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washington—sept 3, 2019—the semiconductor industry association (sia) today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors were $33.4 billion in july 2019, 1.7 percent more than the june 2019 total of $32.8 billion, but 15.5 percent less than the july 2018 total of $39.5 billion. monthly sales are compiled by the world semiconductor trade statistics (wsts) organization and represent a three-month moving average. sia represents u.s. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research.
“while global semiconductor sales in july were once again down on a year-to-year basis, month-to-month sales were up slightly,” said john neuffer, sia president and ceo. “month-to-month sales increased modestly across most regional markets in july, with asia pacific and the americas posting the largest gains, although sales into the americas remained down on a year-to-year basis.”
regionally, sales increased on a month-to-month basis in asia pacific/all other (3.1 percent), the americas (2.5 percent), china (1.1 percent), and japan (0.7 percent), but decreased in europe (-0.5 percent). on a year-to-year basis, sales were down across all regional markets: europe (-8.6 percent), asia pacific/all other (-11.0 percent), japan (-12.0 percent), china (-14.1 percent), and the americas (-27.8 percent).
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