IC Insights semiconductor industry recently cut 2016 growth forecast to 1%, said the UK off Europe also is one of the reasons for the negative impact of industry...

Market research firm IC Insights recently cut its forecast in 2016 the rate of growth of the semiconductor industry, from the original revised down to 2% - 1%; Cut, the group said the main reason for the industry growth rate forecast, is based on a weak global economic performance, as well as the DRAM market weakness.

Consumer electronics market and the correlation between the semiconductor industry is more and more close, IC Insights expectations, only 2.3% of global GDP and the growth rate in 2016; If the GDP growth rate less than 2.5%, is considered to be the global economic recession. As for the world's largest PC, digital TV, smartphone, new commercial aircraft and automobile market in China, predict 2016 GDP growth rate of 6.6%; It may feel is healthy, but IC Insights, said with the market more than 10% of the GDP growth rate in 2010 than the relatively.

Moreover IC Insights said, because the British referendum decision from the European Union, the global economy in the next year or two will still be affected by the negative impact of the event, the main reason is that the British after take off the of all kinds of uncertainty, and concerns about the UK Europe could trigger off other European nations would follow suit, such as the Netherlands, France, Italy, Austria, Sweden, etc.

The factors affecting the development of the semiconductor market in 2016, he and DRAM field; IC Insights, estimates that global DRAM market revenue will decline by 19% in 2016, by between $2015 and $2015 in 45 billion to shrink; And if you exclude DRAM, semi conductor markets around the world can estimate with 2% growth in 2016. And recession of DRAM market and DRAM prices over the past year and a half since the rapid decline in related; DRAM average selling prices in 2016 estimated $3.03 16% less than in 2015, to $2.55.