World semiconductor gross sales rose 6.5 % total in 2020, as a restoration over the last three months of the yr helped offset a pointy dropoff in March and April, when pandemic stay-home orders rolled out around the globe.
World gross sales had been $439 billion (roughly Rs. 32,08 lakh crores) in 2020, in accordance with knowledge from the Semiconductor Business Affiliation (SIA), a commerce group that represents most US chipmakers together with many worldwide companies. The group mentioned gross sales from US chipmakers had been about $208 billion (roughly Rs. 15,20 lakh crores), or about 47 % of the overall.
Chip gross sales into the US had been $94.15 billion (roughly Rs. 6,87 thousand crores), up 19.8 % from the earlier yr.
Falan Yinug, SIA’s director of business statistics and financial coverage, mentioned a lot of the rise in US buying was pushed by high-end reminiscence chips utilized in functions akin to knowledge facilities.
American tech firms akin to Amazon.com, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google all noticed dramatic rises in the usage of cloud computing over the course of 2020 as companies tailored to working from residence.
Whereas US-based firms represented almost half of semiconductor gross sales, they represented solely about 12 % of chip manufacturing capability in 2020. That’s down from 37 % in 1990, as most US firms now supply their chips from factories in Asia.
John Neuffer, president and chief government of the business group, mentioned laws handed final yr to supply incentives to chip factories in the US may assist change that determine this yr. The regulation may present funding to US firms akin to Intel or GlobalFoundries, in addition to overseas companies akin to Samsung Electronics or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Firm.
“Over the subsequent 10 years, semiconductor manufacturing goes to develop 56 %,” Neuffer mentioned. “We need to be sure we’re getting a much bigger piece of the manufacturing pie.”
© Thomson Reuters 2021
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