2013 Global semiconductor component sales or over 300 billion USD

Lead: "Forbes" web site August 25 published Carl Johnson (Carl Johnson) commentary, said some institutions early in the 1990 to predict IC sales to 2013 will be more than 300 billion U.S. dollars.　　Now Eelctroiq has released its latest forecasts that the strongest IC growth area will come from automotive chip demand. The following is the full text of the article: Eelctroiq released the latest semiconductor component (IC) sales forecasts, and as early as the middle of the 1990, the semiconductor industry has been circulating similar forecasts. The agency's latest forecast is that IC sales will exceed $300 billion trillion in 2013. In 1995, IC market sales for the first time more than 100 billion U.S. dollars, to 2005 to reach 200 billion U.S. dollars. IC sales cost from 100 billion to 200 billion dollars for 10 years, and from 200 billion dollars to 300 billion dollars will take only 8 years. "I believe that Gartner (then called Dataquest) first proposed a forecast that IC annual sales would reach about 300 billion dollars." After the dotcom bust, few institutions were willing to take the risk.　　It is troublesome to make long-term forecasts in the context of uncertainty in the economic environment. And IC's strongest growth will occur: "The most significant growth in IC applications will come from automotive chips." The 2011 analog product chip market will grow by 32%, and the growth of automotive special-purpose Logic/microprocessor peripherals (MPR) and 32-bit microprocessor units (MCU) will also be close to that level. IC Requirements for advanced Security systems, driver information systems and engine control systems will drive the automotive IC market to stay active, and this robust demand will remain in place until 2015. "What a wonderful prospect it is!" Leisurely）