECEMBER 19--The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA; San Jose, CA; www.sia-online.org) has lauded President Bush's signing of a bill to double the US National Science Foundation (NSF) budget by 2007.
• Semiconductor equipment spending returns to positive growth in 2003
  DECEMBER 19--After two years of negative results, worldwide semiconductor capital spending and wafer-fab-equipment spending will return to double-digit growth in 2003, and the worldwide semiconductor packaging and assembly segment of the industry is also poised for growth, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc. (San Jose, CA; www.gartner.com/semiconductor-mkt).
• Printed-circuit-board industry won't surpass past highs before 2004
  DECEMBER 17--The printed-circuit-board market reached a bottom in 2001, with worldwide sales expected to increase slightly in 2002.
• Preliminary statistics show semiconductor market to increase slightly in 2002
  DECEMBER 16--The worldwide semiconductor industry returned to positive growth in 2002, with revenue totaling $155.4 billion in 2002, a 1.4% increase from 2001, according to preliminary statistics by Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc. (San Jose, CA; www.gartner.com/semiconductor-mkt).
• German automation fair attracts higher attendance
  DECEMBER 16--The SPS/IPC/Drives trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, injected hope into a market that has been hit hard by the region's recent economic woes.
• European adoption of large LCD monitors ramps up
  DECEMBER 9--The popularity of large LCD monitors with European users is well ahead of expectations, according to the latest data from Meko's DisplayCast market research service (www.meko.co.uk).
• Equipment B to B drops to 0.86
  DECEMBER 9--The VLSI Research Inc. October Industry Pulse Pro showed that front-end capacity utilization totaled 84.4%, down from September's revised 85.6%.
• Global chip sales up 1.8% in October
  DECEMBER 2--Global semiconductor sales reached $12.5 billion in October 2002, a 1.8% sequential increase from the $12.3 billion in revenue reported in September and a 20% increase from the $10.4 billion total recorded in October 2001, reported the Semiconductor Industry Association (www.sia-online.org).

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