Strategic report on IC application markets

DUBLIN, IRELAND: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "IC Application Markets" report to its offering.

After an unprecedented six years of double-digit unit growth, the semiconductor industry faltered in late 2008 as the global economic crisis struck hard. So, where is the industry headed now? When will growth resume? What products will lead growth in the future?

New Venture Research (NVR), in the 2009 Edition of IC Application Markets, analyzes IC usage across the entire electronics industry and uses this analysis to forecast the future of the global IC market. The forecast will enable your company to target high-growth applications.

The report begins with NVRs views on the state of the semiconductor industry, along with a top level forecast (see figure below). This discussion includes global economic factors that may prove crucial to the industry in the coming years.

Following this high-level review, IC forecasts are presented for five electronics market segments:

* Computer Communications.
* Consumer Industrial and Medical.
* Transportation and Defense.

This forecast breaks the semiconductor industry into more than 40 products and provides IC units and IC revenue for these products. Some of the specific products covered include:

* PCs Televisions.
* Servers Set-Top Boxes.
* Workstations Digital Cameras.
* Storage MP3 Players.
* Cellular Handsets Video Games.
* Cellular Infrastructure Automobiles.
* Enterprise LANs Defense Wireless.
* LANs Many Others

As the future of the semiconductor industry is critical to your business, please review the report's outline on the following pages. IC Application Markets, 2009 Edition, continues ETPs leadership position in assessing the status and future of the industry.

Overview
The number of ICs shipped in 2008 hit 155 billion a three percent increase over 2007 and an astonishing 127 percent growth since the drop in 2001. However, a decline in ASPs in key product categories caused IC revenue to drop 4 percent in 2008, to a total of $209 billion.

As this report was being written in July 2009, it is painfully obvious that the entire semiconductor industry is going to have a double-digit decline in units and revenue in 2009, ETP believes that the decline will be about 19 percent. However, while only a few positive glimmers have surfaced to date, ETP believes that growth will return in 2010.