Wireless Sensor Networks Are Defining a $Trillion IoT Market

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of Wireless Sensor Networks Report Set covering 50 wireless Internet of Things (IoT) markets including Smart Homes, Smart Buildings, Smart Energy, Smart Lighting, Smart Cities, Industrial Automation, Health & Fitness, Wearables, Personal Sensors and Others.

Wireless sensor networking (WSN) is one of the most disruptive and essential technologies for the Internet of Things.

Hundreds of millions of wireless sensing and control devices has changed the Internet.  Within the next ten years, the IoT market will grow to billions of sensing points, transforming cloud computing infrastructure, mobile device form factors and the global information economy.

“Cloud-connected wireless sensor networks are fundamental building blocks of the Internet of Things,” says Mareca Hatler, ON World’s research director.  “From remote digital oilfields to ever smarter homes, wireless sensor networks are enabling new sensing and control applications that wouldn’t exist otherwise.”

Industrial WSN early adopters have contributed to advances such as wireless mesh networking, power management, time synchronization, IP smart objects and energy harvesting.  ON World’s recent survey with 220 industrial automation professionals found that three quarters are planning or deploying WSN solutions.

Smart lighting is another emerging market with dozens of startups and new entrants.  The majority of these are focused on wireless mesh lighting control systems, wireless LED light bulbs/lamps, smart LED drivers and IoT platforms that support a growing number of WSN applications.  Retail is one of the fastest growing channels for residential smart lighting products. According to ON World’s evaluation of 30,000 product reviews, there are over 400 wireless lighting control products with sales growing by more than 70% in the first half of 2014 compared with the same period in 2013.

The smart home has hundreds of new entrants over the past few years. In addition, investments and acquisitions have accelerated including Icontrol Networks and Alarm.com that have each raised over $100 million in venture funds as well as Nest Labs and SmartThings that were acquired for $3 billion (Google) and $200 million (Samsung) respectively. Mobile and consumer electronics companies are creating IoT smart home platforms enabled by technologies such as WiFi, ZigBee, Thread and Bluetooth Smart.

Wearables such as smart watches, smart glasses, jewelry and health/fitness trackers are some of the largest and fastest growing WSN markets. Startups with wearables, wireless lighting controls and smart home systems are also benefiting from crowd funding sites that regularly achieve their funding goals.

In 2018, global annual revenues for WSN markets will be $102 billion when device shipments will reach 930 million at this time.

The recently published Wireless Sensor Networks Report Set includes three reports:

• Wireless Sensor Networks Markets


• 802.15.4 & ZigBee 


• Mobile Sensing Wearables

Based on thousands of interviews and surveys with executives across the whole global WSN value chain, these reports include analysis and in-depth market size forecasts on 50 unique WSN market segments, competitive analysis and recent primary research with end users, vendors and suppliers.

Electronics.ca Publications offers 50% off 3 reports (3 PDFs, 2 PPTs and 2 Excel Workbooks)

328 pages (238 figures and 172 tables) covering 50 unique wireless sensing and control markets.
Price: $4999.00 (USD) – multi-user/corporate license ($9497.00 for each report purchased separately)

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Wireless Sensor Networks Are Defining a $Trillion IoT Market

Thin Film and Printed Battery (TFB) Market Opportunities

Thin film and printed battery (TFB) technology is relatively nascent and is being used to evaluate potential opportunities in several different applications.

• Most applications are in the pilot stage of development, with approximately a few hundred thousand in unit shipments. In turn, the volume of units shipped is limited for both semiconductors and TFB applications.


• The popular battery form factor used in most devices is coin cell, and the market for semiconductors in these types of devices is quite strong. The shift from coin cell to a flexible or a printed battery, however, is delayed by a number of factors—initial high pricing remains one of the most important.


• This study discusses the drivers and restraints, revenue, and Mega Trends for semiconductors in the TFB market, across North America; Europe; and Asia-Pacific and the Rest of World (ROW).

Executive Summary

• Partnerships between semiconductor companies, research institutions, material developers, or equipment suppliers will help optimize the cost against the value curve.


• The healthcare devices market will be a major driver for growth from 2013–2016.


• Asia-Pacific and the ROW provide great scope for growth in low-power semiconductors over the forecast period.


• Price issues and manufacturing challenges associated with TFB technology are amongst the major factors limiting high-volume shipment of semiconductors in TFB applications.


• Economies of scale in this market are expected towards the end of 2016, after which volume production and shipment will be high.

For more details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information visit: Analysis of the Global Semiconductors in Thin Film and Printed Battery Market.

 

Thin Film and Printed Battery (TFB) Market Opportunities

Powering the Internet of Things: New Technologies for New Markets

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a new report entitled “Power Sources for the Internet-of-Things: Markets and Strategies”. The Internet-of-Things (IoT), a proliferation of multitudes of interconnected sensors and processors, is arguably the most disruptive shift in technology since the origination of the Internet itself. It’s a complex universe spanning communications, identification, location tracking, and security, enabled by multitudes of electronic equipment & devices and sensors.

Powering the Internet of Things

Several technology advancements have been driving the IoT. The brains of these devices (embedded chips) are becoming more sophisticated and cheaper, as have reliable communications capabilities. Another reason: cloud storage for data and applications. And as the IoT expands, there are huge new opportunities for manufacturers of power source devices to make it all run.

Why Conventional Batteries Won’t Work in the IoT

Let’s look at the key criteria that are pretty common to the various types of IoT devices and functionalities:

–    Various shapes and sizes

–    Low power requirements

–    High range and frequency

–    Increasingly interconnected

To align with those criteria, power sources for IoT devices will need several key features of their own:

–    Small/thin size and flexible shape

–    Wireless connectivity — able to charge a device on the go, easy to use anywhere

–    Able to detect and select available energy resources (for wireless charging)

–    Self-recharging, never needing to be replaced, with lifetime comparable to the device they’re in

–    Environmentally friendly, since IoT devices are used everywhere in all environments.

Consider this: the energy density of the lithium-ion battery in Apple’s iPhone 5 is 142 mAh/cm3. That’s 63% higher than conventional Li-ion batteries from nine years ago, and is far outpacing the ~5%/year energy density rate for Li-ion batteries. For all IoT devices including and beyond smartphones, future power source requirements — rigid use (cycle life, specific energy and power), high tolerance capacity, flexibility (including wearability) — don’t bode well for bulky conventional batteries.

IoT Power Source Alternatives

Conventional batteries can’t meet those IoT power-source requirements in most cases — but other power sources can.

Inductive power supplies: Basically this involves wirelessly transferring energy from one device (transmitter or charging station) to another (receiver or portable device). Wireless charging was initially introduced for smartphones and still revolves around this utility; by the end of this year nearly all smartphones and tablets are expected to support it. Other inductive power applications include transcutaneous energy transfer systems in surgically implanted devices (e.g. artificial hearts) and environment-monitoring robots.

Inductive coupling is typically used to power RFID tags (IoT and RFID have common origins and extensive overlap). Such “passive” battery-free RFID sensor tags have an “on-demand” reliable source of energy, with no dependence on environmental conditions for the sensor to transmit data. They can be embedded in concrete (e.g. walls and pillars), inside piping systems, sealed within enclosures, and at many relatively inaccessible locations — and they will never require battery-change maintenance.

With increasingly vast numbers of wirelessly connected IoT devices, the technology to power them is likely will evolve from inductive to resonant — and from charging one device at a time to charging multiple devices concurrently. This could open up a myriad of IoT applications from smartphones to smart cars.

