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.]]>
