The European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) announced today that European sales of semiconductors in Europe reached US$ 2.836 billion in January 2017, an increase of 4.8% compared to the January 2016 total of US$ 2.706 billion, and up 1.2% compared with the December 2016 total of US$ 2.804 billion.
All figures are based on the latest report of the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), and represent a threemonth moving average.
Europe was the only region among the worldwide WSTS regions that registered monthon-month growth in January, based on a three-month moving average. Looking at the different product categories, the main drivers of January’s growth in Europe were sales of sensors & actuators (up 4.9% compared to December 2016), discrete semiconductor devices and logic devices (each up 2.2%), as well as analog devices (up 1.2%).
Good growth was also registered in Europe for semiconductor devices designed for specific applications, in particular for automotive applications.
In January, exchange rate effects were less significant than in previous months when comparing market growth in Euros and in Dollars. Measured in Euro, European semiconductor sales were 2.663 billion Euros in January 2017, up 2.5% compared to the previous month and an increase of 6.6% versus the same month one year earlier.
