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PROFILES BY REGION
U.S. Companies
We begin our analysis of worldwide production and consumption of ICs with a look at
the U.S. semiconductor consumption/production profile. Figure 1 illustrates that the
United States has a relatively symmetrical consumption/production profile, except for
DRAMs and analog ICs. Figure 2 presents a better picture of the United States' position
as a net consumer or net producer of ICs. From it, we can see that the United States is
a net producer of both microprocessors and microcontrollers of bipolar standard logic,
analog ICs, and discrete transistors. However, as expected, the United States also is a
net consumer of DRAMs, a net consumer of SRAMs, and, surprisingly, a net consumer of
both bipolar and MOS gate arrays.
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Figure 1
Semiconductor Consumption/Production Profile
United States
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Billions of Dollars
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Source: Dataquest
July 1989
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