Databeans - Engineered for Growth

The industrial analog market is expected to reach $2.6 billion by 2011, up from an estimated $1.8 billion today. This amounts to a compound annual growth rate of 8 percent over the next five years. This new study provides readers with forecasts by region, by consumption market and application forecasts are also presented. Industrial test equipment OEM market share is included.
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The test equipment IC market represents a boom/bust model, meaning that there are years of tremendous growth, followed by a downturn, as spending on capital equipment tends to happen by most suppliers at the same time. Databeans anticipates 9 percent growth for next year, as test equipment manufacturers anticipate increased demand following a low 2005 and marginal increases in unit shipments in 2006.
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The total automotive electronics market should reach nearly $150 billion in five years time, assuming a growth rate of 10 percent on average per year. In contrast to the growth rate for worldwide vehicle production, which has been estimated at about 3 percent for the forecast period, the automotive electronics market is growing at a much faster pace, in terms of revenue. These elements drive increasing opportunities for automotive semiconductor suppliers with microcontroller and analog suppliers leading the way.
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The majority of interface IC revenue comes from products for the computer market, such as RS-232, USB, and display standard interfaces, but there are attractive opportunities in the consumer market, with so many hot products there, and in other emerging areas such as medical electronics and in networked data communications.
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This new study provides readers with an in-depth market analysis on this miniature machines. Revenue and unit forecasts are presented by market segment, region, and by product type. The report provides detailed forecasts for hot application areas, such as DLP products and optical network MEMs devices. Market share is also presented for the top tier MEMs suppliers.
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The total power management market is expected to reach $18.8 billion for 2006, and this would represent a 13 percent increase over last year. Expect less growth next year for the overall market, yet 2007 will see new consumer electronics and notebook computers that will raise demand for analog power. Market leaders are a diverse group, including multi-market companies, an analog specialist, and even a consumer electronics manufacturer, with the Top Five suppliers generating 28 percent of total market revenue.
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Higher consuming applications for analog power management would include PCs, including notebooks and desktops, cell phones, and mobile consumer devices like digital cameras, gaming devices, and Mp3 players. This market is currently booming due to the high growth seen in portables, including cell phones and notebook computers mostly. All together, analog power ICs constitute about 38 percent of the overall $19 billion power management market. This share has risen steadily over the last decade. In 1995, the share of analog power revenue in comparison to the larger market was less than 20 percent.
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Second only to the wireless communications market in terms of new semiconductor revenue growth, the consumer electronics market will continue to be an attractive opportunity for IC suppliers over the next five years. Consumer electronics is driving demand for semiconductors, in ways similar to today’s communications market, and similar to the computer market of the 80s. Legacy electronics are rapidly being replaced by digital flat panel screen TVs, video recorders, digital cameras, and more. And outside the audio/video space, consumer products are continuing to incorporate more semiconductors for efficient power management and human interface. Such products include home appliances, toys, tools, and environmental controls.
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Newton’s three laws of motion provide relationships between force and movement. Yaw rate sensors, in principle, are the means of collecting the changes in these relationships, which when known, can originate a reaction which might otherwise not occur. Yaw rate sensors and accelerometers have been employed in the automotive industry, where they are used in air bag systems, suspension, and vehicle stability systems, such as antilock braking systems (ABS). Due to advances in manufacturing and packaging for these devices, new opportunities are emerging in other market segments.
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The major analog ASIC/ASSP applications currently in focus are cell phones, portable music players, smart phones, HDTV, and automotive safety systems. Over the next year, the most successful suppliers will be those that have cut production costs and expenses, while offering IC products that make sense to the current market, in terms of performance and pricing. Many of these products will be communications chips, in low-cost cell phones and in the next generation models as well, and in new wireless infrastructure, especially for the emerging regions of the world.
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System support integrated circuits are supporting circuits required in electronics that use a dedicated processor. Timing circuits are included in this market along with memory controllers. This market ships around 1.2 billion units annually with a resulting available market of close to $5 billion. Databeans expects a market value of $6.7 billion by 2011, assuming a yearly growth rate of 6 percent on average.
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Cell phones and portable consumer electronics are driving Standard Linear revenue, even as possible over-capacity nears as a potential threat to the market. While it is true that the semiconductor industry is driven by a variety of end-products, including computers, consumer electronics, automotive electronics, and medical applications, for examples, and that there is no one dominating area of demand, the major drivers at the present time are clearly cell phones and other portable consumer electronics.
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Databeans consumption analysis for the wireless semiconductor market begins with a market segmentation for products by application, mobile phones, infrastructure, Bluetooth, WiFi, and other wireless. Each market is discussed in detail with application shipment forecasts along with the revenue forecasts for wireless products for each segment. The study is completed with a market share analysis that presents the top wireless semiconductor suppliers and which product areas are strengths.
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Databeans estimates that wireless mobile phones will contribute over 85 percent to overall communications DSP worldwide revenue, which is estimated at over $7 billion for 2006. Overall communications DSP revenue, revenue comprised of mobile phones, wireless infrastructure, short-range wireless, other wireless, and wired applications, is estimated at 80 percent of the entire DSP market, which is expected to reach nearly 9 billion this year.
