G17: Microprocessor Price Index Released

Published on March 11, 2013

An annual price index for microprocessors for the period 2007 through 2011 is now available. The index provides an estimate of year-to-year price changes for microprocessors assuming that the quality of the chip is unchanged. Wholesale prices from publicly available price lists were adjusted for performance using a hedonic regression. This price index will be incorporated into the industrial production index for semiconductors and related components that will be published on March 22, 2013, as a part of the annual revision to the G.17 statistical release on Industrial production and Capacity Utilization. A comma-delimited text file containing annual data (as well as a description of the estimation technique) is available for download. More details are available here.

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