What Segments Contributes More to 2011 Semiconductor Rise

2011 might be still a good year for electronic markets though there are many nature disasters across the world. It is said that theglobal semiconductor revenue in 2011 is projected to amount to $325.9 billion, up from $304.1 billion in 2010, according to a newly revised forecast. The previous IHS iSuppli outlook released in April predicted revenue would rise by 7 percent for the year.

Dale Ford, senior vice president for semiconductor market intelligence at HIS said, thanks to the hardiness of the global electronics supply chain, the semiconductor industry is set for a year of solid growth in 2011.

The healthy rise in 2011 comes on the heels of the torrid 32.2 percent increase in 2010 when the market rebounded from the recession-driven downturn of 2009. Following the 7.2 percent increase in 2011, growth will then moderate during the following two years, rising by 4.8 and 4.0 percent, before accelerating to 8.0 percent and 7.5 percent expansions during the next two years.

Let’s come to see what factors have make contributions to this shipment rising.

One factor is theyear’s strongest performers in Semiconductors, Spurred by consumer demand including the 3 segments as follows:

First, also the most important one is the wireless and mobile segments. The strongest semiconductor demand growth in 2011 will be driven by the wireless and mobile segments, led by the proliferation and high demand for devices such as media tablets, smart phones, e-book readers, solid state drives and handheld video game players. Because of this, wireless communications will generate the strongest increase in semiconductor revenue of all chip application markets in 2011, with a 17.6 percent increase.

Second, the mobile PCs field. Despite the popularity of tablets such as Apple Inc.’s iPad, mobile PCs also will be a healthy contributor to semiconductor growth this year. This will help make the data processing category the third-fastest growing semiconductor application market in 2011, with growth of 6.2 percent.

Third, the smaller industrial electronics segment. The much smaller industrial electronics segment will be the second-fastest growing semiconductor application market, with revenue rising by 7.3 percent. Sectors achieving slower expansion this year will include consumer electronics at 3.1 percent and automotive electronics at 3.0 percent.

The other factor is the image sensors that leads market growth. The fastest-growing semiconductor product segments in 2011 will be image  sensors, NAND flashmemory, light-emitting diodes, microprocessors, discrete components, sensors and general-purpose analog integrated circuits.

Because of these products, the collective revenue is projected to rise by more than 12 percent in 2011, with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors leading all products with 36 percent growth. We should be still optimistic that there is another half good year for semiconductor industry.

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