The German Association for Component Distribution (FBDi) has announced a decline of 1.8% for the second quarter 2005 for German component distribution compared to the same period of the previous year. The market remained flat in comparison to the previous quarter The total turnover of the distributors reporting in the FBDi in 2005 was almost 512 million Euro (previous year: 521 million Euro).

The largest product area were semiconductors with approximately 70% (without CPUs and DRAMS for the PC market which are not counted by the FBDi), followed by passive components with almost 17% and electro-mechanical components with approximately 11%. The semiconductor turnover declined by 1.6% compared the Q2/2004 and the passive components by 5.5%. Only the electro-mechanical products grew by 2.7%. Displays stagnated at 0.7% Compared to this, the power supplies grew by 13% from April to June..