Global semiconductor industry revenue rose 13.7 percent to $468.8 billion in 2018, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said.
Global semiconductor sales in December 2018 reached $38.2 billion (+0.6 percent) and $114.7 billion (+0.6 percent) in Q4 2018.
Semiconductor markets
China — 20.5%
Americas — 16.4%
Europe — 12.1%
Japan — 9.2%
Asia Pacific/All Other — 6.1%
Memory was the largest semiconductor category by sales with $158 billion (+27.4 percent) in 2018.
Within the memory category, sales of DRAM products rose 36.4 percent and sales of NAND flash products grew 14.8 percent.
Logic with $109.3 billion and micro-ICs with $67.2 billion revenue – a category that includes microprocessors – rounded out the top three product categories in terms of total sales.
Power transistors with $14.4 billion and analog products with $58.8 billion were other fast-growing product categories in 2018.
