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Industry Trends Highlights 2002 p12 of 12:

• Infineon sees global semiconductor market growing 4% in FY2002
  JANUARY 28--German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG (Munich; www.infineon.com) expects the worldwide semiconductor market to grow 4% to $146 billion in 2002.
• 1394 Trade Association to hold Developers' Conference
  JANUARY 25--The 1394 Trade Association (Dallas, TX) will hold its annual Developers' Conference June 25--27 at Microsoft Corporation headquarters in Redmond, WA.
• Early upturn in second-quarter 2002
  JANUARY 21--Despite worldwide employment losses in the semiconductor industry, new economic data may suggest an upturn in the industry during the second quarter of 2002, according to Industrial Information Resources Inc.
• IC sales, orders up in December
  JANUARY 21--Both worldwide IC sales and orders rose from November to December, bringing the IC book-to-bill ratio up along with them.
• Fiberoptic-component assembly and test-equipment consumption to reach $1.71 billion
  JANUARY 15--According to a report from ElectroniCast (San Mateo, CA; www.electronicast.com) the global consumption of fiberoptic-component-assembly equipment plus related test units will advance impressively.
• The MathWorks to sponsor image-processing seminars
  JANUARY 14--The MathWorks Inc. will host a series of advanced image-processing seminars in February and March.
• Gartner Dataquest says 2002 marks the beginning of the road to recovery
  JANUARY 9--As the overall semiconductor market suffered the worst decline in its history in 2001, the worldwide semiconductor capital-spending and equipment markets revenue declined by 29% and 37%, respectively, according to preliminary statistics by Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc. (San Jose, CA; www.gartner.com).
• SIA reports $10.6 billion in worldwide sales for November
  JANUARY 7--Worldwide sales of semiconductors in November rose to $10.60 billion, a month-to-month increase of 1.6% from $10.44 billion in October, making this the second month in a row with sequential growth, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA; San Jose, CA; www.sia-online.org ).
• New IPC chairman begins tenure
  JANUARY 4--IPC--Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Northbrook, IL) has chosen Stan Plzak, executive vice president of SMTC Corporation, as its new chairman of the board.

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