China is chip market’s only growth region
Regionally the all the regions showed year-on-year decreases of sales with the exception of China (growth of 5.3 percent). Japan and Europe continue to be the poorest performing regions, partly due to currency exchange rate weakness.
Three-month average sales by regions in November, October 2015. Source: SIA/WSTS.
The year on year decline shown in the averaged data for November is roughly on par with figures for October, September and August, which showed annual declines of 2.5, 2.8 and 3.0 percent respectively. The market for the calendar year is on course to be flat.
The three-month average of worldwide sales of semiconductors in November was $28.88 billion, a decrease of 3.0 percent from November 2014.
Monthly data is given by the SIA as a three-month average, although the WSTS organization tracks actual monthly data. The SIA and other regional semiconductor industry bodies opt to use averaged data because it evens out the actual data that typically show troughs at the beginnings of quarters and peaks at the ends of quarters.
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