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SEMICONDUCTOR SALES ROSE TO $166,000,000,000 IN A SINGLE QUARTER THIS YEAR
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The AI hype-train has been rolling for some time now, and shows no signs of
slowing down. While public perception of AI tech continues to vary, the
semiconductor market looks to be booming as a result of all that investment, as
the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has announced that global
semiconductor sales increased 23.2% in the third quarter of this year compared
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That equates to up to $166 billion worth of revenue, with a reported $55.3
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"Sales in September reached the market’s highest-ever monthly total, driven by a
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However, it's not just the Americas seeing huge demand for high-end silicon.
Year-to-year sales were also up in September for China by 22.9%, the
Asia/Pacific region by 18.4%, and Japan by 7.7%. It wasn't all steadily climbing
lines though, as Europe's sales dropped by 8.2% in the same month.



This tracks with the latest financial disclosures from TSMC, the worlds leading
manufacturer of high-end chips. The Taiwanese company recently announced a third
quarter revenue increase of 39% year-over-year, with third quarter revenue
equating to $23.5 billion.

Certainly, Nvidia seems to be at the peak of the current semiconductor boom, as
it's once again overtaken Apple to sit top of the market cap table, with a
current estimated value of $3.652 trillion. Demand for its new Blackwell
enterprise GPUs has been immense, with industry titans like Amazon, Google,
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And that's not to mention OpenAI, Meta and X. It seems like any large tech
company worth knowing has been jumping on the Nvidia train, and it's not like
its previous generation Hopper H100 have been slow to sell, either. Meta has
been buying the enterprise models en masse for some time now, and with proposed
targets of 350,000 GPUs bought by the end of this year, that's been estimated to
work out to $7 billion's worth of the older silicon purchased in total.

The cash is flowing, and the AI demand for high-end chips appears to be taking
the semiconductor market to new heights. No boom lasts forever, of course, but
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