SIA: 's global semiconductor sales in 2020 reached US $439 billion, an increase of 6.5% over the same period last year.

Global semiconductor sales in 2020 were $439 billion, up 6.5% from 2019, mainly because a recovery in sales in the fourth quarter helped offset a sharp decline in March and April, according to, SIA (, the semiconductor industry association of America.

Of this total, global semiconductor sales in December 2020 were $39.2 billion, up 8.3 per cent from December 2019 and down 2.0 per cent from November 2020. Sales in the fourth quarter of 2020 were $117.5 billion, up 8.3 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2019 and 3.5 per cent from the third quarter of 2020.

In addition, global semiconductor sales totaled $113.6 billion in the third quarter of 2020, up 11.0 per cent from the same period in 2019 and 5.8 per cent compared with the same period in 2019, according to SIA.

Us chipmakers have sales of about $208 billion, accounting for about 47 per cent of global sales, according to the association. Us chip imports were $94.15 billion, up 19.8 per cent from 2019.

According to Falan Yinug, director of industry statistics and economic policy at the American Semiconductor Industry Association, the growth in US procurement is mainly driven by high-end memory chips used in data centers and other applications. "although US companies account for nearly half of global semiconductor sales, they accounted for only about 12 per cent of global chip production capacity in 2020, down from 37 per cent in 1990, because most US companies now source chips from Asian factories."