The outlook for MCUs continues to strengthen following a sharp recovery in smartcards, gradual improvements in the global economy, and the emergence of new embedded-systems applications, such as wearable electronics and the IoT. These market factors, along with steady growth in automotive and portable electronics, will drive up MCU sales by 6% in 2015 to a new record-high level of $16.8bn after a 5% increase in 2014, according to IC Insights&rsqu...

Based on the company's 'Global Wafer Capacity 2015-2019' report and 'The McClean Report 2015', IC Insights has provided a ranking of the industry’s largest IC manufacturers in terms of installed 300mm wafer start capacity in 2014, in Figure 1 - below. Included in the list are four companies from North America, four from Taiwan, two from South Korea, and one from Japan (two companies tied for the #10 position).

IC insights has released details of IC market growth from 19810 to 2019 forecasts. The figure below shows the IC market size at the beginning and end of each decade since the 1980s and the corresponding CAGR for each 10 year period. The company recognises the importance of the endpoints chosen for each CAGR and how they can easily sway the data to look very good or simply mediocre. Therefore, end points were selected based solely on the start and...

The current price trend for oil gives credible upside potential to IC Insights’ current expectations for worldwide GDP and semiconductor market growth, say the company. As part of its release of the McClean Report 2015, IC Insights will present its McClean Report seminars on 20th, 22nd and 29th January that discuss its IC market analyses and forecasts through 2019.

IC Insights will release the 2015 edition of 'The McClean Report' later this month, which will include a ranking of the top 50 fabless IC suppliers for 2014.

South Korea and Taiwan are countries well known for manufacturing prowess when it comes to efficiently fabricating huge numbers of IC wafers, with most of the IC industry’s biggest fab facilities located in the two nations. Because of their fab operation and wafer fabricating expertise, IC companies headquartered in South Korea and Taiwan lead the way in capital-intensive segments of the IC industry such as high-unit-volume products, or fou...

Since 2006, there have been more embedded systems, industrial equipment, sensor devices, instruments, meters, cameras, animals and other objects connected to the internet than humans using computers, smartphones and other electronics. Until recently, steady increases in internet-connected things have been overshadowed by major market battles in smartphones and the emergence of tablet computers, but with growth rates easing in those end-use system...

According to a report published by IC Insights, the total production value of electronic systems is forecast to increase by a CAGR of 5.2%, growing from $1.41 trillion in 2013 to $1.49 in 2014 and $1.82 trillion in 2018. 

IC Insights’ ‘IC Market Drivers 2015 - A Study of Emerging and Major End-Use Applications Fueling Demand for Integrated Circuits’ is due for imminent release. The report contains analyses on automotive electronics, IoT, tablet PCs, smartphones, medical & health systems, wireless networking, and many other fast growing electronic systems.

IC Insights’ 2015 IC Market Drivers Report will be released later this month. The report contains analyses on the IoT, tablet PCs, smartphones, automotive electronics, medical and health systems, wireless networking and many other fast growing electronic systems. One of the most widely reported metrics concerning the cellphone marketplace is the subscriber base, defined as the number of cellular service subscriptions that exist at a given p...

The top 20 worldwide semiconductor sales ranking for 2014 includes eight suppliers headquartered in the US, three in Japan, three in Europe, three in Taiwan, two in South Korea, and one in Singapore says IC Insights This year’s top-20 ranking includes two pure-play foundries (TSMC and UMC) and six fabless companies. 

The worldwide market for optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) is showing signs of life again after a moribund couple of years. Latest research from IC Insights suggests sales are on track to rise 9% in 2014 to a record high of $63.8bn following a sluggish 1% increase in 2012 and 2013. 

TSMC is leading the way in revenues per wafer among the top four pure play semiconductor foundry companies. A report from IC Insights finds that the revenue per wafer start (expressed in 200mm equivalents) varies considerably among foundry companies (Figure 1). TSMC’s revenue per wafer is forecast at $1,328 in 2014 outpacing GlobalFoundries by 27%.  

Samsung recently announced plans to build a new, cutting-edge wafer fab—a $14.7 billion investment for the company that will be located in Pyeongtaek, a city south of Seoul.  The new fab, slated to begin production in 2H17, will add to Samsung’s current impressive compilation of wafer fabs (Figure 1) as it seeks to maintain its leading position in memory IC sales and expand its system leadership beyond smartphones, Smart TVs, and...

According to data from IC Insights' 'Update to the 2014 IC Market Drivers' report, Asia-Pacific remains the dominant market for IC sales. In 2014, the region is forecast to account for nearly 59% of the $285.9bn IC market.

According to the IC Market Drivers 2014 report from IC Insights, total shipments of personal computing systems (desktops, notebooks, tablets and Internet/cloud units) are forecast to rise 12% in 2014 to 585m units. This is compared with standard PC shipments (desktops and notebooks) which plunged 9% in 2013 and are forecast to decline 5% to 298m this year.

Since losing momentum in the last three years due to economic uncertainty, the microcontrollers market appears to be on the verge of another substantial growth cycle. With the global economy expecting modest growth in the next few years, MCU sales are predicted to increase 6% in 2014 to a record high of $16.1bn, according to IC Insights’ Mid-Year Update to the 2014 McClean Report.

According to 'The McClean Report' published by IC Insights, semiconductor companies’ sales increased by 10% in 1H14 as compared to 1H13. This is 3% higher than the company's forecast for total worldwide semiconductor market growth this year. The top 20 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O S D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 1H14 includes nine suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Japan,...

In its mid-year update to the 2014 McClean Report, IC Insights have highlighted that between 2013 and 2018, analog unit shipments are forecast to grow at an average annual rate of 8.9%. This is faster than the 7.2% forecast for the total IC market and faster than all other major IC product categories (Figure 1).

According to data from IC Insights’ Mid-Year Update to the 2014 McClean Report, the Asia-Pacific region is forecast to increase its share of the ASIC market 17 percentage points from 2004 to 2014. IC Insights has also forecast it to the only region to significantly increase in ASIC marketshare.