Smart speaker market size of 13 billion US dollars | Taiwan's supply chain grab large orders

According to research institutes, intelligent speakers in the next two to three years, the average annual growth rate can reach 30% of the high growth is expected in 2020 global smart speaker shipments will be more than 100 million units, the market size of 130 Hundreds of millions of dollars are the products that have the chance to challenge hundreds of millions of Taiwan in the next market after smart machines. Both the output and the output are the places where the military strategists contend. The business opportunities are staggering.

At present, the market is dominated by Apple's HomePod, Amazon's Echo Dot and Google Home. Its market share is more than half of the smart speaker market in the world. Among them, Amazon earns the market share of about 55% due to the earliest development of smart speakers. Google market share of less than 20%, Apple Smart Speaker market less than a month, but the market share has reached 3%, is rapidly expanding.

The legal person said that this year, each smart speaker new features continue to evolve, equipped with voice assistant and networking capabilities is the basic equipment, how to make smart speakers 'service premium' and efficient home appliances connected to the device is the future of the brand Main battlefield fight, Taiwan factory due to provide components and foundry manufacturing, with the market size, performance is expected to rain exposed James.

It is reported that the current cut into intelligent speaker foundry Including Inventec, Hon Hai, the supplier of acoustic components are the United States law, Kang control; chip, Realtek, MediaTek supply intelligent speaker processor, the new Tang shipping microcontroller ; Good dimension is to provide the connector, the standard quasi-shipment smart speakers required chassis.

The latest research from Strategy Analytics shows that the smart speaker market has taken a major step toward the mainstream market in 2017. Shipments in 2017 reached 32 million units in the year, an increase of over 300% year-on-year, with every 10 smart units sold Speakers in Google and Amazon accounted for 9. Google's market share in Q4 increased to 35%, while Amazon's share dropped to just over half.

It is noteworthy that recently it came out that Apple will launch the second half of the cheap version of the HomePod, the lowest price of less than half of HomePod just listed, to challenge Amazon dominance in smart speakers.