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Pierre-Jean ALBRIEUX receives the Raymond E. PRITCHARD distinction and enters the IPC Hall of Fame
The Equipment & Services and Test & Measurement College of #Acsiel has just finalized the 4th quarter 2023 barometer.
The French semiconductor market returned to growth in Q4 after two quarters of contraction. According to Acsiel Alliance Electronique, total sales in France rose by 3% on Q3, to €615 million. This represents a contraction of 15% compared with Q4 2022. The market’s annual moving average curve has dipped slightly, but is only 5% below its historical peak in Q2.
The professional organizations ACSIEL, EMBEDDED France, SNESE and SPDEI are announcing an initiative, in coordination with the economic players grouped together in the Comité Stratégique de Filière (CSF), designed to federate and strengthen the entire national electronics industry in a complex environment.
The French semiconductor market fell by 13% in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter, to €598 million. This represents a contraction of 5% compared to the 3rd quarter of 2022. This is the first year-on-year decline in the French market since the fourth quarter of 2020.
The #Acsiel Equipment & Services and Test & Measurements College has just finalized the barometer for the 3rd quarter of 2023.
Press release of November 6, 2023 from SEMICON Europa
The French semiconductor market recorded a decline of -4% in the second quarter compared to the previous quarter (which was revised slightly downwards, to €717 million). According to ACSIEL Alliance Electronique, sales in Q2 represented an amount of €689 million, representing growth of 13% compared to the second quarter of 2022. This marks a trend of slowing growth year-on-year since it was 24 % in the first quarter. Over the first half of the year as a whole, the balance remains largely positive with growth of 18% compared to the first half of 2022.
The #Acsiel Equipment & Services and Test & Measurements College has just finalized the barometer for the 1st quarter of 2023.
For the French semiconductor market, the year 2023 opened with a sixth consecutive quarter of growth with +2%, according to Acsiel Alliance Electronique, with a record billing amount of €738 million. This growth is mainly due to sales via distribution (+15%). Direct sales to end customers overall experienced a one-off decline of 4%, which hides disparities since the automotive and industrial markets grew by around 10%. Year-on-year, growth in the total French market was 29% compared to the first quarter of 2022.
The French semiconductor market recorded sequential growth of 15% in the fourth quarter (including +22% for direct sales and +5% via distribution) to 720 million euros, according to Acsiel Alliance Electronique. This growth illustrates the resistance of the French market compared to the entire European market which recorded a decline of almost 2% in the fourth quarter, and even more in view of the 8% drop in the global market (according to the WSTS) .
The #Acsiel Equipment & Services and Test & Measurements College has just finalized the barometer for the 4th quarter of 2022.
The #Acsiel Equipment & Services and Test & Measurements College has just finalized the barometer for the 3rd quarter of 2022.
The trend remained positive in the French semiconductor market in the third quarter with sequential growth of 3.3%, to 590 million euros, a record level, according to Acsiel Alliance Electronique. Year-on-year, growth amounted to +44% in the third quarter of 2021, a clear acceleration after +25% in the second quarter of 2022 and +10% in the first. Over the last twelve months, the French market has crossed the threshold of 2 billion euros (at 2.18 billion euros) for the first time in seven years and it is now certain that this threshold will also be largely exceeded on the whole of 2022. The French market index as a rolling twelve-month average has been growing constantly for seven quarters (see graph below).
The French semiconductor market continued to benefit from a favorable situation in the second quarter with sequential growth of 6%, to 571 million euros, according to Acsiel Alliance Electronique. This represents growth of 25% compared to the second quarter of 2021.
Stéphane MARTINEZ, the new president of Acsiel Alliance Electronique, presented the electronics barometer for the first quarter of 2022 at the Rencontres de l’Electronique et de l’Electricité.
ACSIEL-SEIPI Signature of B2B and U2U memorandums of understanding
The French semiconductor market continued to grow at an annual rate in the third quarter despite a decline compared to the previous quarter.
