International Research and advisory firm, Gartner released the latest forecast, in 2014 global semiconductor sales will grow steadily to reach 3,360 billion U.S. dollars, compared with growth of 6.7% in 2013, higher than the previous quarter's 5.4 percent forecast. At second quarter of 2014 previous quarter's growth rate has exceeded expectations, together with leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), including many businesses have suffered the same circumstances, TSMC forecast growth in the second quarter of the season will be over 20%. Bryan Lewis ,research vice president at Gartner, said: "2014 growth of semiconductor wafers widely dispersed in various types of DRAM memory and applications is expected to once again become the main force in 2014, the annual growth rate of 18.8%; contingent also good performance in other areas, including the analogy can be made. Programmable logic array (FPGA), application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and non-optical sensors. The main promoter of the ASIC for Apple (Apple), its iPhone in the second half of 2014 is expected to show a strong sales; Furthermore, ASIC will also benefit from the new generation of video game consoles brisk sales success, especially SonyPS4 and Microsoft Xbox One. Overall, the growth of the semiconductor distributed widely, compared to 2013 was only 0.8% of the increase in 2014 will be non-memory areas rose 5.2%. "Gartner research director Ran jit Atwal noted: "From a system perspective, smart phones and Ultra mobile devices (including tablet) as the main growth areas of traditional PC desktops and notebooks will continue to shrink in 2014 by 6.7% in 2014 Ultra mobile. the total production of the device is expected to grow by more than 30% low-cost tool plate (white card) will continue to bring new growth momentum for the tablet market. "DRAM prices have remained stable, which is coupled with the main system market growth, will make a breakthrough $ 41 billion DRAM market in 2014. Fluctuations in supply and demand due to the huge memory cycle is a fast markets, Gartner predicts that the next time the memory decline due to massive oversupply and the timing of 2016, will weaken the overall growth of the semiconductor force.