Gartner released the latest forecast, in 2014 global semiconductor sales will grow steadily to reach 3,360 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 6.7% over 2013, higher than the previous quarter's 5.4 percent forecast. Bryan Lewis research vice president at Gartner, said: "2014 growth of semiconductor chips are widely scattered 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 analog, programmable. the logic array (FPGA), application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and non-optical sensor ASIC major promoter 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 X box 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 Ranjit Atwal said: "From a system perspective, smart phones and Ultra mobile devices (including tablet) as the main growth area for traditional desktop and notebook computers in 2014 will continue to shrink 6.7 percent in 2014 total production Ultra mobile devices. expected to grow by more than 30%. cheap tool plate (white card) will continue to bring new impetus to the growth of 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 strength of the overall growth of the semiconductor.