Profile of European semiconductor manufacturers

Profile of European semiconductor manufacturers Mackintosh Publications Limited, Luton, UK (1979) 98pp £150 UK ($3 75 overseas) lust over half (52%) of the 1978 European semiconductor and microelectronics market, estimated here to be worth $2644M in 1979 and $3648M in 182, was held by indigenous European companies. Of the 20 leading producers in Europe, 10 are owned by American or Japanese multinationals and two have large US subsidiaries. These are the main conclusions of this Mackintosh Monitor Report,

which gives estimates of the European semiconductor market from 1977 to 1982 and of the market shares of the major suppliers. Profiles of these major suppliers are given, followed by a consideration of European participation in the US semiconductor industry. New European ventures, particularly in France and the UK were governments have provided much of the impetus and large amounts of the money needed to finance such enterprises, are also discussed. The main bulk of the report, however, is taken up by a directory of the major European semiconductor manu-

facturing plants, giving the location, size, number of employees and estimated European semiconductor sales of over 50 plants. More valuable to prospective users of semiconductors, perhaps, is the section o f the report concerned with customdesigned ICs. Several ways of embarking on such a venture are examined, with particular emphasis on the production, and producers, of uncommitted logic arrays. IC design centres are also considered, and attention is drawn to the fact that independent design houses only exist in the UK there are none in the rest of Europe.

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