If this prediction is true, it means that the automotive IC market will achieve double-digit growth for three consecutive years.
Figure 1
In the past few years, the global automotive IC market has witnessed an astonishing development.
Although it fell by 2.5% in 2015 after an increase of 11.5% in 2014, there was a strong rebound of 10.6% in 2016.
It is worth noting that in 2015, the decline in the automotive IC market was mainly due to the decline of the key automotive IC products, such as microprocessors, analog ICs, DRAM, flash memory, general-purpose and dedicated logic ICs, and ASP. The annual steady growth of the automotive IC market.
IC Insights’ latest automotive IC market forecast shows that by 2021, the automotive IC market will grow to US$43.6 billion, which means that the compound annual growth rate from 2017 to 2021 is 12.5%, which is six major The highest growth rate in the IC segment. (Figure 2)
Figure II
In general, the automotive IC market will only account for 7.5% of the total IC market in 2018. By 2021, this proportion will increase to 9.3%. Among them, analog ICs, including general-purpose analog ICs and special-purpose vehicle analog ICs, will account for In 2018, 45% of the automotive IC market, MCU accounted for 23%.
On the other hand, due to the acquisition of automotive analog IC suppliers in recent years, the number of large manufacturers has gradually decreased. Among them, acquisitions that affect the automotive analog IC market include: In 2015, NXP acquired Freescale, and now Qualcomm is planning to acquire NXP; In 2017, ADI acquired Infineon and Renesas acquired Intersil.