Investors are keenly aware of the sensor’s role as a critical component of connected devices under the Internet of Things (IoT) umbrella. In fact, a huge portion of funding was channeled to sensor developers over the past decade. Driven in part by new applications around wearables and the emerging IoT market, innovative sensor developers drew…
The global semiconductor market in 2016 is being dragged down by a weak global economy – in part due to the Brexit vote – and a weak DRAM market, according to IC Insights. As a result, the market researcher lowered its semiconductor forecast for 2016 to negative one percent growth. IC Insights joins other forecasters…
After roller coaster growth rates since the 2008 recession, the global power transistor market is expected to make a modest recovery, starting in 2016, according to the latest research from IC Insights. Over the next three years, sales are expected to reach record-high levels thanks to greater demand for energy efficiency and new connections to…
Texas Instruments (TI) maintained its position as the top analog IC supplier in 2015 with $8.3 billion in sales, giving the company an 18 percent market share, according to IC Insights. TI’s analog sales surpassed the combined revenue of the next three largest analog suppliers – Infineon, Skyworks, and Analog Devices, and accounted for 69…
Texas Instruments (TI) maintained its leading position as the largest industrial semiconductor supplier in 2015, followed by Infineon Technologies and Intel, according to the latest IHS Inc. research. Rounding out the top five ranking are STMicroelectronics, which fell to number four, and Analog Devices, which maintained its number five position. Semicast Research also recently released…
Semiconductor unit shipments, including integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discrete, or O-S-D, devices, are forecast to exceed one trillion units for the first time in 2018, according to IC Insights’ 2016 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry. The milestone is expected to be the new normal for semiconductor shipments starting…
Depending on the market research firm, global semiconductor capital spending will either grow or decline in the single digits in 2016. The good news is that spending should rebound after 2016. While IC Insights forecasts low-digit growth in 2016 for global semiconductor capital spending, Gartner expects spending to drop by 4.7 percent in 2016, to…
The uncertain global economy will continue to have a dampening effect on the semiconductor market, according to two leading analyst firms. While the chip industry had been able to outperform the overall electronics market for decades, chip makers have had to grow accustomed to a more sedate pace of growth. IC Insights and Future Horizons both have forecast…
Integrated device manufacturer (IDM) semiconductor supplier growth could outpace fabless semiconductor company sales for only the second time on record, according to IC Insights. The upcoming 2016 McClean Report forecasts that sales of the top 10 IDMs will be flat, while sales for the top 10 fabless companies will slip into negative territory this year.…
The automotive IC market is forecast to increase at an average annual growth rate of 6.7 percent, which is the highest growth among six major end-use IC applications, from 2014 to 2019, according to the latest research from IC Insights. The sector’s strong growth is driven by increasing IC content for systems that assist, automate and communicate, said…