According to information technology research and advisory firm Gartner, 2014 global semiconductor sales will grow steadily to reach 3,360 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 2013 growth of 6.7%, higher than the previous quarter's 5.4 percent forecast. In 2014 compared with previous quarter's second quarter's growth rate has exceeded expectations, together with leading foundry 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 is widely dispersed in the growth of semiconductors and application of various types of DRAM chips 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 door. array (FPGA), application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and non-optical sensors. ASIC is the main promoter of Apple Inc., whose iPhone is expected in the second half of 2014 will show strong sales. Additionally, ASIC will also benefit from the new generation of video games host 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 noted:. "From a system perspective, smart phones and miniature mobile devices (including tablet) as the main growth areas of traditional desktop PCs and notebooks will continue to shrink in 2014 by 6.7% in 2014 the total production of miniature mobile devices 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 memory due to oversupply and a massive opportunity for the fall 2016, will weaken the overall growth of the semiconductor force.