China's strong demand ignites the global MCU market
The microcontroller is most important assembly on the semi-conductive market, under the circumstances that the electronic consumer products deepen the era of global social life background, it is upgrading constantly, meets strong market demand, and been monopolizing this considerable market all the time. China, as setting up the manufacturing center outside consumption electronic product and PC of global maximum, naturally, become the microcontroller unit (MCU) used for this kind of products Maximum single buyer. China's demand promotes the development of market of global microcontroller!
ISuppli Company predicts, the global MCU market will rise to 3,600 million dollars from 2,400 million dollars in 2007 in 2012, it is 9% to compound the annual growth. China accounts for 14.5% of the global MCU market in 2007. MCU business volume growth rate used for data processing, car and industry electron is up to two figures in 2007, the business volume of a field of data processing increases by 31% compared with 2006.
China MCU market's trend
The research institution of the market studies the materials to reveal, the global microcontroller market scale is quite great, but because microcontroller cheap, and easy to reduce selling unit price with technical progress of the process for preparing, it is estimated by 2009, the global microcontroller market scale will continue soaring with 4.43% slow growth rate, market, MCU of China, occupy the leading place in the whole world lasting location data handling equipment take maximum share in China MCU market at present, this is because China is the global manufacturing center set up outside flat panel display, intelligent card and PC. ISuppli Company predicts, MCU business volume correlated to data processing in China will rise to more than 1,200 million dollars from 699 million dollars in 2007 in 2012, it is 12% to compound the annual growth. The second largest MCU application of China is a consumption electronic product, it is estimated MCU business volume of this field will rise to 971 million dollars from 690 million dollars in 2007 in 2012, it is 7% to compound the annual growth. ISuppli Company predicts, the car and electronic market of industry will promote the lasting growth of China MCU market.
The electronic manufacturers of the international car are expanding one's own productivity in China actively, Chinese manufacturers are entering this market too. MCU business volume of the electronic field of the car will rise to 480 million dollars from 274 million dollars in 2007 in 2012, it is 12% to compound the annual growth. MCU business volume in industry's electronic field will rise to 743 million dollars from 579 million dollars in 2007 in 2012.
MCU supplier integrates more function characteristics in goods in process, in order to satisfy the demands of consumers better. These characteristics include supporting USB, LCD driver, analog to digital converter, and is used for offering TCP/IP,etc. communication agreement that MCU connected ability with Internet. In addition, increasingly many MCU has non-volatile memory on boards, it is mainly flashing memory. The non-volatile memory of MCU can adopt MRAM and FRAM too.
Finally, because employ engineers to adopt more complicated device in existing system design of future generation day by day, MCU market continues carrying out the transition to 16 and 32-bit microcomputer. This requires semi-conductive supplier to offer and cover the a full range of products of 8, 16 and 32-bit microcomputer MCU.
The development trend of the microcontroller: The market share of the microcontroller of the 32-bit microcomputer will increase fast
On one hand, if according to selling number of different microcontrollers, can find several trends, it is 8 main share that microcontroller occupies the market of microcontroller for a long time at first, and begin to slightly waver after 2007. 8 outloading numbers of microcontroller all accounted for seven to more than 80% of the whole microcontroller outloading number in the past, from behind 2007, 8 leading status of microcontroller glide gradually, the intersection of outloading and number its glide until 70% following after 2010 while being proportion of to market of whole microcontroller.
The second is that we can observe in not 8 high-order microcontroller fields of microcontroller employ, the trend that the microcontroller of the 32-bit microcomputer replaces 16 bit microcontrollers continuously is quite obvious, the microcontroller of the 32-bit microcomputer surmounted 16 microcontrollers for the first time in 2006, the accounting for rate has occupied the second, its number of outloading will rise continuously at the same time, by 2010, the 32-bit microcomputer microcontroller will have an opportunity to be up to 32.62% of the taking rate of market, become another important microcontroller application.
The gradual rise of the microcontroller of the 32-bit microcomputer is mainly because every electrical home appliances and consumption electronic product need more stronger functions, and complicated audio-visual application, intelligence judge with controlled field needing the intersection of efficiency and strong processor too, so the microcontroller of the 32-bit microcomputer will replace present 16 microcontrollers gradually it is the trend that can be confirmed.