The French semiconductor market fell by 2% in the second quarter of 2021 but remains at a high level close to 500 million euros, according to Acsiel Alliance Electronique. This slight decline follows three consecutive quarters marked by robust growth which peaked at 25% in the first quarter. The market continues to recover on an annual moving average (see attached graph).
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The next NRTW 2021 Symposium will take place on Thursday, October 14, 2021 at the IRT Saint Exupéry in Toulouse . There will be a time for discussion, in person, on reliability in the miniaturization and burying of electronic components (DSM, printed circuits, etc.) INFO AND REGISTRATION
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The growth of the French semiconductor market continued to accelerate sharply in the first quarter of 2021, according to Acsiel Alliance Electronique, s ‘rising to 24% compared to the previous quarter. This follows 13% sequential growth in the fourth quarter of 2020.
The Electronics Technical Day was an opportunity for the many experts gathered to highlight the strategic importance of power electronics, at a time when the democratization of SiC and GaN transistors is opening up new opportunities. Article ElectroniqueS
According to Acsiel Alliance Electronique, the rebound of the French semiconductor market was confirmed in the fourth quarter of 2020 with sequential growth by 13% (including Distribution sales), to 411 million euros, following growth of 7% in the third quarter. On an annual basis, this represents a contraction of 8% compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, but it is a marked improvement compared to the low point of the cycle reached in the second quarter at -25% year on year.
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Globalization, as well as the complexity of supply chains in the electronics industry, cyclically lead to disruptions in supply times and therefore in the availability of components, printed circuits, then assembled cards for all industrialists in the sector.
In unison with the European market, the French semiconductor market has rebounded significantly in the third quarter of 2020 after being strongly affected in the second by the economic slowdown due to the health crisis. According to Acsiel Alliance Electronique, sales in France reached 402 million euros, representing growth of 13% quarter-on-quarter and 3% compared to the third quarter of 2019. Year-on-year over a period over 12 months, the French market is down 9%, in line with the entire European market down 8% according to data published by the WSTS.
September 16, 2020 is the launch of the 2nd power electronics week, organized by the Platform, automotive and mobility sector, and the Electronics sector. The two Automotive and Electronics sectors have jointly decided to push a strong initiative for French leadership in power electronics. In the form of 6 webinars, these two sectors are organizing […]
Going unnoticed in the statistics from the first quarter, the “Covid effect” is obvious in the second (see attached graph). The sharp decline in economic activity has had a significant impact on the semiconductor market in France and throughout Europe. While the WSTS announced a 20% drop in billings in Europe in the second quarter compared to the first, the French market fell by 19% during the same period, according to Acsiel, for an amount of 362 million euros. . The French market is also 19% below its value in the second quarter of 2019. The decline is 14% over the first 6 months of the year and 12% over a rolling 12-month period.
According to Acsiel Alliance Electronique, the French semiconductor market rebounded strongly at the end of 2019 after two quarters of decline, with growth of 13% in the fourth quarter compared with the third, to 442 million euros. On an annualized basis, this represents an 8% contraction compared with the fourth quarter of 2018. It is, however, an improvement on the cycle low reached in the third quarter at -13% year-on-year.
CIF has signed an agreement to acquire the vapor phase division of Exmore / Belgium. Pioneer in the field of vapor phase soldering, Exmore has sold all of this activity to CIF.
The global semiconductor market has suffered a significant slowdown since the fourth quarter of 2018, affecting all product families and regions. Like the European market, the French market has also been affected by this correction, but less strongly and with a time lag, as the cumulative results for the first three quarters of 2019 show.
A few months after Bruno LE MAIRE, the French Minister of the Economy and Finance, signed the Strategic Contract for the Electronics Industry with the industry’s key professional organizations (FIEEC, ACSIEL, Embedded France, SNESE, SPDEI), the Electronics Sector Strategic Committee has launched its own website.
In September 2018, the trade associations SEIPI (Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines Foundation) and ACSIEL Alliance Electronique initiated a rapprochement aimed at establishing regular relations between their respective organizations.
