Global sales of computer chips will rise 18 percent this year to US$53.6 billion, fueled by demand for semiconductors that go into notebook computers, according to IDC, a technology and telecommunications market research company.
Revenue growth for the chips will be the fastest until at least 2008, IDC analyst Shane Rau wrote in a report. Sales will grow an average of 7.8 percent annually over the next four years, he said.
Revenue growth for chips used in portable computers will average 16.1 percent a year through 2008, while sales of semiconductors geared for desktop computers will average growth of 2.9 percent in that period, IDC said.
By 2008, revenue from mobile computer chips will almost match those from desktops, compared with about 50 percent last year, it said.
Chips that provide communications abilities will have the highest revenue growth rate, spurred mainly by increasing sales of notebook PCs with built-in wireless networking capability, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based researcher said. Processors and memory chips will have the most absolute revenue growth, the report said.
Intel Corp, based in Santa Clara, California is the biggest maker of processors, which perform the basic computing function of a PC. Samsung Electronics Co is the biggest maker of computer memory.
Intel shares fell 4.3 percent to close at US$27.70 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Samsung shares were down 1.5 percent mid-morning in Seoul yesterday.
Kirk Campbell, chief executive at Framingham, Massachusetts-based IDC, said in an interview last month that global technology spending may rise more than IDC forecast this year as an economic recovery worldwide prompts businesses and consumers to buy computers and digital cameras.
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