Annual semiconductor unit shipments will grow 9 percent in 2018 and top one trillion units for the first time, according market analysis firm IC Insights.
Feb. 06, 2018 –
The shipments are made up of two main classes: integrated circuits, which will grow 11 percent; and optoelectronics-sensors-discretes (or O-S-D, devices), which will grow 8 percent.
For 2018, semiconductor unit shipments are forecast to climb to 1,075.1 billion up from 32.6 billion units in 1978. Over that 40-year period the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) has been 9.1 percent.
Shipment growth has been consistent over the period with two major aberrations; the correction in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst and in 2008-2009 after the global financial meltdown.
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