SIA Factbook and State of the Industry reports

The Semiconductor Industry Association's free-but-gated publications: a Factbook delivered by email request form as PDF/XLSX, plus openly posted State of the Industry reports and press releases.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - SIA Semiconductor Market Data & Factbook — "Free press releases and the State of the Industry PDF are published openly by SIA; the Factbook is free but gated behind an email request form".

A label on a listing is not a deliverable: teams that license on a name match often find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than assumed, and backfilling history costs more than the license.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the SIA label while differing on the dimension that matters — Free press releases and the State of the Industry PDF are published openly by SIA; the Factbook is free but gated behind an email request form. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

82.4% of the 1,744 cataloged datasets are free to access, and SIA Semiconductor Market Data & Factbook lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open SIA Semiconductor Market Data & Factbook and confirm its record — "Free press releases and the State of the Industry PDF are published openly by SIA; the Factbook is free but gated behind an email request form" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Pin down update cadence in writing: 22.6% of 1,744 cataloged datasets refresh daily and 64 arrive only through a manual request form.
3. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
4. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: electronic-equipment-instruments data, semiconductor-materials-equipment data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - biannual market forecast - email-gated download - WSTS semiconductor market data