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Chip Accord Working Foreign-IC share in Japan reaches all-time high By George Leopold, EE Times Washington -- The foreign-owned share of the Japanese semiconductor market hit an all-time high of 32.6 percent during the first quarter of 1997, the U.S. government reported last week. The 3.2 percent jump in market share over the previous quarter comes one year after the approval of a new U.S.-Japan semiconductor accord. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), a trade group that represents leading U.S. chip makers, attributed the sharp increase to that year-old trade agreement and to the strong sales of ICs to computer manufacturers. "The increase in foreign share is a result of vigorous American competitiveness combined with a strong trade agreement on semiconductors between the U.S. and Japan," said George Scalise, president of the SIA. Japanese consumers are buying more personal computers, according to the SIA, which has given a boost to foreign companies that design microprocessors, microperipherals and memory chips.
The first-quarter figure measuring market share held by foreign-owned
semiconductor suppliers for sales into Japan's market exceeds the previous
all-time high of 29.6 percent, which was set in the fourth quarter of 1995.
Foreign market share in Japan has jumped 6.2 percent since the new trade
accord was approved last August, according to government figures. [This article comes from EE Times in a joint cooperative effort with the Motley Fool. For more articles like it, please look at Fool's Gold every weekend or simply go to the Fool's Gold Mine and page through our back issues, which all have clever and cool EE Times articles in them.]
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