Optoelectronics, sensors, actuators and discretes hit record sales

The report has also revealed that total O-S-D sales will grow 6% in 2019 to reach a record-high $87.1 bn.

For the second year in a row, all three segments of O-S-D achieved all-time high sales in 2018 with different growth rates being driven by a variety of factors and market conditions in the year. O-S-D products accounted for 16% of the world’s $504.1bn in total semiconductor sales in 2018 with the rest of the revenues coming from integrated circuits.