IC Knowledge - Revenue

Revenue trends - updated September 4, 2006
From 1960 until 2000, worldwide semiconductor revenues have increased an average of 14.9% per year - see figure 1.

In figure 1, the dark green line is the actual revenue by year, the light green line is the overall revenue trend and the green triangles are the revenue forecast from our strategic partner IC Insights [2]. Note that since 2000 revenue growth has slowed to 6.1%.


Figure 2 - Worldwide semiconductor revenue growth [1],[2],[3].
Note how the revenue growth rate depicted in figure 2 never actually grows an average amount, but rather exhibits large swings in growth rate.
The preceding discussion as well as additional analysis and discussion of the semiconductor market may be found in our IC Economics report.
References
[1] "World Semiconductor Trade Statistics," SIA, http:/www.semichips.org/pre_statistics.cfm.
[2] "The McLean Report 2002 Edition: An In-Depth Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry," IC Insights (2002).
[3] IC Knowledge database.
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