IHS iSuppli say that the downturn of the market economy in Europe and the United States as well as China's manufacturing slowdown have a direct impact on the semiconductor chip sales for the second quarter of this year. On the current situation, the chip market demand in the third quarter continued to decline. Global chip sales for the second quarter totaled $ 77 billion, sales were down 3 percent over the same period last year, which the Japanese and European semiconductor manufacturers had the most serious decline in sales. The senior director of IHS electronic and semiconductor research departments, Dale Ford claimed that the current global economic situation within the next six months will continue to hurt the chip suppliers. The IHS forecasts for semiconductor in 2012, industry revenue growth will be less than last year, lower than 1.4%. According to another study, that the market for PC equipment reduced demand, resulting in some PC components dependent on semiconductor memory demand be reduced, for example, also contributed to the slowdown of the semiconductor market. IHS research report shows that the general downturn in the semiconductor market environment, the global market share of chip manufacturers, Intel, still maintained a growth of 3.1%, nearly 2 times more than the average level of the whole industry, the sales volume is over 12 billion U.S. dollars occupied 16% of the chip market; followed by Samsung Electronics in the sales and market share is less than Intel, but its annual growth rate is 5.8%, higher than Intel, nearly doubled! The total sales are nearly $ 7.6 billion, a market share of 10.1%, and become a huge threat to Intel's challenges. The third, Texas Instruments is far near the first two, revenue fell by 13%, the total sales volume is more than three billion U.S. dollars.  Although Qualcomm ranked fourth in terms of volume, but in growth rates,it is far ahead.