ANALYSIS
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Analogue IC market
continues to grow
The highly diversified market shows all the
signs of substantial growth. Databeans
expands on that growth which is expected to
reach double its value by 2013.
T
he analogue IC market represents 14% of computers to specialised industrial equipment. The
the of the $273 billion annual worldwide analogue market is a highly diversified one, with
semiconductor industry, making it the the top 5 market leaders controlling around 50%
third largest segment behind logic and memory of the total market. The major players in the
shares and making it roughly the same size as the analogue market include such companies as Texas
microprocessor market. Instruments, STMicroelectronics, NXP
Semiconductor, and Infineon Technologies.
By year’s end the worldwide analogue market is
expected to reach around $39 billion and will By region, the largest share of the analogue
continue to grow at around 12% per year and, market belongs to Asia Pacific, which constitutes
despite some price erosion, will reach $67 billion more than half of the total market with a growth
by 2013. Some of growth drivers include high rate of 15% annually. Europe and Japan both
volume application shipments such as laptops and represent around 17% with an expected growth
mobile phones, and also increasing demand for rate of 7% annually, while the Americas only
convergence products and increased portability. constitute 12% of the total market share and only
About half of the global analogue IC market is a 3% annual growth rate. One reason for Asia
comprised of multi-market products, which are Pacific’s tremendous growth rates is its high levels
devices spanning the automotive industry to of consumption in power management and wireless
October 2008
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