Thin-film and printed batteries

Thin-film batteries are being considered for, and even replacing conventional batteries in, several IoT applications such as smartphones, sensors, RFID tags, and smart cards and labels (including “smart packaging for food and medicine). Printed batteries are somewhat further away from commercial deployment for IoT applications such as electronic shelf labels and “smart shelves,” though there are some efforts to bring products to the market. 3D printing of microbatteries is one intriguing area of research, with batteries as small as a grain of sand; another is in combining thin-film material layers and coatings with textiles.

Energy harvesting

This is arguably the most important sector for powering IoT devices, encompassing several technologies to facilitate ambient energy conversion and storage: PV solar cells, piezoelectric, thermoelectric, pyroelectric, geo-magnetic, electrostatic, and microwave conversion. The varying nature of ambient energy sources also means IoT wireless sensor nodes require microbatteries as backup energy sources, rechargeable once the nodes have harvested enough ambient energy.

Where IoT Power Sources Must Improve

Power source options for IoT devices currently have a number of hurdles to overcome:

Power efficiency: Technology for inductive and energy harvesting falls short of conventional wired charging in terms of power transfer efficiency, roughly 70% vs. 85%. That means it’s significantly slower to charge a device, and/or requires tradeoffs in size and cost to close that gap.

Range: For wireless power (inductive/resonant coupling or energy harvesting), the range to devices must cover at least an entire room, and eventually a house.

Frequency choice: Selecting frequency to be compatible with charging standards around electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility has been an issue for wireless charging technology.

Standards compliance and security: There are more than a dozen types of wireless communication technologies woven together to support the Internet of Things. Broad adoption of wireless charging will require standards compliance across several areas: frequency, induced electric field, induced current density, and specific absorption rate. This is a major issue, solvable by integrating them all into a single standard — which also will solve security issues.

Between the most ubiquitous of those wireless technologies — Bluetooth, WiFi, and ZigBee — we see ZigBee expanding as the preferred protocol for IoT devices in terms of cost and efficiency.

Cost: Nearly all the devices in the IoT are small and low-cost, therefore so must be their power sources. Conventional chargers are generally provided with devices at no extra cost (or at least a transparent one), but wireless chargers generally come extra at cost, and often it’s substantial (think $50 or more). Even thin-film and energy-harvesting batteries come at a higher cost than conventional power supplies.

Basically, two things need to happen for these power source technologies to usurp conventional batteries and take over the IoT: deliver better efficiency at lower cost, and create/adopt a wireless charging standard common for all devices and charging ports. If those happen, and limitations of these alternate power sources are overcome, then we see these technologies becoming dominant to power IoT devices.

By the Numbers: The Evolution of IoT Power Source Markets

IoT power-source technologies such as thin-film and printed batteries, energy harvesting modules, small flexible solar photovoltaic panels, and thermoelectric sources have enjoyed niche success and marginal revenues up to now. With the IoT’s emergence, however, NanoMarkets sees these products potentially generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenues.

Thin-film and printed batteries make up the vast majority of today’s total $57.1 million market for IoT power sources. Most of that is for mobile phones, considered the “eyes and ears” of applications connecting all the other IoT devices and networks, and mobile phones will continue to represent the main IoT application for these batteries. However, we anticipate several other applications — notably smart cards, semiconductor/computing, and wearable electronics — each will blossom into hundred-million-dollar battery markets by the end of this decade.

The biggest growth opportunities over the next several years in IoT power sources addressed by inductive and energy harvesting technologies. Inductive power sources, almost exclusively used in wireless chargers, are barely a $5 million market today, but we look for this segment to crack the $100 million mark by 2018 and accelerate to $760 million by 2021. This is largely due to adoption in RFID tags, a segment that will surge to a $100 million market by 2019 and $583 million by 2021.

We see energy harvesting power sources remaining a small ($7 million) market through 2015, but then spiking to $41.5 million in 2016 thanks to rapid uptake for sensors/sensor networks. From there we see energy harvesting devices really establishing their IoT stride, to $161 million by 2018 and ultimately $557 million by 2021. Within that period we also anticipate the long-awaited arrival of wearable devices, ramping from next to nothing today to $82 million 2018 and a $200 million market by 2021.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site.  View the report: Power Sources for the Internet-of-Things: Markets and Strategies.

 

 

Powering the Internet of Things: New Technologies for New Markets

Worldwide and U.S. Smartphone Display 2014–2018 Forecast

This study examines the current state and future trends of smartphone displays worldwide and in the United States. The smartphone display has grown from the simple function of showing messages and emails to showing more dynamic content, including games, applications, social networking, and multimedia. As the demand in smartphone functionality has grown, so has the size of displays on smartphones, with some displays rivaling 7in. tablets. The trend toward large-screen smartphones will continue unabated. Smartphones with screen sizes between 5.5in. and 7.0in. certainly receive their share of attention, but we believe that the mass market will gravitate mostly to smaller sizes, namely 4 to ˂5in. and 5 to ˂5.5in. These are easier to hold and carry compared with their large-screen cousins. Between these two screen size bands, we expect the latter 5 to ˂5.5in. group to gain greater salience as vendors stretch the display to the edges of the smartphone without enlarging the device as a whole. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: Worldwide and U.S. Smartphone Display 2014–2018 Forecast.

Tablet & Smart Phone Semiconductor Revenue and Shipment Forecast

Leading suppliers of high end smartphones include Samsung, Apple, Huawei, and LG. New research estimates that over $35 billion of 2013 worldwide semiconductor revenue was contributed to sales of products used in this high volume application.  In 2013 close to a billion smartphones were shipped worldwide and this market is expected to continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19 percent over the next five years.

The tablet market is expected to cool off somewhat in 2014 in terms of shipments.  Over 200 million tablets were shipped in 2013 which was an increase of 59 percent from 2012.  This year we  expect tablet shipments to increase by 10 percent this year.  The opportunity for semiconductor suppliers in the tablet market is expected to reach $13 billion and grow significantly to over $25 billion by 2019.

This tracker provides semiconductor revenue and shipment forecasts for products used in smartphone and tablet applications.  Forecasts are provided by region and by product type as well as a split by application type.  Market share is included for the semiconductor suppliers as well as the OEMs that produce the applications.  Estimated spending by each OEM is also included.

Tablet & Smart Phone Semiconductor Revenue and Shipment Forecast

Tablet & Smart Phone Semiconductor Revenue and Shipment Forecasts

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site.  View the report: “2014 Smart Phone Market and Tablet Tracker“.

Significant Findings Include:

• Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Forecast by Product


• Worldwide Smart Phone and Tablet Semiconductor Market Forecast (Revenue, Units, and ASPs)


• Worldwide Smart Phone and Tablet Semiconductor Quarterly Market Forecast (Revenue, Units, and ASPs)


• Worldwide Smart Phone and Tablet Semiconductor Revenue Forecast by Segment


•  Worldwide Smart Phone Semiconductor Market Forecast (Revenue, Units, and ASPs)


• Worldwide Smart Phone Semiconductor Quarterly Market Forecast (Revenue, Units, and ASPs)


• Worldwide Tablet Semiconductor Market Forecast (Revenue, Units, and ASPs)


• Worldwide Tablet Semiconductor Quarterly Market Forecast (Revenue, Units, and ASPs)

Tablet & Smart Phone Semiconductor Revenue and Shipment Forecast

2014 Performance Analog Market Tracker

Performance analog products include high speed, precision, and high efficiency products classified as operational amplifiers, interface, comparators, power ICs, and Analog ASSPs. This market is growing faster than the overall analog market with a compound annual growth rate of 8 percent. This tracker provides forecasts for high performance analog products and also includes standard performance analog to provide an overall view of the analog market. Forecasts are provided by region, market segment and application market. Market share is also provided. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: 2014 Performance Analog Market Tracker.

