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Industry Trends Highlights 2002 p5 of 12:

• European semiconductor sales continue to rise in July
  SEPTEMBER 6--European semiconductor sales grew slightly in July, according to the latest statistics from World Semiconductor Trade Statistics and the European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association.
• Semico lowers 2002 chip forecast to 6%
  SEPTEMBER 5--Phoenix-based market-research firm Semico Research Corp. (www.semico.com) has lowered its overall semiconductor forecast for 2002, but noted that the market will rebound and recover in 2003 and 2004.
• Image-sensor market defies tech downturn
  SEPTEMBER 4--Managing to avoid the pitfalls of other portions of the technology sector, the market for image sensors has continued to grow in the past year, according to In-Stat/MDR (Scottsdale, AZ; www.instat.com).
• IPC releases book-to-bill ratio
  AUGUST 27--IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Northbrook, IL) has announced the findings from its monthly Statistical Program.
• North American book-to-bill ratio drops to 1.16
  AUGUST 26--North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.15 billion in orders in July 2002 and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.16, according to the July 2002 Express Report published by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (www.semi.org).
• Chip sales down in June
  AUGUST 12--Global chip sales dropped 0.2% to $11.35 billion in June, according to the latest report released by the Semiconductor Industry Association (San Jose, CA.; www.semichips.org).
• DSPs eke out scant growth
  AUGUST 1--With telecom titans falling all around us, there is a much smaller population of healthy operators to buy equipment, which has had a dramatic effect on the digital-signal-processing (DSP) market, according to Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts (Tempe, AZ; www.forwardconcepts.com).
• June book-to-bill ratio shows seven months of bookings growth
  JULY 29--North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.16 billion in orders in June 2002 and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.28, according to the June 2002 Express Report published by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI; www.semi.org).
• Infineon, Samsung, TSMC rank among top-10 semiconductor suppliers
  JULY 26--Infineon Technologies AG, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) were the rising stars in the IC industry, while Hitachi Ltd. fell from grace, according to the IC Insights Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ; www.insights.com) rankings of the worldwide top-10 semiconductor suppliers for the first half of 2002.
• IPC releases book-to-bill ratio and PCB business report for June 2002
  JULY 26--IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Northbrook, IL; www.ipc.org) has announced the findings from its monthly Statistical Program.

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