KUALA LUMPUR: Communications and personal computers accounted for nearly 64% of the top semiconductor markets by end-used in 2015, according to a World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) report.
The semiconductor end-use report said communications accounted for 34.1% of total sales while PC and computers accounted for 29.7%.
WSTS said last year marked the second year in a row that communications represented the largest end-use application for semiconductors.
However, unlike over the past six years, it did not grow as a share of total semiconductor sales in 2015.
“The share of these two categories declined slightly compared to 2014, mainly due to a 1 percent decrease in the PC/computer share of the total,” it said.
The only other end-use category that experienced a notable change in 2015 was industrial/government (12.8%), which increased by roughly 1%.
The other major end-use categories – communications, consumer (13 percent), and automotive (10.3 percent) – remained roughly the same in 2015.
Much of the stability in end use market share in 2015 was due to the overall size of the semiconductor market remaining flat in 2015.
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