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First quarter of 2006 follows industry expectations

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Semiconductor shipments to Europe showed a moderate sequential decline, in line with the worldwide trend and the seasonal behaviour for the first quarter of the year.

Semiconductor shipments to Europe showed a moderate sequential decline, in line with the worldwide trend and the seasonal behaviour for the first quarter of the year. This result also corresponds to the latest WSTS forecasts released last autumn.

The overall market performance was for the most part influenced by the decrease in sales of Microprocessors, down sequentially from Q4 2005, but also declining in comparison to the first quarter of last year.

In Europe and other regions Flash memory products slowed down in Q1 2006. However this relative slow down should be viewed against the extremely positive outlook for flash memory over the past year. There was high demand for Application specific integrated circuits in this quarter, particularly for the automotive and the consumer sectors. Chips for communication applications reported an overall positive result. A moderate growth was recorded for Digital Signal Processors and DRAM.

European Semiconductor sales in March 2005 amounted to US$ 3.240 billion according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), up 4.1% versus the previous month. This corresponds to a 4.0% decline compared to the same month last year. On a total year basis, semiconductor sales declined in 2006 as well by 4.0% versus the year 2005.

The exchange rate of the Euro compared to the US$ has an increasing controversial impact on the growth data in the recent months. Measured in Euro, semiconductor sales in March were EURO 2.690 billion, up 3.5% on previous month and up 4.6% versus the same month a year ago. On a Total year basis, semiconductor sales show in 2006 a growth of 4.6% versus 2005.

On a worldwide basis, semiconductor sales in March were US$ 19.697 billion, up 2.3% versus the previous month. This results in an increase of 7.3% versus the same month in 2005 and on a year-to-date basis it results as well in a growth rate of 7.3%.

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