The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the United States suggests that semiconductor prices have barely been falling in … improve at a rapid pace. Roughly coincident with the shift to slower price declines in the PPI, Intel -- the leading producer … provide a more accurate measure of price change since then. Our preferred hedonic index of MPU prices tracks the PPI closely …

This note provides quality-adjusted price indexes and nominal shipments data for highly disaggregate classes of … semiconductor devices. These data may be used to construct indexes under different assumptions from those used in indexes that are …

semiconductor prices fall so rapidly in the second half of the 1990s, why has the rate of price decline slowed since 2001, and to … what extent are these price swings associated with changes in the rate of advance in semiconductor technology? We show that … the price swings are statistically significant and that they reflect changes in both price-cost markups and cost trends …