The 12ᵉ edition of JTE (Electronics Technical Day) 2019 combined with the 22ᵉ edition of the Golden Electrons Awards was once again a great success.
According to ACSIEL Alliance Electronique, in the first quarter of 2019 the French market totaled 480.9 million euros. This figure includes all direct sales by semiconductor manufacturers and resales by their distributors to integrators. This represents a decline of just -0.6% on the fourth quarter of 2018 (compared with a European market decline of -2.2% in euro terms). The French market grew by 2.5% compared with the first quarter of 2018.
According to ACSIEL Alliance Electronique, in the first quarter of 2019 the French market totaled 480.9 million euros. This figure includes all direct sales by semiconductor manufacturers and resales by their distributors to integrators. This represents a decline of just -0.6% on the fourth quarter of 2018 (compared with a European market decline of -2.2% in euro terms). The French market grew by 2.5% compared with the first quarter of 2018.
2018 ended on a positive note for the French semiconductor market, with the strongest quarterly growth recorded since the fourth quarter of 2016.
2018 ended on a positive note for the French semiconductor market, with the strongest quarterly growth recorded since the fourth quarter of 2016.
The French semiconductor market totaled €488 million in the second quarter of 2018, according to data compiled by ACSIEL Alliance Electronique’s Semiconductor Club. This amount represents growth of 3.1% compared with the first quarter of 2018. Over a cumulative 12-month period, the French market is up 2.7%, showing favorable momentum.
The French semiconductor market totaled 472 million euros in the first quarter of 2018, according to data compiled by ACSIEL Alliance Electronique’s Club Semiconducteurs. This amount is 0.7% higher than in the first quarter of 2017. In 2015, the market returned to its pre-crisis level, and for the past year has once again been on a steady upward trend on a sliding average basis.
2017 ended with a third consecutive quarter of growth for the French semiconductor market, according to data compiled by ACSIEL. In the fourth quarter, the total market including semiconductor manufacturers’ sales to OEMs and distributors grew by 2.0% quarter-on-quarter to €518.6m, 3.4% higher than in the fourth quarter of 2016. Sequential growth in the second and third quarters was +6.3% and +2.1% respectively.
“Reinventing our SMEs: The essential role of CSR
On the occasion of its general meeting, ACSIEL – Alliance Electronique organized a press conference to present its vision of the French electronics market and its Barometer at the end of March 2017.
ACSIEL and WE Network announce the mobilization of the French electronics industry for the World Electronics Forum 2017.
Printed circuit board manufacturers have been experiencing significant price increases for several months now. The pressure on copper is directly reflected in a 15-20% increase in the price of related consumables. Raw materials prices are up overall by 8%, with some items even more critical, such as laminates, which are up by 15 to 25% depending on the supplier, and gold salts, which are up by 10%. Unfortunately, these factors make an increase in finished PCB prices inevitable.
As we predicted in the previous Press Release, and although semiconductor manufacturers and suppliers in France managed to stay on course in the first half of 2016, the third quarter saw a downturn in the market.
Alas, this correction leads to an alignment with the annual trend of the global market.
So, for the first time, we present our “ACSIEL French Electronics Barometer”, backed by business results to the end of September 2016. We can read the evolution of activity in Active Component (SC), Printed Circuit Board (PCB), Equipment & Services (E&S) and Test & Measurement (T&M). The curves correspond to a sliding average over four quarters, compared with a reference level set at the average for the four quarters of 2010.
As we predicted in the previous Press Release, although semiconductor manufacturers and suppliers in France managed to stay on course in the first quarter of 2016, the second half of the year saw a market downturn unfortunately in line with the general – and global – decline in the sector, with no sudden improvement in sight at least for this year.
For the first quarter of 2016, the total market, including OEM and retail sales, is estimated at €503.5 million, virtually equivalent (-0.8%) to the previous quarter, but down -1.8% year-on-year.