Databeans Forecast: Continued Moderate Growth for 2007
Semiconductor Markets – Worldwide

Semiconductor revenue growth is expected to remain on track through 2007 with an estimated worldwide revenue increase of 12 percent, up slightly from 2006. While certain application markets using chips are expected to slow somewhat in the coming year, there are others that will make up for this sustaining growth in line with the five year average...

Freescale Semiconductor Leads in Automotive IC Market
Semiconductor Applications Markets – Worldwide

Databeans estimates that Freescale Semiconductor leads in the Automotive Semiconductor market by a small margin over Infineon Technologies. The top three suppliers to this market, Freescale Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, and STMicroelectronics, earned nearly one third of total worldwide revenue, which is reported at $18 billion for 2006...
 

Texas Instruments Widens Lead in the Analog Market
Analog Markets – Worldwide

 
With 17 percent growth in 2006, Texas Instruments expanded its lead in analog with a  14 percent share of the global $37 billion market. Other top players include STMicroelectronics, Infineon Technologies, NXP, Analog Devices and National Semiconductor. Strong growth in 2006 was seen by NXP, which is focusing more on higher margin products for vertical markets. Other movers include Freescale Semiconductor, Intersil, and ON Semiconductor...
 

Despite New Competitive Forces, Entrenched
Signal Conditioning Market Suppliers Dominate
Analog Markets – Worldwide

Signal conditioning circuits include amplifiers, comparators, and data converters. These standard linear products are analog ICs that alter real world analog signal so that they can be used by digital processing circuits. In general these are multi-market products used to amplify, filter and convert signals in to the digital language of 0s and 1s. Combined, the signal conditioning market is estimated at $4.7 billion worldwide for 2006...
 

2007 Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue and Channel "Health"
Semiconductor Markets – Worldwide

So far this year, worldwide revenue for semiconductors has been impacted by an inventory glut that started last fall. Because of this market condition, it is likely that the original Databeans January 2007 forecast of 12 percent growth will not be achieved. Instead, we are expecting moderate growth, but not at the level of other current predictions, which are calling for roughly the same revenue total as last year...
 

Timing Market Keeps Pace
Semiconductor Markets - Worldwide

The market for timing devices is estimated at $1.6 billion, and growing by close to 13 percent on average each year, according to Databeans, Inc. Demand for these integrated circuits is outpacing traditional crystal-type products due to competitive pricing, and the ability to integrate timing with other functions, particularly in the consumer space....
 

Promising Home Medical Telemetry Market Attracts IC Suppliers
Semiconductor Markets - Worldwide

Shipment share for worldwide medical electronics continues to migrate from hospitals, through doctors' offices, to patient residences. Most consumers have at least one electronic device used for health care in their home. Digital thermometers, blood glucose meters, and blood pressure monitors are some of the most prevalent applications being utilized by consumers today...
 

Wireless Semiconductor Demand in India
Semiconductor Application Markets - Worldwide

Despite some inventory issues in the wireless market that occurred during the first half of 2007, this year's wireless revenue is working its way toward the $40 billion mark. Regions contributing most notably are China, with over 17 percent share of consumption, Europe with 19 percent share as a whole, and Japan with 15 percent share...
 

Worldwide Power Management Market
Semiconductor Analog Product Markets - Worldwide

Demand for certain semiconductor products are tied closely with the application markets they serve, such as microprocessors and the PC, DSP and the mobile phone, and transceivers with broadband. For power management, however, suppliers enjoy relatively consistent demand through the ups and downs of replacement trends, provided their customer base is diverse enough...
 

SSL Markets
Semiconductor Markets - Worldwide

The market for traditional lighting is very large - estimated at over $100 billion in 2006. Traditional lighting equipment uses filaments or gas, a technology that has had little innovative change over time in terms of power efficiency and usage hours. The semiconductor industry has already begun introducing an alternative solution by way of optoelectronics, specifically Solid State Lighting (or SSL), where products include LEDs for the most part...