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Automotive Semiconductors to Reach $73 Billion by 2023, says Semico Research

Automotive electronics are a bright light for the semiconductor industry, as smartphone growth slows, and personal computing growth continues to decline. The expectation is that automotive electronics will become the next big technology market driver. The automotive semiconductor market will exceed the overall industry growth as semiconductor content expands with added features and functionality. The desire to put self-driving vehicles on the road is creating increased interest in innovative automotive solutions as well as increased semiconductor demand.

Average Design Cost for Basic SoCs Across all Geometries was $1.7M in 2017, says Semico Research

The semiconductor industry today is faced with several substantial issues-not the least of which are 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 very complicated software applications intended to run on the SoC silicon.

2018 Total Wafer Demand Expected To Reach 115.1 Million 300mm Wafer Equivalents, Says Semico Research

Semiconductor revenues are expected to increase 12.8% in 2018 as a result of continued strong memory prices. Units are expected to grow 7.2%. The forecast is based on moderate smartphone sales with a possible return to lower memory prices in the second half of the year.

Energy Harvesting Semiconductor Content to Approach $3.4 Billion by 2022, says Semico Research

The term energy harvesting, also known as power scavenging, is used to describe the creation of energy derived from a variety of external sources such as solar power, thermal energy, wind energy, kinetic energy or electromagnetic sources. Energy harvesters accumulate the wasted energy in a system, such as heat given off by motors or semiconductors, or the vibrations of motors or other moving objects.

eFPGA IP CAGR to Approach 42.0% through 2022, Says Semico Research

The 3rd Party IP market is a very broad market consisting of IP functions that SoC designers rely on to craft very complex solutions for ever-increasing market requirements.  Looking at the individual market segments by IP function and by quarter reveals many interesting trends that are otherwise obscured.  One of those trends is activity around silicon solutions for Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) along with eFPGA IP.  A new Semico Research Report,

Wafer Demand Expected to Grow 5.2% in 2018, Says Semico Research

Artificial intelligence in the IoT category-especially in automotive, industrial and home automation-has helped boost semiconductor revenues which are expected to increase over 8.5% in 2018. Unit sales will see an increase of 5.4%, while wafer demand is expected to grow 5.2% according to Semico's recent report, Semico Wafer Demand Update Q1 2018 (MA110-18).
 

Artificial Intelligence the Next Big Semiconductor Market Driver, says Semico Research

Artificial Intelligence (AI) functionality has emerged into the semiconductor market with many companies participating at all levels of the semiconductor, software, services and IP industries offering a variety of products. The emergence of the AI market represents the 'next big thing' for both the semiconductor industry as well as the overall economy. Deployment has already started in factory floor environments delivering better control and maintenance over a multitude of industrial processes and products.

SoC IP Market to Approach $10 Billion in Revenue by 2022, Says Semico Research

The 3rd Party Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) 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 SIP market.  A new Semico Research Report, Licensing, Royalty and Service Revenues for 3rd Party SIP:

FPGA Unit Shipments Projected to Grow 14.4% through 2021, Says Semico Research

The ASIC design starts market continues to evolve with changes in the end-use markets.  In terms of unit growth rates the Communications segment is now third behind Industrial and Consumer. The communications segment will have the most number of design starts over the next 5 years while automotive will have the highest growth rate of all the segments.  However Industrial, while a very fragmented market, will have a higher number of design starts than automotive driven by Smart Grid applications along with a renewed growth in factory automation applications.

Wafer Demand up over 10% in 2017 Despite Higher Wafer Prices, Says Semico Research

The continuation of new product development in the IoT category such as automotive, industrial and home automation has helped boost semiconductor unit sales in 2017.

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