Semiconductor Industry Summary in 2013  

Global semiconductor sales in 2013 will amount to $317.9 billion, up 4.9 percent from $302.9 billion in 2012 . Market growth is being driven by the DRAM and NAND flash memory markets, which are expected to rise by 35.0 percent and 27.7 percent, respectively, in 2013.

Micron Technology Inc. will grow by an industry-leading 109.2 percent in 2013, catapulting the company up the semiconductor market’s ranks to No. 4 in 2013.

Also benefiting from the memory boom is SK Hynix , whose chip revenue to expand by 48.7 percent in 2013. The company will jump to No. 5 in the semiconductor market rankings in 2013, up from No. 7 in 2012.

Some semiconductor suppliers suffer

Sony, Renesas Electronics, and Rohm Semiconductor are expected to decline by 28.1 percent, 15.3 percent and 14.3 percent respectively.

Texas Instruments and nVidia also are struggling in 2013 ,suffering declines of 5.5 percent and 5.6 percent respectively.

Texas Instruments has announced to cut 1150 jobs in Jan 2014, around 3% of its totally employees .

 Semiconductor winners and losers

Beyond the DRAM and NAND segments, other products that will yield healthy growth in 2013 are expected to be LEDs Industry with 9.5 percent,  CMOS image sensors at 5.7 percent,  logic IC up by 4.2 percent, sensors and actuators by 3.6 percent and Analog IC with 3.5 percent.

Markets experiencing significant declines will be CCD image sensors down 40.6 percent; specialty memory with a 19.6 percent drop; digital signal processors(DSP) down by 16.5 percent; SRAM declining by 15.9 percent; NOR flash memory falling by 14.8 percent.