DSPs will be chip recovery's champion.(Industry Trend or Event)

Electronic Business, July, 1999

Digital signal processors (DSPs), used in all kinds of communications devices, will lead the industry's rebound, according to Semiconductor Industry Association forecasters. They believe DSP sales will jump 25.8% this year, and sales growth of these devices will keep accelerating through 2002.

Microprocessor sales growth also will outpace total industry growth this year, rising 16% in 1999 to $14.1 billion and 19.4% in 2000 to $16.8 billion, the SIA predicts.

As expected, the DRAM market remains the wild child of the chip industry. Oversupply and price cutting caused global DRAM sales to decline from $41 billion in 1995 to just $14 billion three years later. Now the SIA expects DRAM sales to increase 25% to 30% annually for the next three years....