Semico is a semiconductor marketing & consulting research company located in Phoenix, Arizona. We offer custom consulting, portfolio packages, individual market research studies and premier industry conferences.
The semiconductor industry is faced with several substantial issues—the continuing rise in design costs for complex SoCs, the decrease in the incidence of first-time-right designs, and the increase in the design cycle time against shrinking market windows and decreasing product life cycles. An additional factor has now been added to SoC design costs with the emergence of complicated software applications intended to run on SoC silicon.
Published quarterly, Semico’s Wafer Demand Summary and Assumptions includes 17 years’ worth of wafer demand by technology node and by semiconductor product type, as shown in the table below.
The semiconductor industry is faced with several substantial issues—the continuing rise in design costs for complex SoCs, the decrease in the incidence of first-time-right designs and the increase in the design cycle time against shrinking market windows and decreasing product life cycles. EDA tools that allow for closer collaboration between silicon and software design teams provides a better vision of the needs of both groups.
System-on-a-Chip (SoC) is a method of creating silicon solutions that delivers highly integrated chips for the ASIC markets. Designs with very high complexity are regularly accomplished using this approach. Revenue for this market will grow from $227.9 billion in 2022 to $250 billion by 2027, a CAGR of 5.6%. In addition, over the next five years, higher revenues will continue to be driven by the following factors:
The 3rd Party Semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) market has seen great innovation in the products it offers to System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers over the last ten years. If any market segment in the semiconductor industry typifies the intense evolutionary pressures that the entire electronics market has undergone, it is the 3rd Party IP market.
The 3rd Party Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) and the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) markets are undergoing good revenue growth as the world continues to move past the COVID-19 pandemic. Headwinds with weakness in global economies and inflation pose some overall concern, but Semico is assuming any economic downturn will not be long or severe. Augmenting these trends is the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) functionality that is being incorporated in many SoCs and applications.
The 3rd Party Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) and the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) markets are undergoing good revenue growth as the world continues to move past the COVID-19 pandemic. Headwinds with weakness in global economies and inflation pose some overall concern, but Semico is assuming any economic downturn will not be long or severe. Augmenting these trends is the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) functionality that is being incorporated in many SoCs and applications.
The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a great deal of upheaval in 1Q 2023, brought on by COVID-19 and geopolitical tensions. With the semiconductor shortages brought on by disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, announcements in new fab projects and expansions reached a fever pitch in 2022. Moving toward self-sufficiency is a new goal for countries in the wake of the increased level of geopolitical tension around the world.
Published quarterly, Semico’s Wafer Demand Summary and Assumptions includes 17 years’ worth of wafer demand by technology node and by semiconductor product type, as shown in the table below.
SoC design methodology has been affected by EDA vendors who have been active in proposing several changes and improvements that encompass analyzing the SoC design process as a complete—SIP creation, SIP integration, SoC design, applications software development, and EDA tools required to manage the total design process.
