The seventh edition of IC Insights' Emerging IC Markets report is now available. This annual study is aimed at helping our clients identify end-use applications that offer great potential to drive growth in demand for ICs over the next several years.
Today, the variety of end-use applications for ICs is greater than ever and continues to expand. In the next five years, numerous emerging system applications will drive the IC market to new heights.
To help you identify end-use applications that offer great potential to propel the IC market through 2008, IC Insights is pleased to offer its highly respected report, Emerging IC Markets---A Study of Future Market Drivers for Integrated Circuits.
Emerging IC Markets is divided into two segments. The first provides an extensive database of historical and future IC market statistics categorized by end-use application. The second examines key emerging electronic system markets that are expected to drive IC demand in the coming years.
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PART I: Extensive IC End-Use Database |
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In Part I, IC Insights presents an extensive 100-page 11-year (1998-2008) IC end-use application database.  Data is arranged in several formats---by electronic system type (computer, communications, consumer, automotive, industrial, and government/military), by device type (microcontrollers, memory, analog, logic, etc.), and by geographic region (Americas, Europe, Japan, and Rest-of-World).
Below is a sample figure from Part I showing the breadth of data provided. It is one of some 40 such tables that provide over 10,000 market data points. Another 40-50 charts and graphs illustrate trends extracted from the data tables.
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PART II: Emerging IC Markets |
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Part II explores specific electronic systems that are expected to play prominent roles in the IC industry over the next several years.
 Included in the section are analyses of wireless networking, cellular phones, entertainment appliances such as video game consoles, digital TVs, digital audio and DVD players, personal and portable computing systems, smartcards, RFID, and automotive electronics.
Historical developments and future expectations that will make these markets attractive for IC vendors are highlighted and discussed.
Below are sample figures from Part II. There are about 250 such figures in the section that help to illustrate trends within the key end-use markets discussed.
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