All growth figures represent a three-month rolling average.
European demand in particular for Discretes, Sensors, Logic Devices and Memory ICs remained strong in May, leading to above average month-on-month growth compared with the one percent increase of the overall European semiconductor market. Sales of application specific chips also showed positive growth in Europe compared to April.
Looking at worldwide developments, semiconductor sales in May 2018 were $38.723bn, up 21% versus the same month in 2017.
In May, the exchange rate effects were still visible but less significant than in previous months when comparing market growth in Euro and in Dollar. Measured in Euro, semiconductor sales were €3.033bn in May 2018, up 2.4% versus the previous month and an increase of 5.5% versus the same month a year ago. On a YTD basis, semiconductor sales have increased by 5.7%.