Global Actuator Systems Market in Aviation

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled “Actuator Systems Market in Aviation – Market Analysis and Forecasts 2014 – 2019“.  The global actuator systems market in aviation is estimated to be $2,973.76 million by 2014. The aircraft actuators market is expected to register CAGR of 4.6% to reach $3,839.74 million by 2019.

In recent years, the concept of more electric aircraft pushed the development of electrical actuation systems to substitute hydraulic actuators in a broad range of applications such as flight control, landing gear, etc.

Electrical actuation technologies have to comply with demanding requirements concerning reliability, weight, and environmental conditions. Electric actuation use comes from customer and airworthiness requirements for clean and more environment friendly aircraft.

The use of actuators helps in aircraft maintenance. Airlines across the globe are looking for more efficient aircraft that can increase their net profit. The increasing fuel price is a major driving factor, forcing the aircraft manufactures to opt for more fuel efficient and more electric aircraft (MEA) concept. With the primary functions in the aircraft more powered by electrical system; rather than conventional Pneumatic and hydraulic system aircraft will be able to achieve reduced fuel burn, higher reliability, reduction in maintenance cost, and more dispatch availability. Many R&D programs are going on in this industry for saving fuel and enhancing operational efficiency.

The increase in aircraft orders and more aircraft manufacturers coming up in the industry is also a driver. However, the defense budget cuts would be a challenge. High growth regions are China, Russia, and North America; and many new programs are coming up from these regions. The deliveries of the aircrafts are also expected to increase by 2019.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site.  View the report:  Actuator Systems Market in Aviation – Market Analysis and Forecasts 2014 – 2019.

 

Global Actuator Systems Market in Aviation

ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 Enabling the Internet of Things

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled “802.15.4 & ZigBee: Enabling the Internet of Things“.  According to this report, ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 will play a dominant role in the fixed Wireless Sensor Network WSN market that is set to reach 1 billion annual unit shipments within the next five years.

Smart Energy continues to be the primary driver for the majority of fixed WSN markets.  Between 2012 and 2018, ZigBee and 802.15.4 based systems will make up 43% of the wireless chipsets used for smart metering, home and building energy management, distributed energy resources as well as lighting controls.

While mobile sensing markets will increase the fastest over the next five years, fixed WSN markets have a larger number of applications, higher profit margins and significant opportunities for services revenues. In fact, revenues from ZigBee/15.4 devices and associated equipment will reach $50 billion within the next few years.

ZigBee market outlook for the smart home is brighter now that the Connected Lighting Alliance has chosen ZigBee Light Link as the standard for residential lighting. In particular, ZigBee Light Link has become the preferred communications technology for residential LED lighting. Over the past year, consumer adoption of wireless LED light bulbs increased by 270% and ZigBee-enabled bulbs made up the largest portion of the sales.

In 2018, there will be 1 billion annual WSN chipsets shipped worldwide for fixed WSN markets. Although ZigBee is facing increasing competition from Bluetooth and WiFi, it will make up the majority of the shipments at this time.

In this report– our 10th edition– we analyze the evolving market forces, technology advances and competitive dynamics for 22 unique WSN markets and provide 5-year forecasts for 802.15.4/ZigBee and competing alternatives including WiFi, Bluetooth, Z-Wave, EnOcean, ANT and others.

Target Markets:

Market forces analysis of each of the major low power wireless sensing and control markets including the following:

Smart Metering & Distributed Energy Resources

Smart Home

Entertainment RF Controls

Medical, Health & Wellness

Sports & Fitness

Building Automation & Commercial Services

Industrial Automation, Logistics, Agriculture & Construction

Smart Cities

Personal Sensors

Retail, Automotive and Others

Application areas, or solutions, across each of the target markets above:

Energy/Metering

Lighting

Audio/Video Controls

Health & Fitness

Safety, security and environmental monitoring

Condition monitoring/asset management

Others

Technologies & Standards

• Extensive technology evaluation on 802.15.4 & ZigBee technologies including ZigBee PRO, ZigBee RF4CE, ZigBee IP, 6LoWPAN, ZigBee Green Power…

• And competing alternatives such as ANT, Bluetooth, WiFi, Z-Wave, EnOcean and others.

• Standards developments, emerging trends, and what it means for your critical stategic planning.

Market Sizing (2012-2018)

• Total addressable market sizing for wireless sensing and control and associated low power wireless applications.

•Global market size forecasts on ZigBee/15.4 RFIC/modules including the following breakdowns:

• Units

• Revenues

• Target Markets

• Application

• Protocol (15.4, RF4CE, ZigBee/PRO, Smart Energy)

• WSN Technology (15.4, WiFi, Bluetooth, EnOcean, Z-Wave and Others)

• Design Type (chipset vs RF module)

• Topology

• Frequency

• Geography

• In-depth analysis on the average sale price (ASP) per 15.4/ZigBee module (or the OEM cost equivalent for in-house chipset based designs)

The ZigBee/15.4 Value System

• Product segmentation: In-depth analysis and research data on over 100 companies that are having the biggest impact for the ZigBee/15.4 market today in the following segments:

Chipsets

RF Modules/Network stacks

Devices/Systems

Software/Cloud services

IT/Automation Platforms

• Market Shares: ZigBee and 802.15.4 chipset market shares by units shipped in 2012

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site.  View the report: “802.15.4 & ZigBee: Enabling the Internet of Things“.

 

ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 Enabling the Internet of Things

The Global Market for SoCs and Mobile Processing Platforms

Embedded system-on-chips (SoCs) will continue to displace traditional standalone CPUs/MPUs, DSPs, GPUs, and other processor types as OEMs look to consolidate functionality and connectivity with fewer chips. According to a new market report: “Global Market for SoCs and Mobile Processing Platforms”, the mobile phone market is the leading vertical in terms of revenue for embedded SoCs and mobile processors.

Key Findings:

• Between 2012 and 2017, the total embedded market for SoCs will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the low double-digits while the same market for mobile processors will grow at a rate in the high single digits for the same period.


• ARM is the major architecture used in embedded SoCs, but Intel’s new Atom and Quark SoCs and improved x86 microarchitectures should help the company penetrate low-power applications.


• The vast majority of embedded processors will be sold to the Asia-Pacific region and unit shipment and revenue shares for the region are expected to increase during the forecast period.


• Heterogeneous computing is changing the way in which vendors supply processors and accelerators to high-performance applications.


• The increasing use of core IP licensing models will allow SoC manufacturers to save on R&D and expand in other methods of differentiation such as software tooling.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site. View the report: “Global Market for SoCs and Mobile Processing Platforms“.

 

 

The Global Market for SoCs and Mobile Processing Platforms

Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Network Market Report

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a new report entitled Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Internet of Things (IoT) : Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020. The 2014 study has 640 pages, 266 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Network is used to implement the Internet of things and to monitor pipelines, oil wells, and healthcare patients to illustrate the variety of projects supported by these networks. Semiconductor wireless sensor networks are used for bridge monitoring, implementing the smart grid, implementing the Internet of things, and monitoring for security implementation. The systems are used to implement energy savings in homes and commercial buildings, almost anything can be monitored with sensors and tracked on a smart phone. Projects are ongoing.

