According to DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists), the semiconductor distributor and manufacturer members achieved quarterly distribution revenues of 1.31 Billion Euro in Q3/2007. So the market declined by 3.8%. Thanks to the record Q1/2007, 2007 to date is still keeping up, with a minus of only 0.6% against a record equivalent period in 2006.
Trends by region
Regionally, the picture shows the same trends as in previous quarters. While Germany, the biggest market within DMASS, kept the decline at bay with -1.8% against Q3/06 and absolute sales of 434 Million Euro, UK (127 Million Euro) and France (107 Million Euro) again showed a double-digit decline (-18.5% and -13.2% respectively). Italy – the second-biggest market in Europe – declined by 3.8%, to 155 Million Euro. The positive highlights of the quarter were Benelux (54 Million Euro) and Eastern Europe (153 Million Euro), which both showed double-digit growth. Eastern Europe is about to overtake Italy as the second-biggest European semiconductor distribution market, while the combined Nordic market (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway) is overtaking France.
Product segments
From a product perspective, the patterns of growth and decline have converged during Q3/2007. The only product segment that reported growth during the quarter was Discrete components (219 Million Euro), with 1.3%. All the others have declined slightly – MOS Micro, Opto and Analog - to significantly – Memories, Programmable Logic and Other MOS Logic. Cumulatively in 2007, some single product areas still reported healthy growth numbers: IGBTs grew by 27% during 2007, Power-MOS by 12% and SRAMs by 11.3%. Standard Analog and Microcontrollers, with 269 Million Euro and 236 Million Euro respectively in Q3/07 and by far the most significant product segments within DMASS, grew by 3.2% and 4.9% respectively on a cumulative basis. On the negative side, Microprocessors, Programmable Logic and Other Logic declined double-digit, while DSPs and Advanced Analog declined by 8.5% and 3.8% respectively, on a cumulative basis.
