Global chip sales in August increased 21.7% from the same month last year to $64.88 billion, according to a press release from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Compared to July, the rebound was 4.4% (from a revised $62.14 billion).
“Global semiconductor sales continued to rise in August. Asia-Pacific and the Americas continue to drive the rebound, with particularly strong growth in memory and logic chip sales,” said SIA President and CEO John Newfer, quoted in the report
Sales in the Americas in August were up 25.5% year-over-year, with China up 12.4%, Europe up 4.4%, and Asia-Pacific and other regions up 43.1%. At the same time, a 6.9% decrease was recorded in Japan.
Chip sales relative to July increased in the Americas by 4.3%, in APAC by 6.9%, in the PRC by 3.3%, in Japan by 2%, and in Europe by 1%.
SIA represents about 99% of the U.S. semiconductor industry and about 66% of chip makers from other countries.
Ukraine plans to start producing 50 thousand chips per month in three years after the start of construction of the factory, said Valeria Ionan, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for European Integration.
“We will thus meet the needs of the domestic market, as well as create a basis for exports,” she said at the presentation of Ukraine’s global innovation vision on Thursday.
According to her, chip production in Ukraine will supply most of the country’s industrial sectors.
At the same time, she did not name any specific dates for the start of construction.
Ionan noted that Ukraine will create a network of fabless companies (a company that does not have its own factory) for automated chip design, which will allow it to enter the chip market and take a position in the global semiconductor market.
For his part, Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science, and Technology – Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said that the Ministry of Digital Transformation plans to develop and present a chip in 2024.
According to him, the Ministry of Digital Transformation is working with various companies in this direction, but no other details have been disclosed so far.
PepsiCo Ukraine, one of the largest producers of food and beverages, is considering the localization of production of Lay’s chips. “PepsiCo Ukraine to further meet the demand of consumers is working to improve the efficiency of work. Localization of production is one of the ways. To this end, we are studying and analyzing the Ukrainian agrarian sector, its potential,” the press service of the company told Interfax-Ukraine.
PepsiCo produces chips under the Lay’s brand in Poland. PepsiCo in Ukraine owns five enterprises: a plant for processing fruits, vegetables and juice production (Mykolaiv region), a plant for production of juices, carbonated drinks and cold tea (Mykolaiv region), Kharkiv Dairy Plant (Kharkiv), Kyiv Dairy Plant (Kyiv region), where Agusha baby food factory, launched in 2012, is also located.
