In July the U.S. semiconductor industry employment at a record low

　　The bureau of labor statistics released on August 5, July 2016, semiconductor and electronic components manufacturing employment in reduction of 2800 to 359200, the lowest record since records began in 1985.

　　In July the U.S. semiconductor industry employment at a record low

　　Famous human resources firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc, according to statistics released on August 4, 2016, July 1 - American computer companies announced layoffs of 49464 people, compared with the same period in 2015 increased 94%, including 9875 people in July.

　　America in electronics and home appliance retail sales minus 4.7% in June, the biggest drop since December 2015, for the ninth month in a row is lower than the same period a year ago, and in August 2008 to February 2008, the longest downturn since the level.

　　Seagate hard disk factory announced on July 11, following the reorganization plan released on June 29 (note: the announced 1600 job cuts), after the end of the 2017 fiscal year will cut about 6500 people worldwide and is equivalent to 14% of the total number of employees.

　　On August 1, the institute for supply management (ISM), in July 2016, U.S. manufacturing employment index fell to 49.4 from 50.4, eight months since 7 degrees below 50 cut-off (from), a new low since may. 18 manufacturing industries, only eight returns increase employment; "Clothing, leather and its products", "computer and electronic products" ranked number one job losses, the seventh.

　　The us Commerce Department announced on August 5, 2016 in goods, services export amount minus 3.8% in June, the 18th consecutive months less than the same period a year ago, the atrophy of records began in 1993, the longest recorded.

　　Amount in the first half of 2016 the semiconductor exports grew only 2.7% to $22.102 billion, at the same time the semiconductor import amount is increased by 15.5% to $25.861 billion.