10:35:57; 14th Aug 2008 Author: unknown Source: ESMC

The prospect of the semiconductor industry in 2008 and future will be in what conditions? Some people expect that the electronic industry and chip industry will be "slow down widely".

The IC industry was show the sluggish in first half of the year. Because of the break out subprime mortgages crisis、the crude oil price and other factors, many market research institutes were reduced the predict to the IC industry. The Blended ASP was still worrying. The product storage is glissade. The good and bad sales status of IC is differs in PC、cellphone and other products fields.

But now, it is predict that the customer will reduced the expense on electronic products, thereby influenced the IC Company. "With the development of the economic cycle, it seems that the electronic expense is definitely be at large amplitude down, even if in industry fields and regional markets which the toughness is the strongest," the analyst named Richard Gordon of market investigation and study company Gartner says, therefore, in the later several months, we think that the electronic industry will arise the universality slacken sign, thus, it was direct influence the sales status of the semiconductors.

IC industry emanatory signal good or bad is difference. "The turnover of the semiconductor is a little higher than we expected on June 2008, it reaches to 255 million dollars. The turnover of the first half this year on 2008 is increased 5% than the same period of last year, but the market may relatively weaken in the coming several quarters," Gordon was point out in a copy of the report.

"We are still keep the predicting of semiconductor’s sales status on the latter half of 2008 and the first half of 2009 as a secret," He added, "we predict that the turnover of 2008 will be 1,400 million dollars, to compared the same period of last year it was increased about 3%, the turnover of the full year will reach to 2,670 million dollars around, increased about 4%."We estimate that the opening of 2009 will relatively weaken; it will recover with force in the latter half of the year, it increased 4-9% all the year around.

Some analyst believed that the promising is close at hand, "the annual percentage variation of the chip unit megabit unit shipments" growth rate is in the process of negative growth, and it was usually implication in the past that the industry is feeling bottom," the analyst Mehdi Hosseini of Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co.Inc. (FBR) says.