The latest report released by market research firm IHS iSuppli on Thursday showed due to economic weakness in Europe and America as well as China's manufacturing slowdown, global chip sales in the second quarter of this year are $ 77 billion, down 3%. IHS iSuppli report also said that chip manufacturers still face a lot of problems, in the next few quarters, global chip market situation will deteriorate further. Dale Ford, senior director of IHS iSuppli electronic products and semiconductor research department (DaleFord) said in a statement,at the second half of this year, due to market concerns about the global economy, the chip maker's situation will continue to deteriorate. IHS iSuppli expects global chip sales growth will be lower than last year's level of 1.4% in 2012. The latest research shows that PC demand is weak so memory and other related parts of the downturn in market demand, which in turn impact on chip sales. IHS iSuppli data shows that at the second quarter, Intel is still the world's largest chip maker, quarter sales of $ 12.01 billion, an increase of 3.1% over the same period last year, the market share is 16%; Samsung (microblogging) ranks second, sales are $ 7.57 billion, a year-on-year growth of 5.8%, 10.1% market share; Texas Instruments ranks third with sales of $ 3.13 billion, down 13% year-on-year sales of $ 2.87 billion; Qualcomm ranks Fourth, a year-on-year increase of 23.7%.