Consumer electronics still dominate the MCU market

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In 2006, driven by the continued rapid development of consumer electronics manufacturing, China's MCU market continued to maintain a good development momentum, with the growth rate continuing to remain at a high level of more than 25%. From the perspective of application areas, on the one hand, consumer electronics products are stillIt is the main area of demand in China's MCU market, and its share is still over 40%; on the other hand, with the rapid development of China's automotive electronics industry, the share of automotive applications in the MC market continues to rise.

Consumer electronics remains the largest application area

From the overall perspective of the electronic product manufacturing industry, China has always maintained a leading position in the demand for MCUs, as it is a major consumer electronics industry. In 2006, this development trend of the consumer electronics manufacturing industry was still obvious. At the same time, the upgrade of China's consumer electronics product manufacturing and consumer demand was very rapid. Therefore, on the one hand, it has driven the continued rapid growth of China's consumer MCU market. On the other hand, the product upgrade of the Chinese market's demand for MCUs is obvious, and high-performance MCUs are growing rapidly. However, other industries such as network communications, industrial control, office automation, and equipment industry have higher requirements for core control chips. MCUs can only complete simple control functions and cannot meet their technical requirements. Therefore, the scale of demand for MCUs is relatively low. In 2006, consumer electronics still played the role of the largest demand area for MCUs, driving the overall market to continue to grow.

But at the same time, we must also see that although the manufacturing of digital consumer products has grown rapidly in recent years, traditional consumer electronics products such as CRT color TVs, air conditioners, and refrigerators are still the main force in the consumer MCU market, and are also an important force affecting the overall market development.

Emerging Application Markets for Automotive Electronics Are Rising

In recent years, with the rapid development of China's automobile industry, the automotive electronics industry has also shown a good development momentum. In 2006, automotive applications continued to play the role of an emerging force in China's MCU market and became a new growth point in China's MCU market.

In 2006, the booming development of China's car industry attracted more and more automotive electronics supporting enterprises to carry out localized production, and automobiles continued to use electronic products to drive their own product upgrades. In the automotive field, embedded control systems are known as the heart of the car. As the key to the control system, MCU is increasingly used in automobiles. At present, the main applications of MCU in automotive electronics cover five major areas, namely: automotive power system control, body control system, safety control system, driving system control and automotive information system.

In 2002 and 2003, China's car production increased dramatically, and China's automotive electronics market also entered a period of super-fast development. Since 2004, China's automotive industry has entered a period of steady development, and China's automotive electronics market has also slowed down its pace of progress, and the entire market has entered a stable and rapid growth stage. Compared with 2005, the share of automotive applications in China's MCU market in 2006 has increased, but the growth rate is slightly lower than the level in 2005.

8-bit products are still the mainstream in the market

From the perspective of the global MCU market, in 2006, the growth of 8-bit MCUs was slow among the MCU product segments, which was mainly caused by the continuous decline in product prices. While sales volume increased, the growth in sales revenue was very limited. In contrast, in recent years, the Chinese 8-bit MCU market has maintained a high growth rate of more than 30%. In 2006, 8-bit MCUs accounted for more than half of the total sales of the Chinese MCU market.

The 8-bit MCU occupies a mainstream position in the Chinese market, which is mainly determined by the market demand. In my country, the production and demand of consumer products are very huge, such as color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, etc. Most of these products have relatively simple requirements for MCUs and are relatively more sensitive to MCU prices. Therefore, 8-bit MCUs and even 4-bit MCUs are the main products in this category, which has created a huge market demand for 8-bit MCUs in China. At the same time, the rapid growth of the automotive electronics field, the main market for 8-bit MCU applications, is also a powerful factor in driving this market to maintain its mainstream position. In addition, as suppliers continue to improve their product performance and enrich product functions, 8-bit MCUs have further seized part of the market share of 16-bit MCUs by relying on their own price advantages, lower power consumption and smaller size, thereby further consolidating the market position of mainstream products.

Integration becomes an important direction for MCU development

As new electronic devices have an increasing demand for network and wireless functions, MCU products integrating more and more analog functions and new peripheral circuits have become an important direction for MCU product development in 2006. For MCU products, integrating appropriate functions is an important development direction, and market demand is the key factor in determining which functions MCU integrates. From the development in recent years, in order to adapt to this trend, more and more MCU suppliers are paying more attention to cooperation with system manufacturers, so as to more accurately understand customers' needs for MCU integrated functions and further enhance the market competitiveness of their own products.

In addition, Flash MCU's share in the market has further increased due to its advantages such as ease of use, small size, and relatively simple entire system. It is expected that as Flash MCU technology continues to mature, its application areas will become more and more extensive, and it will have good development prospects in the fields of automotive electronics, industrial control, etc.

niceday5

I benefited from it. Thank you hah

leslie

Consumer electronics is so popular that it dominates many devices.

cloudy313

It should become more and more popular, HOHO~

kinvenlee

What is the development trend of 32-bit ARM? How is its application in consumer electronics?

q3210497

MCU is the future development direction, and more and more people will have a clearer understanding of what MCU is.