With 9 billion devices connected to the Internet in 2014, phenomenal growth is likely to occur when that number rises to 100 billion by 2020. Businesses control devices with sensors and wireless sensor networks (WSNs).

The sensors connected to the Internet promise to bring a big data explosion. Much of the data will be discarded, as users get simply overwhelmed by vast volumes. Analytics will become popular inside the wireless sensor networks so that alerts are generated at the point of collection of data.

The issue is how to embed analytics into the wireless sensor network control units so that only the alert data needed is transmitted. Users of information need to be able to find, control, manage, and secure the information coming from sensors onto the network. Users need to analyze and exploit the information coming from sensors.

Advanced technologies for wireless sensor networks are associated with emerging ways of interconnecting devices that have never been connected before. Networking is based on leveraging the feasibility of making sensors work independently in groups to accomplish insight not otherwise available.

Advanced storage devices are emerging simultaneously with the energy harvesting devices that are economical, making sensor networks feasible. Storage devices can leverage the power captured by energy harvesting when sensors and devices are interconnected as a network.

Data storage technologies connected to the sensors are permitting far better control of the world around us, implementing vastly improved energy efficiency as lights and hearting are turned on and off just as needed. Wireless sensor networks implement cost-effective systems.

Wireless sensor networks are developing a market presence. They are set to power wireless sensor network proliferation. Independent sensor devices located almost anywhere have attained workable levels of efficiency.

The proliferation of apps on smart phones will drive growth of semiconductor wireless sensor networks markets because the sensors work directly as they are installed without excess labor and wiring that has been necessary previously, making the systems more convenient to install and run.

Healthy lifestyle choices can increase the length of DNA sequences found at the end of a person’s chromosomes and reverse aging. This discovery is likely to increase interest in monitoring and testing DNA sequences and looking at the ends of the chromosomes. This discovery is likely to increase a shift toward wellness initiatives. It has stimulated the need for better communication between clinicians and patients. New sensor technology creates the opportunity for monitoring and testing. Wireless sensor network devices can be used to send alerts to at risk people who are exercising.

Wireless sensor networking is set to grow as sensors are freed from the grid and networks implement connectivity that is mesh architecture based. Converting ambient energy to useable electrical energy harvesting (EH) systems creates the opportunity to implement wireless sensor networks. These networks interconnect an inexpensive and compact group of devices and sensors. The networks use wireless capability to power portable electrical devices.

According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study, “Semiconductor wireless sensor network market is evolving as smart phone devices and technology find more uses throughout the landscape of the Internet of Things. Sensors can provide monitoring that has not previously been available. Differential diagnostic tools support provide differential information that helps manage our daily lives from traffic patterns to crime detections, to medical treatment.”

“The decision process take into account clinical findings from the home monitoring devices and from symptoms verbally communicated in a clinical services setting. Improved economics of healthcare delivery implementation is facilitated by wireless sensor networks. This is true across the spectrum of things that can be monitored by sensors”

Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Networks Markets at $2.7 billion in 2013 are forecast to reach $12 billion Worldwide by 2020. Wild growth, frequently measured as penetration rates is a result of the change out of wired sensor networks for wireless ones. In addition, the wireless networks have a broader reach than the wired ones did, spurring market extensions in a variety of applications, some not even thought of so far.

Market growth is dependent on emerging technology. As the wireless technology, the solid state battery, the sensor technology, smart phone technology and the energy harvesting technology all become commercialized, these devices will be used to implement wireless sensor networks. The semiconductor wireless sensor networks markets will be driven by the adoption of 9 billion smart phones by 2020, creating demand for apps that depend on sensor networks.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site.  View the report: Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Internet of Things (IoT) : Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020

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Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Network Market Report

Power Electronics Market worth $36.86 Billion by 2020

According to a new market research report “Power Electronics Market by Substrate Wafer Technology (GaN, SiC, and Others), Devices (Power IC, Power Module & Power Discrete), Applications, and Geography – Analysis & Forecast to 2014 – 2020″,  Power Electronics market is expected to boom in the near future. The power electronics market by geography is expected to grow from $21.66 billion that it accounted for, in 2013, to $36.86 billion in 2020, at an estimated CAGR of 7.74% from 2014 to 2020. APAC held a major share of the power electronics ecosystem, worth 42.11%,in 2013; and is expected to be at the same position across the forecast period, followed by the Americas and Europe.

 

The Power Electronics Market is a very dynamic market and entails a great potential across many industry verticals. The advancements in technology due to the never ending R&D in this sector, makes it one of the prominent segments in the current industrial scenario. The power electronics devices have been experiencing continuous developments right since their inception. The substrate technology has a major role to play in this sector due to the cost effective matrix, and results into a longer life cycle of devices and systems, along with greater reliability. The highlighting features of the power electronics devices include high efficiency, better properties to withstand rough environmental conditions, and a longer life that is best suited for the industrial, power, aerospace, and defense applications.

This report describes the market trends, drivers, and challenges with respect to the Power Electronics Market and forecasts the market up to 2020. This global report gives a detailed view of the market across various geographies, namely – The Americas (North America and South America), Europe (U.K., Germany, and others), the Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and others), and ROW (Middle East and others). Asia-Pacific is the largest geography in terms of the power electronics market value. Americas has been identified as the fastest growing region and a leader in the power electronics systems, with the U.S leading the way. Europe also has a very promising market, comprising Germany and the U.K., while the ROW also bestows an impetus to the growth of this market. The report profiles 10 promising players in the power electronics market ecosystem.

The competitive landscape of the market presents a very interesting picture, where a large number of small players have become forces to reckon with. The market is witnessing large scale collaborations and partnerships across the value and supply chain,among the number of tier-one players around the globe.

Major players in this field includes: Texas Instruments Inc. (U.S), Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (U.S), Infineon Technologies AG (Germany), NXP Semiconductors (U.S), Fairchild Semiconductor (U.S), Microsemi Corp. (U.S), Toshiba Corp. (Japan), Hitachi Co., Ltd (Japan), and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Japan) among others.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site. View the report:  Power Electronics Market by Substrate Wafer Technology, Devices, Applications and Geography – Analysis & Forecast to 2014-2020.

 

 

Power Electronics Market worth $36.86 Billion by 2020

32KHz and Real Time Clocks

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a new market research report entitled “32 KHz and Real Time Clocks” focused in semiconductor timing: 32 KHz and Real Time Clocks (RTC’s). This second in a series of CS &A LLC research studies provides a deep dive into both 32 KHz references and Real Time Clocks (RTC’s).  Last year we offered the first in the series; Semiconductor Timing Opportunities in Communications Infrastructure and Back Haul, with this second release geared specifically toward Time of Day generation and tracking.

Long a semiconductor category in Power Management under the heading of Supervisory, CS &A has, since 2005, considered both the 32 KHz Reference, Oscillators, and Real Time Clock IC’s as a Semi Timing product category and put it in with other IC Timing solutions under our Semiconductor Clock and Timing Reporting and considered a factor in the ~$7 B USD Semi Timing Market.