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The Communications market is probably the single most important area of opportunity for the semiconductor industry; and Communications is the largest application market for analog components. There was a time when a statement similar to this was made in reference to the computer market, and while that market is still the largest for semiconductors, communications has been outperforming the rest of the field, in terms of revenue growth, and it will continue to accelerate.
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This study discusses the chip market for products used in medical applications including home diagnostics, imaging, and other clinical diagnostics and therapy. Geographical markets are covered as well as product markets including sensors, optoelectronics, discretes, analog, logic, MPUs, DSPs, MCUs and memory. Major OEMs are discussed and applications blood glucose meters, ultrasound imaging, telemetry and more.
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The computer analog IC segment will see real opportunities for growth, especially in the near future, as demand from the Asia Pacific region will continue to be high, and as the overall computer market experiences a significant upswing. The largest end market for semiconductors is computers, with a revenue share of about 37 percent. Analog plays a significant role in the application market for computers by supporting motor control for servo, stepper, and spindle motors that feed paper through printers, move contact image sensors along a flat bed scanner, and spin hard disk drives in PCs.
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Worldwide Analog product revenue is expected to outperform many other semiconductor product markets in 2006, according to its newly released study, 2006 Analog ICs. Databeans expects Analog sales to be higher in all of the major markets, and in communications and consumer segments especially, driven by the increased demand from portable electronics and handsets, and by increasing consumption by the Asia Pacific region.
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Databeans estimates the current market for temperature sensor ICs at $674 million Growing at an aggressive average annual growth rate of 20 percent each year, this market may reach nearly $2 billion in the next five years. In Databeans new study, “2006 Temperature Sensors” this market is examined. The report provides detailed coverage on application consumption, regional demand, and market share for the top temperature sensor suppliers.
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The pressure sensors market is filled with opportunities for growth, which will lead to a healthy future average growth rate of 14 percent for revenue, and 18 percent in terms of unit shipments, over the next five year. For 2006, Databeans expects pressure sensors to generate well over $500 million for the year, and expects that the market will grow to a size of over $1 billion by 2011.
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Summary:
The 2006 Fast I/O Interface study discusses trends and emerging market opportunities for fast interface devices including Ethernet ICs, Modems, and UARTs. Collectively, fast I/O interface devices support data transmission to and from processors and other devices, and they can be found throughout all major end markets.
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Summary:
The data converter provides a key technology that is used in multiple market segments and in many applications. It is essentially the connecting technology between the analog world and the digital space. These components basically convert an analog wave into a digital form for processing, and then convert it back to analog for use in the real world.
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Summary:
Amplifiers and comparators together constitute about 17 percent of the current Standard Linear product market. These are important signal conditioning circuits used in most of the mature electronic designs, and in the next-generation devices in which communications and computing technologies converge. Consumption extends so widely across major markets and applications that sales will likely follow the general increase in semiconductor demand for this year.
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Summary:
For 2006, Analog ASIC/ASSP will be much stronger, with the increased demand coming from portable consumer electronics, 3G handsets, network upgrades, and PCs – which will surge when the new Microsoft operating system lands at the end of the year. Basically anything portable will need improved power consumption, and higher processing performance will require faster conversion with greater precision.
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Summary:
The Top Three suppliers to this globally influential market continue to be Intel, Samsung, and Texas Instruments, reflecting the importance of the product segments contributing to this major economic segment. Returning to the top five are STMicroelectronics and Toshiba, displacing Renesas and Infineon Technologies, which ranked higher in 2004.
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Summary:
In 2005, the Top Ten suppliers of analog products controlled about two-thirds of the market, with the Top Five combining for a market share of almost 50 percent. According to Databeans survey results, the Top Five analog suppliers continued to be, in order: Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Infineon Technologies, Philips Semiconductors, and Analog Devices, Inc. Both Maxim Integrated Products and Linear Technology moved up in the ranking thanks to stronger bookings across several markets during the last half of the year.
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Summary:
There were few real surprises in 2005, in terms of market share change: Texas Instruments continued to dominate overall Standard Linear and the interface segment, while Analog Devices, Inc. led again in data converters by a wide margin. Texas Instruments did overtake Analog Devices, Inc. in amplifiers, due to disappointing sales at the former market leader. National Semiconductor continued its lead in both comparators and analog power management.
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Summary:
Customers of industrial process and control electronics are learning how to successfully integrate factory functions with business functions, such that these manufacturers can more effectively produce and compete. Of course, manufacturing continues to move toward lower-cost regions of the world, and away from developed regions. And manufacturers in the developed countries face a range of issues, but all of the issues are fuelled by the necessity and desire to effectively compete.
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Summary:
Hard disk drive storage technology has expanded greatly into consumer electronics products. The miniaturization of drives has opened up this market accelerating demand. This technology was once found exclusively in computing applications. Today it is also employed for use in digital video recorders, portable media players, video game consoles, and in digital cameras.
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