Industrial semi market grows 18%

Industrial semiconductor revenues grew by 18% after 13% growth in 2013. in 2014, according to IHS. It was the highest annual growth since the 36% boom in 2010. The sector is now worth $40 billion a year.

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The IHS list the market drivers as: automation control, commercial avionics, LED lighting, digital internet-protocol cameras, climate control, renewable energy, traction, wireless application-specific testers and oil and gas exploration equipment.

For this year, IHS expects 7% growth – a deceleration caused by slower growth in memory, logic and analog products used in building and home control, military and civil aerospace, and test and measurement.

Micron and ON Got into the top ten for the first time. Micron because of its product-longevity programme which helped it become the leading industrial memory chip supplier; ON because of its acquisition of CMOS image sensor manufacturer Aptina.

Next year’s top ten table will be altered by acquisitions following the Infineon-IR and NXP-Freescale takeovers.

The combined industrial semiconductor revenues for NXP and Freescale last year would amount to $1.3 billion putting a joint NXP Freescale in sixth place, behind ADI.

The combined Infineon-IR industrial semiconductor revenues last year would be $2.3 billion putting it in second place.

The biggest growth market from 2014 to 2019 will be LEDs, which is expected to grow from $6.3 billion to $12.6 billion—stemming from the global general lighting LED lighting boom, with most countries banning incandescent bulbs in 2014.

Discrete power transistors, thyristors, rectifier and power diodes are expected to grow from $6 billion to $7.3 billion, due to the policy shift toward energy efficiency.

MCUs are also expected to grow from $4.3 billion to $5.8 billion, because of advances in power efficiency and integration features.

Out of more than 27 semiconductor segments, 26 achieved increased year-over-year growth in 2014. All 7 major semiconductor components grew last year, led by optical,analogue ICs, logic ICs, discretes, microcomponent ICs, memory ICs, and sensors and actuators.

Analogue ICs and logic application-specific ICs achieved the strongest turnaround in growth, moving from relatively flat growth in 2013 to over 20% growth last year.

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