This report provides a deep and comprehensive look into both the 32 KHz reference and the Real Time market with all of its sub categories; Simple Commodity, Complex Commodity, Precision, and Fully Integrated solution categories that have emerged to provide a wide swath of solutions from the cheap (pennies and dimes), to as much as $18 USD for fully integrated solutions complete with the resonator, oscillator, dividers, full featured registered sets, on board NVM and scratchpad memory, and the battery and charging circuits…

Mark Sherwood, Principal Associate and CEO at CS &A LLC says: ” This is a deep dive into the 32 KHz reference and Real Time Clock Solutions that combined in CY2013 generated in excess of $500 Million USD WW.

The report details: WW TAMs, Supplier listings, product category reporting by volume, device level $ASP, and $revenue roll ups, plus technology reporting and analysis for Quartz, MEMS and Compensated CMOS based solutions. It is the only standalone report and analysis for this segment of Semiconductor Timing available and provides insights from the inside of this key industry segment, and actionable material and information to help guide the reader thru a complicated technology base, a mix of high and low level suppliers, a crowded channel, and key OEM’s consuming high volume for specific applications.”

32 KHz standalone references include: standalone resonators-, quartz crystal, MEMS resonators, or implemented as an Oscillator module with closed loop calibration and a compensation loop providing a multitude of solutions in the market today at a variety of levels of performance. Today, the 32 KHz Solution Mix includes XO, TCXO, DCTCXO, and standalone resonators/crystals/CMOS, with standalone Quartz solutions dominant in volume and share, DCTCXO, and simple XO type oscillators have a good SOM, and continue to grow in volume/SOM while experiencing hard $ASP erosion. One new opportunity for these kind of solutions has emerged from the growing Wearable’s Market, and as you can imagine in this application that low power consumption, low voltage tolerant (battery based applications) small form factor, and low price are mission critical items in order to play.

32KHz and Real Time Clocks

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site. View the report: 32 KHz and Real Time Clocks.

32KHz and Real Time Clocks

Audiological Devices - Global Strategic Business Report

This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Audiological Devices both by value (US$ Thousands) and by volume (Thousand Units) by the following Product Segments: Hearing Aids (Behind-the-ear, In-the-ear, In-the-canal, & Completely-in-the-canal), Measurement/Testing Devices (Otoscopes, Audiometers, Impedence Analyzers, Hearing Aid Analyzers, & Others), and Cochlear Implants. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2013 through 2020. Also, a seven-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. The report profiles 64 companies including many key and niche players such as Cochlear Limited, GN ReSound A/S, Med-EL Medical Electronics, Otovation LLC, Sonova Holding AG. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: Audiological Devices - Global Strategic Business Report.

Optical Coatings - A Global Strategic Business Report

This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Electronic Contract Manufacturing Services in US$ Million by the following Product Segments: Consumer Electronics, Computers & Peripherals, Telecommunications, Industrial Electronics, and Others. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2013 through 2020. Also, a seven-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. The report profiles 308 companies including many key and niche players such as Altadox, Inc., Benchmark Electronics, Inc., Celestica, Inc., Compal Electronics, Inc., Creation Technologies LP. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: Optical Coatings - A Global Strategic Business Report.

Electronic Contract Manufacturing Services - Global Strategic Business Report

This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Electronic Contract Manufacturing Services in US$ Million by the following Product Segments: Consumer Electronics, Computers & Peripherals, Telecommunications, Industrial Electronics, and Others. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2013 through 2020. Also, a seven-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. The report profiles 308 companies including many key and niche players such as Altadox, Inc., Benchmark Electronics, Inc., Celestica, Inc., Compal Electronics, Inc., Creation Technologies LP. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: Electronic Contract Manufacturing Services - Global Strategic Business Report.

Lighting Control Components - Global Strategic Business Report

This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Lighting Control Components in US$ Million by the following End-Use Sectors: Corporate, Outdoor, Residential, Retail, and Others. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2013 through 2020. Also, a seven-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. The report profiles 153 companies including many key and niche players such as Acuity Brands, Inc., Daintree Networks, Inc., Douglas Lighting Controls, Eaton Corp., Fagerhults Belysning AB. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: Lighting Control Components - Global Strategic Business Report.

Electronic Security Systems Industry Business Report

This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Electronic Security Systems in US$ Million by the following Categories/Segments: Alarms, Electronic Access Control Systems, CCTV/Video Surveillance Equipment, and Others. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2013 through 2020. Also, a seven-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. The report profiles 175 companies including many key and niche players such as Allegion, ASSA ABLOY AB, Axis Communications AB, Bosch Group, Diebold Inc. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: Electronic Security Systems - A Global Strategic Business Report.

2014 Analog Market Tracker

In 2014 worldwide analog revenue is expected to grow by 8 percent and reach a market value of over $43 billion. Driving this growth includes data converters, power management, and special purpose products in the automotive and industrial space. This tracker provides market forecasts for revenue and units by region, application market, application design and product family. Market share is also provided for worldwide analog by region and by product family.. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: 2014 Analog Market Tracker.

Zirconium Oxide Nanoparticles

The market for zirconium oxide nanoparticles is predicted to grow significantly in the coming years, due to it’s increased usage in high growth markets such as electronic displays, thermal barrier and wear- resistant coatings, medical and dental implants and solid oxide fuel cells. There is an increased demand in these markets for high performance materials to meet both consumer and regulatory needs. Secondary markets that will also experience moderate to medium growth include sensors and catalysts. Zirconium oxide nanoparticles cross-cut the coatings (thermal barrier, anti-corrosion, wear-resistant) and composites (medical, dental, engineering, ceramics) sectors. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: The Global Market for Zirconium Oxide Nanoparticles.

Intelligent Systems Market Continues to Disrupt Traditional Industries Including Manufacturing, Energy, and Transportation

Intelligent Systems to Exceed $1 Trillion in 2019 as the Market Continues to Disrupt Traditional Industries Including Manufacturing, Energy, and Transportation

IDC study forecasts that the Intelligent Systems market will ship over two billion systems in 2019; with the Industrial, Transportation, Smart Home, and Energy segments growing fastest.

The deployment of billions of advanced systems across major industries over the next five years will be critical to enabling the vision around intelligent systems, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) study, Worldwide Embedded and Intelligent Systems 2014–2018 Forecast and Analysis.

The market for intelligent systems—defined by microprocessors, connectivity, and high-level operating systems/UI in systems excluding PCs, phones, servers, and tablets—will grow from 1.4 billion units and $755 billion in revenue this year to over 2.2 billion units and over $1 trillion in revenue by 2019, according to the  report.

Intelligent systems continue to play a critical role in disrupting traditional industries as connectivity, sensors, and HW SW intelligence enables the ability to drive more value for applications and data. The value chain for the embedded market is broad and fragmented across a large set of industries that span decades of development and commercialization. Solving business-specific challenges across each industry with technology and data integration will ultimately dictate the cadence of adoption and help crystallize the opportunity over the next five years.

In 2019, intelligent systems will represent over one fourth of a total available market (TAM) of more than 8.5 billion systems in the combined intelligent and embedded systems market. Among the top-growing segments are driver management and fuel management systems in the transportation sector, smart wearables and smart home lighting systems in the consumer sector, digital pathology and virtual metrology systems in the healthcare sector, and industry-specific gateway products in the industrial sector.

For this forecast update,  expanded the embedded and intelligent systems and microprocessor coverage to include 263 system segments, in areas such as energy, smart building, smart home, transportation, and wearables to provide more insight on the technology adoption of each market.

