Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced in December 2000, global semiconductor sales reached $ 17.9 billion, with total annual sales in 2000 of $ 204 billion, setting a new industry record. SIA's president, George Scalise said: "Sales data networking, broadband, wireless, optoelectronics and other communications solutions soared, PC demand has continued to grow, in this situation, the industry's annual sales grew by 37% over last year for semiconductors. industry, the situation this year is exciting. sales up $ 204 billion, this record is unprecedented, it was in 2000 marked a perfect ending. "The industry has been a significant growth in various markets, the demand around the world are great. Flash memory, logic, analog, optoelectronics and programmable logic devices (PLD) is still the fastest growth in the current portion of the semiconductor market, because Internet infrastructure and communications applications base stations, mobile phone, PDA and digital camera like they should be used .