| IC Packaging Market at $32.7 Billion in 2008 |
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| Written by Chelsey Drysdale | |||
| Monday, 22 June 2009 15:19 | |||
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SAN JOSE – With 155 billion ICs produced, the value of the worldwide IC packaging market was $32.7 billion in 2008, reports Electronic Trend Publications. The market will drop to $28.6 billion in 2009, before an upswing in 2010. The worldwide semiconductor industry will grow to 220 billion ICs in 2013, while the value of the IC packaging market will grow to $46 billion then, according to ETP.
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