SIA:9 monthly global semiconductor sales fell 3% from a year earlier, the first decline since January 2020

October 31 news, According to foreign media reports, On Monday local time, The United States Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that in September 2022, Global semiconductor sales fell 0.5% month-on-month, Year-on-year decline of 3%, This is the first decline since January 2020.

Regionally, in September, the Americas (4.8%), Japan Semiconductor sales increased quarter-on-quarter in Asia Pacific/Other (-2.9%) and China (-3.0%), while semiconductor sales increased year-on-year in Europe (12.4%), Americas (11.5%) and Japan (5.6%), but decreased year-on-year in Asia Pacific/Other (-7.7%) and China (-14.4%).

In the third quarter of 2022, global semiconductor sales totaled US $141 billion (approximately RMB 1.03 trillion), down 3.0% year-on-year from the third quarter of 2021 and 6.3% month-on-month from the second quarter of 2022.

At the beginning of June this year, the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics Association (WSTS) predicted that the global semiconductor market would grow by 16.3% to US $646 billion in 2022 and continue to grow by 5.1% to US $680 billion in 2023.

South Korea has only three of the world's top 100 semiconductor companies by market capitalisation, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and SK Square; the mainland of China has 42; the United States has 28; Taiwan has 10; and Japan has seven, according to a survey released last Monday.

"Survey shows that only 3 of the top 100 semiconductor companies in the world by market capitalization are in South Korea"