Design industry revenue reaches $5.7bn, with uneven growth beneath the total
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Electronic system design revenue rose 12.2% to US$5.71bn in the second quarter, according to SEMI’s ESD Alliance. The gains were spread unevenly across the tools, intellectual property and services used to develop electronic products.
Semiconductor IP revenue increased 20.4% to $2.20bn, while IC physical design and verification grew 16.6% to $818.3m. Computer-aided engineering, the largest individual tools category in the breakdown, rose 7.7% to $2.08bn.
PCB and multichip module design revenue moved the other way, falling 15.4% to $364.2m. Its moving average over four quarters was down a smaller 1.3%. The category covers design products, rather than the value of manufactured boards.
Services grew 25.1% to $251.7m. Across all categories, the moving average over four quarters increased 11.2%.
The Americas remained the largest reporting region at $2.44bn, up 7.1%. Asia Pacific grew faster, rising 22.4% to $2.30bn. Companies tracked in the report employed 71,396 people globally, 1.6% fewer than a year earlier.
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