2月3日获悉西门子半导体集团1998年销售收入排名全球第十,并保持欧洲第二。去年全球半导体市场总销售额下降9％,尤其是存储芯片价格大跌令半导体集团损失巨大。但西门子在系统集成电路、功率半导体器件、高频集成电路和光电器件等业务领域均有高于市场平均增幅的增长。 February 3 was informed that Siemens Semiconductor Group sales in 1998 ranked 10th in the world, and maintained the second in Europe. Last year, the global semiconductor market, total sales fell 9%, especially in the memory chip prices plunged the semiconductor group lost huge. However, Siemens is higher than the average market growth in the business areas of system integrated circuits, power semiconductors, high frequency integrated circuits and optoelectronic devices.