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 [Copy link]

　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 communications 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 accordingly.

　　China's analog IC market demand hits new high

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　　In 2005, the sales volume of China's analog IC market 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 decrease in the growth rate of the output of electronic complete products and the growth rate of the overall IC market size in 2005 compared with 2004.

　　Digital consumer products 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 popularizing very quickly and have huge market potential. For products such as LCD TVs and set-top boxes, the market penetration rate in China is not very high at present. The popularization 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 popular digital consumer electronics products in the current market, many new digital consumer products will appear one after another. The digital trend of consumer electronics products will prompt consumer electronics 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 great potential of industrial development, digital consumer electronics 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, portable electronic products have more and more functions, and the power consumption of the system has also increased. 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 and directly affected 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. This not only saves area, but also reduces the chip cost of electronic products.

　　In the future, in addition to those traditional analog ICs such as data conversion and power amplification that have wide applications and strong versatility, many analog ICs that are dedicated or applied to a specific field will not exist independently.

　　As analog ICs are continuously integrated, the classification and division of analog IC products have changed, and this change will 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 at the signal receiving and transmitting end, which directly affects the market 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 electronic product production capacity will continue to shift to China, and many key products in China's 3C field will maintain a steady growth trend. Currently, many internationally renowned electronic companies are preparing to increase their investment in China.

　　After several years of development, the speed of global electronic product capacity transfer will inevitably slow down gradually. Coupled with the continuous expansion of the base of China's analog IC market, the growth rate of China's analog IC market will show a gradual slowdown trend starting from 2008, 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. Yue Ting, analyst of CCID Consulting Semiconductor Division