Worldwide Embedded and Intelligent Systems 2014-2019 Market Update , sizes and forecasts the traditional embedded systems and intelligent systems and microprocessor markets segmented across a broad set of industries and over 250 system categories. The study also provides the context of Intelligent Systems within the broader vision of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Intelligent Systems Market Continues to Disrupt Traditional Industries Including Manufacturing, Energy, and Transportation

Thermal Management Technologies Market Report

According to a new report entitled “The Market for Thermal Management Technologies“,  global market for thermal management products is expected to grow from about $10.1 billion in 2013 to $10.6 billion in 2014 and $14.7 billion by 2019, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8% between 2014 and 2019.

Thermal management hardware (e.g., fans and blowers, heat sinks, etc.) account for about 80% of the total thermal management market.  The other main thermal management product segments:

thermal management software
thermal management interface materials
thermal management substrates

… each account for between 5% and 7% of the market.

The largest end markets for thermal management products in 2011 were the computer industry (50.8% of total revenues), telecommunications (16.8%), and medical/office equipment (11.5%). Computers are projected to increase their market share to 57.1% by 2017, while telecommunications applications’ share drops to 13.6%. Medical/office equipment’s share should remain steady at around 11.5%.

The North American market should maintain its number one position throughout the period under review, with a market share of about 37%, followed by Asia-Pacific with around 25%. The Asia-Pacific countries (except Japan) are not only the second-largest market in absolute terms, but they also have the highest projected growth rate (i.e., a CAGR of 9% between 2012 and 2017).

The overall goal of this report is to provide an analysis of the most recent developments and current trends in the global thermal management marketplace.

Thermal Management Technologies Market Report

Global Ultracapacitors Market Analysis

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a new report entitled “Supercapacitor / Ultracapacitor Interviews, Strategies, Road Map 2014-2025“.  Traditionally, rechargeable batteries have been used as energy dense products and the other devices based on capacitors have been used as power dense products. There are more-power-dense versions of the favourite rechargeable batteries – lithium-ion with 70% or so of the rechargeable battery market in 2023. 

Unfortunately, power dense rechargeable batteries surrender a lot of energy density. It is therefore helpful that more and more energy dense supercapacitors and variants are becoming available, some even matching lead acid batteries and yet retaining excellent power density.

This convergence of properties has led to the widespread combination of the two in parallel, particularly in power applications. Battery/supercapacitor combinations approach the performance of an ideal battery – something that can never be achieved with a battery alone because its chemical reactions cause movement, swelling and eventually irreversability. In some cases, things have gone further. For example, hybrid buses using supercapacitors now rarely use them across the traction battery – the supercapacitor replaces the battery, the only battery remaining in the vehicle being a small lead-acid starter battery.

There is now almost a continuum of devices between conventional electrolytic capacitors and rechargeable batteries as we explain in the report. The analysis of 80 manufacturers and putative manufacturers reveals, for example, how battery manufacturers and conventional capacitor manufacturers are entering the business of devices intermediate between the two. However, rather surprisingly, most of the intermediate devices are developed and manufactured by companies not in either conventional capacitors or batteries. Although we use the term intermediate devices, some have some properties superior to both conventional capacitors and rechargeable batteries.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site. View the report:  “Supercapacitor / Ultracapacitor Interviews, Strategies, Road Map 2014-2025“

Global Ultracapacitors Market Analysis

Global Electronics Manufacturing and Services

The worldwide electronics manufacturing services (EMS) market is a determining force in production of electronics products and now accounts for almost 40 percent of all assembly. While the rate of growth for outsourcing is slowing, it still represents the most desired manufacturing model for the assembly of electronics products available to OEM companies. The EMS industry expanded approximately 4.9 percent in 2013 as a result of a downturn year when normal growth could easily have been double without decline in demand for computer desktop and notebook products.

The Worldwide Electronics Manufacturing Services Market – 2014 Edition is the most comprehensive market research report on the EMS industry. This analysis focuses on the leading players, growing market segments, total available market (TAM), and emerging manufacturing opportunities and technologies by numerous product and country.

The report begins with a forecast of the worldwide electronics assembly market in terms of cost of goods sold, thus providing a baseline for the manufacturing value of electronics product assemblies. This forecast is checked against 48 individual product segments in the automotive, communications, computer/peripherals, consumer, industrial, medical, and aerospace and defense industries. NVR research group estimates that total electronics assembly value was $1.3 trillion in 2013 and will grow to approximately $1.8 trillion in 2018 – a 5.9 percent compounded annual growth rate. Fueled by the demand for EMS services, we believe that the EMS industry will grow from $440 billion in 2013 to $639 billion in 2018 approximately at a 7.7 percent CAGR.

Electronics Manufacturing Market

To support this conclusion, the report analyzes the EMS industry in a variety of ways. First, it reviews the worldwide market for EMS and OEM electronics assembly by individual product . Second, the report analyzes the EMS industry, including a breakdown of all of products and markets in terms of EMS revenue, OEM revenue, and regional trends by country and cost. No other report gives such detail by country wage rate and regional product assembly. This database can be purchased as an Excel file to allow for easy analysis of the hundreds of variables collected in the report.

The report also includes an EMS financial performance analysis for the best-performing companies and examines a variety of critical financial metrics . Another chapter reviews EMS mergers and acquisitions for the past few years and the impact on the growth of the industry and its competitiveness.

The report concludes with profiles of the largest EMS and ODM firms (88 companies) from all over the world. These reviews summarize the market focus of each company, its leading customers, and each company’s financial production performance statistics. The intent of these profiles is to serve as a global directory and competitive analysis tool for industry participants.

Details of the new electronics manufacturing market report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site.  View the report: The Worldwide Electronics Manufacturing Services Market – 2014 Edition.

Global Electronics Manufacturing and Services

Quantum Dots Market worth $3,414.54 Million by 2020

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry market research  and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled “Quantum Dots Market by Product, Application, Material, and Geography – Forecast & Analysis 2013-2020″,  which focuses on advanced technology, current trends, & opportunities.  The total market for Quantum dots is expected to reach $3,414.54 million in 2020, at a CAGR of 71.13% from 2014 to 2020.

Quantum Dots (QD) is the most advanced area of “semiconductor nanoparticles”, Wherein a host of massive research activities are being undertaken, currently. QDs are semiconductor nanoparticles, and, as the name suggests, come in sizes ranging from 2 nm to 10 nm. Due to their miniature property; they are highly versatile and flexible. The uniqueness of QD material lays in the fact that its power intensity depends on the input source and size of QD. There are several ways to confine excitons in semiconductors, resulting in different methods to produce quantum dots. In general, quantum wires, wells, and dots are grown by advanced epitaxial techniques in nanocrystals produced by chemical methods or by ion implantation, or in nanodevices created from state-of-the-art lithographic techniques.

The QD market is expected to grow from $108.41 million that it accounts for, currently, in 2013 to $3,414.54 million in 2020, at a CAGR of 71.13% from 2014 to 2020. Optoelectronics application is expected to be the major market share holder with an expected revenue generation of $2,458.47 million in 2020.

Healthcare industry is one of the key areas of QD technology. There are numerous applications in the biomedical and biotechnology field that are already being exposed to QD technology and; hence, it accounts for the largest percentage of the QD market, on the whole. Applications in biomedical and biotechnology fields are expected to increase as and when the technology progresses.

