Semiconductor industry is mainly to do integrated circuits, consumer electronics, communication systems, photovoltaic power generation, lighting applications, high-power power conversion and other fields.

The semiconductor industry belongs to the electronic information industry, belongs to the hardware industry, and is an industry developed on the basis of semiconductors. It belongs to the electronic information industry, belongs to the hardware industry, and is an industry developed on the basis of semiconductors, the basis of the information age.

The semiconductor industry is the industry that produces and sells semiconductors, which are electronic components. There is a trend to design and develop in Europe and Japan (mainly in the United States) and manufacture in those regions and Asia. In 2008 (Heisei 20 years) the world made $2,550 billion in total semiconductor sales.