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Industry Trends Highlights 2002 p9 of 12:

• No change in chip sales, January to February
  APRIL 9--February chip sales worldwide remained flat from January at $10.01 billion, according to the latest report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA; www.semichips.org).
• US and global SEMIndexes show big gains for March
  APRIL 1--The US SEMIndex--an equity index of 47 North American manufacturers of semiconductor equipment and materials--rose 24.77% during March to 240.29, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI; San Jose, CA; www.semi.org).
• IPC releases book-to-bill ratio and PCB business report
  MARCH 27--IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Northbrook, IL) recently announced its findings from its monthly Statistical Program.
• 1394 Trade Association sees continued expansion of products equipped with IEEE 1394/FireWire/i.LINK
  MARCH 27--The director of the 1394 Trade Association (Dallas, TX) recently predicted that most new notebook computers will incorporate the IEEE 1394 standard by the end of this year.
• IS&T and SPIE relocate Electronic Imaging Conference
  MARCH 27--Moving the conference to Santa Clara, CA (20--24 January 2003) will allow Electronic Imaging to preserve its unique identity and maintain a "community feel."
• Book-to-bill, orders, and billings up from January
  MARCH 26--The North American book-to-bill ratio increased in February to 0.87, up from January's final 0.81, according to the latest report by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (www.semi.org).
• End in sight for electronics inventory glut
  MARCH 26--After more than a year of struggling with the inventory glut, the semiconductor supply chain is finally on the verge of ending its surplus stock woes, according to iSuppli Market Intelligence Services (El Segundo, CA; www.isuppli.com).
• Amir Novini receives Automated Imaging Achievement Award
  MARCH 25--The Automated Imaging Association presented its 2002 Automated Imaging Achievement Award to Amir Novini, president and chairman of Applied Vision Company (Akron, OH), on March 7 at its annual Business Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
• Component orders growth up 30%
  MARCH 21--February electronic-component orders were up by more than 30% compared to February 2001, according to the monthly index from the Electronic Components, Assemblies & Materials Association.
• USB remains king of PC and peripheral interfaces
  MARCH 21--The Universal Serial Bus (USB) will continue its reign as the most successful interface in the history of PCs, with USB 2.0 completely penetrating the PC market over the next two to three years and PC peripherals and consumer electronics following closely behind, according to In-Stat/MDR (www.instat.com).

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