Healthcare industry is one of the key areas of QD technology. There are numerous applications in the biomedical and biotechnology field that are already being exposed to QD technology and; hence, it accounts for the largest percentage of the QD market, on the whole. Applications in biomedical and biotechnology fields are expected to increase as and when the technology progresses.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site. View the report: “Quantum Dots Market by Product, Application, Material, and Geography – Forecast & Analysis 2013-2020“.

Quantum Dots Market worth $3,414.54 Million by 2020

Polysilicon 2015-2018: Supply, Demand, Cost and Pricing

After enduring a traumatic period of sustained overcapacity and price troughs in 2011-2013, the global polysilicon market has rebounded strongly in 2014. An uptick in pricing and renewed confidence in end-market growth has spurred the resumption of capacity expansion plans (Wacker, OCI, Tokuyama) and previously shuttered plants (Elkem, LDK, Hankook). Additionally, a slew of new entrants (SMP, Hanwha, QST) are poised to join the market, making for a dynamic, multi-tiered competitive landscape with significant variation in supply capabilities, manufacturing costs, and purity profiles. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: Polysilicon 2015-2018: Supply, Demand, Cost and Pricing.

Micro Server IC Market Report

Micro servers, also known as low powered servers or energy efficient servers or high dense servers, are those which contain a large number of nodes, low powered processors, and shared infrastructure. The micro server architecture provides improvement in power efficiency and system cooling compared to traditional servers by sharing common components, such as fans and power supply. Micro servers thus, use less power, need less cooling, and require less space than conventional servers. They are mainly used for low intensive tasks such as web hosting, video steaming, downloads, web 2.0 activities such as social networking, web serving, or possibly handling corporate logins. Micro servers market has penetrated nearly 2.3% of the total servers market in 2012. However, it is forecasted that by 2018, nearly 28% of the servers market will be shared by micro servers. The market is expected to take a magnanimous leap from 2014 when 64 bit ARM processor, having a high processing speed, will be launched. Market is segmented according to component, processor type, application, and geography.

Micro Server IC market is segmented based on the processor type into Intel, ARM, and AMD. Intel processor based micro servers are further segmented into Atom and Xeon. The report also forecasts the market by component which includes hardware, software, and operation systems. Application areas of micro servers are categorized into Media Storage, Internet Data Centers, Analytics, Cloud Computing, and other applications. This report describes the market dynamics which includes drivers, restraints, and opportunities along with their impact analysis matrix. Impact analysis matrix depicts the impact of a particular driver or restraint on the market at present and the future impact on the market. This report also highlights the huge opportunities for the market.

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Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site:  Micro Server IC Market by Processor (Intel, ARM, AMD), IC’s (Analog, Digital), Applications (Media Storage, Data Center, Cloud Computing, Analytics) & by Geography (N.America, Europe, APAC, ROW) – Global Forecasts and Analysis to 2013 – 2018.

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Partial List of Tables:

Table 15 Comparison Between Atom and Xeon Based Micro Servers

Table 16 Global Intel Based Micro Servers Market Revenue, By Types, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 17 Intel Processor Based Micro Servers Market Revenue, By Application, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 18 Intel Processor Based Micro Servers Market Revenue, By Geography, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 19 Atom Based Micro Servers Market Revenue, By Geography 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 20 Xeon Based Micro Servers Market Revenue, By Geography, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 21 ARM Processor Based Micro Servers Market, By Application, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 22 ARM-Based Micro Servers Market Revenue, By Geography, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 23 AMD Processor-Based Micro Servers Market Revenue, By Applications, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 24 AMD-Based Micro Servers Market Revenue, By Geography, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 25 Global Micro Servers Market, By Components, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 26 Micro Server Hardware Market Revenues, By Device, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

Table 27 Micro Server Hardware Market Revenue, By Geography, 2012 – 2018 ($Million)

 

 

Micro Server IC Market Report

Internet of Things Spending by Vertical Market

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new IDC report entitled “Worldwide Internet of Things Spending by Vertical Market 2014-2017 Forecast“, which defines the IT opportunity for  all vertical markets that comprise  the burgeoning Internet of Things market. The new report segments the IoT market as well as provides a forecast that illustrates which vertical industries show the greatest market opportunity over the next several years.

As the Internet of Things IoT market starts to coalesce in both concept and solution offering, IDC recommends vendors take the next step and look at this huge IT opportunity in a more realistic and valuable framework. As exciting as the overall opportunity for the IoT market currently exists, understanding the vertical ramifications is paramount. All of the greatest IoT IT opportunities — from the connected home, smart meters, the connected car, and smart grid to personal wellness and connected health — are driven from a vertical market perspective.

The Internet of Things market must be understood in terms of vertical markets because the value of IoT is based on individual use cases across all markets. Successful sales and marketing efforts by vendors will be based on understanding the most lucrative verticals that offer current growth and future potential and then creating solutions for specific use cases that address industry-specific business processes.

IDC defines the Internet of Things concept as a wired or wireless network connecting devices, or “things,” that is characterized by autonomous provisioning, management, and monitoring. IoT already impacts our everyday life down to the smallest processes. The vertical opportunity that arises from IoT is already in play, but only if the need for vertical expertise is recognized and offered. Realizing the existence of vertical opportunity is the first step to understanding the impact — and therefore market opportunity that exists — for IT vendors. In addition:

• IDC has looked at the components, processes, and IT support for IoT and expects the technology and services revenue to expand from $4.8 trillion in 2012 to $7.3 trillion by 2017 at an 8.8% CAGR, with the greatest opportunity initially in the consumer, discrete manufacturing, and government vertical industries.


• The IoT/M2M market is growing quickly, but the development of this market will not be consistent across all vertical markets. Industries that already “understand” IoT will see the most immediate growth, such as industrial production/automotive, transportation, and energy/utilities. However, all verticals will reflect great opportunity.


• IoT is a derivative market containing many elements, including horizontal IT components as well as vertical and industry-specific IT elements. It is these vertical components where IT vendors will have to distinguish themselves to address industry-specific IoT needs.


• IoT opens up many IT vendors to the consumer market, providing B2B2C services to connect and run homes and automobiles — all the places that electronic devices will have a networking capability.

According to the report, the first step to understand how vendors can position themselves will be to understand the components of the IoT/M2M IT ecosphere. Because this is a derivative market, there are many opportunities for vendors to offer parts or product suites that cover the needed IoT IT set. And vendors will have incentive to do so due to rapid growth which will occur as industries see the convenience, productivity, and efficiency that IoT brings to business processes. Accordingly, while horizontal-focused IT vendors will look to offer IoT solutions that appeal to many industries, there will also be impetus to offer vertical-focused solutions that make IoT tangible for both industries applications (M2M) and consumer needs (B2B2C).

The IoT market will greatly impact and offer the potential for vertical-aligned businesses to improve both performance and profitability. The IoT solutions space will expand exponentially and will offer every business endless IoT-focused solutions. The initial strategy of businesses should be to avoid choosing IoT-based solutions that will solve only immediate concerns and lack ‘staying power.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site. View the report: “Worldwide Internet of Things Spending by Vertical Market 2014-2017 Forecast“

Internet of Things Spending by Vertical Market

2014 Medical Semiconductors Report

Medical electronics continue to drive demand for high performance semiconductors. We predict that this application market for circuits will grow from $4.1 billion to over $6 billion in the next five years. This report covers demand for semiconductors in the home medical electronics market, imaging market, and clinical electronics market. Market share for semiconductor suppliers is provided along with market share and estimated semiconductor spend by the diverse medical manufacturing industry. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: 2014 Medical Semiconductors Report.

