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It’s a record
The market for semiconductors worldwide saw sales rise by 21.6 percent and worth $ 412 billion.
According to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA), using figures provided by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), sales in 2017 were up from a record $ 338.931 billion in 2016.
The growth was mainly from memory devices, sensors and actuators, analogue devices and logic devices.
Europe, too, performed well in 2017 with sales of $ 38.311 billion – up 17.1 percent from the year before.
Exchange rate fluctuations because of differences between the euro and the US dollar amounted to -2 percent.
