1998 Market Shares Survey Results Released.PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1999--In a study released this week, "1998 Semiconductor Market Shares: Leaders of the Pack," Semico Research Corp. announced the results of the Semico 1998 Market Shares Survey, the companies leading the semiconductor industry in total 1998 worldwide semiconductor sales. The study also included market shares for worldwide sales by semiconductor product type. The top three worldwide semiconductor vendors in 1998 were Intel, Motorola, and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. . In addition to leading in total sales, Intel was the market leader for microprocessors, microperipherals, and Flash memory. Samsung held the top spot in DRAMs and SRAMs, with ST Microelectronics leading in the other non-volatile memory Refers to memory chips that hold their content without power being applied. It may refer to chips that are not changeable, such as ROMs and PROMs, or to chips that can be rewritten many times such as flash memory. categories. Motorola topped the microcontroller market, while Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. led in analog devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. . Finally, in the MOS (1) (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) See MOSFET. (2) (Mean Opinion Score) The quality of a digitized voice line. It is a subjective measurement that is derived entirely by people listening to the calls and scoring the results from Logic category, NEC and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) led, while Altera claimed the number one position for programmable logic. Due to strong microprocessor sales, Intel was one of the few companies to have revenue gains in 1998. Most other companies in the top 10 suffered revenue declines, primarily due to the semiconductor memory industry downturn. SRAMs and Programmable Logic Devices showed revenue gains in 1998, while the other semiconductor categories -- DRAM, Non-Volatile Memory, Logic, and Analog -- all had revenue drops. Overall semiconductor industry revenues were down 8.4% to $125.6 billion in 1998. Most of the industry decline can be attributed to lower revenues from the Americas, down 9.6%, and Japan, down 19.2%. The Asia Pacific region had a modest decrease of 4.4%, while Europe actually increased revenues 1.1% from 1997 to 1998. Further information about the study, and other products and services is available at the Semico Research Corp. website www.semico.com, or by contacting Semico Research, at 602/997-0337. |
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