In 2010, China's analog IC sales reached nearly 200 billion yuan

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In 2010, China's analog IC sales reached nearly 200 billion yuan

July 19, 2006 15:18 China Electronics News

Yue Ting, analyst of CCID Consulting Semiconductor Division, said 　　that in 2005, China's analog IC market continued to grow rapidly, with annual sales reaching 61.7 billion yuan. Analog ICs are widely used in electronic products. With the development of wireless communication and portable products, analog ICs play an increasingly important role in electronic products. In 2005, the output of many products in China's 3C field increased to a certain extent, and the market demand for analog ICs also increased. 　　China's analog IC market demand hit a new high. 　　In 2005, China's analog IC market sales increased by 32.1% compared with 2004. The growth rate of 32.1% was 11 percentage points lower than that of 2004, which was mainly due to the fact that in 2005, both the output growth of electronic complete products and the growth of the overall IC market size decreased compared with 2004. 　　Digital consumer products have become a new application hotspot . 　　In 2005, the market potential of analog ICs for consumer products was gradually released. Among domestic consumer electronic products, the fastest growing are digital consumer electronic products, such as LCD TVs, digital cameras and set-top boxes. These products are currently popular and have huge market potential. For products such as LCD TVs and set-top boxes, the current market penetration rate in China is not very high. The popularization process of these products will inevitably promote their production to continue to grow at a high speed, which undoubtedly provides market opportunities for analog ICs. In addition to the 　　more popular digital consumer electronic products on the market, many emerging digital consumer products will appear one after another. The digitalization trend of consumer electronic products will prompt consumer electronic products to enter a period of product renewal, which will play a positive role in both the consumer electronics market and the development of the industry. It is expected that in the next few years, due to the full potential of industrial development, digital consumer electronic products will become one of the highlights of analog IC applications. 　　Low power consumption and high efficiency are the direction 　　. As an important type of IC product, analog IC is widely used in power management, power amplification, data conversion and driving. Therefore, analog IC directly affects power-related parameters such as power consumption and power efficiency of electronic products. 　　As global energy consumption continues to increase, energy saving has become one of the important indicators of electronic products, especially for portable products. Under certain battery technology conditions, the power consumption of electronic products directly affects important performance indicators such as standby time. In recent years, with the development of technology, the functions of portable electronic products have become more and more, and the power consumption of the system has also increased accordingly. Taking mobile phone products as an example, most of the mobile phones currently produced in China are color screen mobile phones, and the proportion of mobile phones equipped with MP3, MP4 and other functions is also increasing. This product upgrade has greatly increased the power consumption of the product, which directly affects the standby time of the mobile phone. In order to ensure that the standby time, an important performance indicator of the mobile phone, does not drop significantly, in addition to using high-end batteries, the application of high-performance power management, RF and other analog ICs can reduce the power consumption of the mobile phone to a certain extent and improve power efficiency. 　　In recent years, the market demand for high-performance analog ICs has continued to increase, and major semiconductor companies have also launched high-efficiency, low-power analog IC products and solutions that help reduce power loss. It is expected that in the next few years, analog IC products will continue to upgrade, and low power consumption and high efficiency will always be the direction of analog IC development. 　　The trend of integration is unstoppable. 　　Integration has always been one of the main trends in the development of IC products, and analog IC is no exception. Integration can reduce the manufacturing cost of chips, reduce the area occupied by chips, and save some matching circuits between chips, so as to simplify the circuit design process. 　　With the development of CMOS analog technology, more and more analog circuits are integrated into large-scale digital circuits, the proportion of hybrid ICs is increasing year by year, and many low-power analog ICs are integrated into the core chips of electronic complete products. In this way, not only the area is saved, but also the chip cost of electronic products is reduced. 　　In the future, in addition to traditional analog ICs such as data conversion and power amplification that are widely used and highly versatile, many analog ICs dedicated or applied to a specific field will not exist independently. 　　With the continuous integration of analog ICs, the classification and division of analog IC products have changed, and this change will also directly affect the overall scale of the analog IC market. Since many analog circuits such as power management are integrated into the core ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), ASSP (application-specific standard circuit) or SoC in electronic products, this will inevitably lead to a decrease in the sales volume of the analog IC. For example, in mobile phones, most of the baseband chips of mobile phones currently integrate power management and some audio processing functions, and many baseband chips integrate some RF circuits of the signal receiving and transmitting end, which directly affects the demand for analog ICs such as independent power management and RF for such mobile phones. 　　The market will continue to grow rapidly in the future 　　. In the next few years, the global production capacity of electronic products will continue to shift to China, and many key products in China's 3C field will maintain a steady growth trend. At present, many internationally renowned electronic companies are preparing to increase their investment in China. 　　After several years of development, the speed of global electronic product production capacity transfer will inevitably slow down gradually. Coupled with the continuous expansion of the base of China's analog IC market size, starting from 2008, the growth rate of China's analog IC market size will show a gradual slowdown trend, but it will still maintain an annual compound growth rate of more than 20%. In addition, the continuous integration of analog ICs will also have a certain impact on the market size of analog ICs. 　　It is estimated that by 2010, the scale of China's analog IC market will reach nearly 200 billion yuan.