Optical Transceivers Markets to Reach $9.9 Billion by 2020

ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a new report entitled “Optical Transceivers: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020″. The global optical transceivers markets at $3.2 billion in 2013 is anticipated to grow to $9.9 billion by 2020 driven by the availability and cost effectiveness of 40 Gbps, 100 Gbps, and 400 Gbps devices. Next generation devices use less power, are less expensive, and are smaller. The adoption of widespread use of the 100 Gbps devices, and the vast increases in Internet traffic are core to change in the communications infrastructure markets. The vendors in the optical transceivers industry have to invest in high-quality technology and processes. The development of innovative products is essential to keeping and growing market share.

High-speed serial transceivers form the backbone of networks. Communications, servers and many other electronic systems depend on high-speed serial transceivers. Global adoption of the Internet is driving rapid growth of the mega datacenter. Data centers support online commerce, streaming video, social networking, and cloud services. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a primary offering.

Leading vendors offer a broad product selection. They are positioned with innovative technology. Optical module manufacturers address the needs of all major networking equipment vendors worldwide. Leading vendors have taken a leading role in transforming the data communications and tele-communications equipment market.

The shift has been away from utilizing discrete optical components to leveraging the design and pay-as-you-grow flexibility offered by pluggable modules. Optical transceiver products are compliant with Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH/OTN and PON standards. They generally operate at data rates of 10 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s.

Transmitter / Transceivers are capable of distances ranging from very short reach within a datacenter to campus, access, metro, and long-haul reaches. They feature outstanding performance. Units work over extended voltage and temperature ranges. They are positioned to minimize jitter, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and power dissipation.

Optical transceiver components are an innovation engine for the network. Optical transceiver components support and enable low-cost transport throughout the network. Optical transceivers are needed for high speed network infrastructure build-outs. These are both for carriers and data centers. Network infrastructure build-out depends on the availability of consultants who are knowledgeable.

Consultants with extensive experience are needed to bring optical component network design, installation, upgrade and maintenance into development. Optical components are being used to equip data centers, FTTx, metro access or core networks. They are used for long-haul and WAN.

A palette of pluggable optical transceivers includes GBIC, SFP, XFP, SFP+, X2, CFP form factors. These are able to accommodate a wide range of link spans. Vendors work closely with network planners and infrastructure managers to design high speed optical transport systems.

According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the WinterGreen Research team that prepared the study, “The DP-QPSK is the industry-backed modulation scheme for 100Gbps. Commonality between 40Gbps and 100Gbps coherent designs bring a design choice to the issue is relative costs. The economics of 40 Gbps versus 100 Gbps coherent are matters of comparison. If users buy 40 Gbps and an economical 100 Gbps coherent design appears, 40 Gbps coherent get the required market traction to create economies of scale that market the 40Gbps devices viable in the market.”

Designers are shrinking existing 40Gbps modules, boosting 40Gbps system capacity. The 300-pin LFF transponder, at 7×5 inch, requires its own line card. Two system line cards are needed for a 40Gbps link: one for the short-reach, client-side interface and one for the line-side transponder.

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site.  View the report:  “Optical Transceivers: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020“.

 

Optical Transceivers Markets to Reach $9.9 Billion by 2020

The Worldwide IC Packaging Market

While the integrated circuit (IC) market tends to be cyclical in nature, the general trend is for more ICs to be integrated into more products over time. The market is being driven by demand for handheld consumer devices as well as advanced computing products. All product segments (transportation, medical/industrial, communications and computers) are expanding rapidly with advances in semiconductor packaging technology leading innovation. Following an unexpectedly robust year of growth (7.9%), in 2013, the semiconductor industry appears to have recovered its former strength after the devastating economic downturn at the end of the last decade. While the rate of growth for both semiconductors shipped and worldwide revenues will decline somewhat, the market is expected to post a respectable compounded growth of more than 4% over the next five years. This report analyzes the semiconductor industry and uses this analysis to forecast the future of the global IC packaging market. The report begins with an economic and industry overview, then examines the historic and future unit and revenue IC growth. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: The Worldwide IC Packaging Market.

Machine Vision Technologies Global Markets

The scope of this report is the market for MV hardware and software, including smart cameras and smart sensors, compact vision systems, personal computer-based MV systems, MV lighting and cameras, and frame grabbers. A variety of factors were considered in making the market forecast, including plant construction and upgrades, the rate at which new MV technology is being applied in new areas, the underlying economic growth of the overall market, and the growth rates reported by manufacturers and users of MV products. The report will look at the global market for the various components that comprise an MV system. These components have been undergoing constant upgrades in terms of sophistication, but providing easier operation. The global market for machine vision (MV) system components totalled $14.4 billion in 2013 and $15.7 billion in 2014. The market should reach $17.1 billion in 2015 and about $26.9 billion in 2020, registering a compound annual growth (CAGR) of 9.4% over the next five years. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: Machine Vision Technologies Global Markets.

DRAM, China, and Leading-Edge Foundry Driving IC Industry in 2014

The McClean Report offers a broad look at the integrated circuit industry. The original 490-page study (monthly updates provide approximately 500 more pages of information) is separated into 16 sections. About 400 tables, graphs, and illustrations in the original report clearly describe various market dynamics (another 400 tables, graphs, and illustrations are included in the monthly updates).

Besides covering worldwide IC market conditions and economic issues, there are chapters dedicated to each of the major IC product segments. Likewise, trends pertaining to capital spending and fab capacity, as well as technology developments and packaging, can be found in other sections of the report.

Links to summaries of each section in the report are provided below.

1. Executive Summary

2. Global IC Industry Outlook and Cycles

3. Leading IC Suppliers and Foundries

4. Capital Spending and Capacity Trends

5. Market Summary by Device Type

6. Memory Market Overview

7. Flash and Other Non-Volatile Memory

8. DRAMs and SRAMs

9. Microcomponent Market Overview

10. Microcontrollers and DSPs

11. Microprocessors

12. ASIC Market Overview

13. Analog Market Overview

14. Technology Trends

15. Packaging Trends

16. IC Economic Issues

Section 1. Executive Summary

The executive summary serves as an introduction to The McClean Report. It highlights the major issues that are detailed in the report to give the reader an idea for what to expect in the sections that follow.

Section 2. Global IC Industry Outlook and Cycles

Electronic Industry Interdependence. This section starts by examining the relationship between the electronic systems market and the IC market, as well as how the IC market depends on the health of two smaller but important segments—the semiconductor equipment market and the semiconductor materials market.

Global IC Industry Outlook and Cycles

Global Economics. The world and regional GDP environments are discussed and compared to the semiconductor market environment. In addition, regional electronic systems production statistics are provided and the effects of currency exchange rates on the electronic systems and semiconductor markets are covered.

Global Semiconductor Market Review and Forecast. An extensive historical review and five-year forecast through 2018 of the worldwide semiconductor market is provided. The forecasts are presented in terms of dollars, unit shipments, and average selling price, as well as by region and electronic system type. Forecast assumptions are also presented.

 

Section 3. Leading IC Suppliers and Foundries

Who and where are the world’s leading suppliers of ICs? Find the answers in this section. The top 50 IC suppliers, top 50 semiconductor suppliers, and top 50 fabless IC suppliers are shown for 2012 and 2013.

Leading IC Suppliers and Foundries

In addition, a significant amount of coverage is included on IC foundries and the increasingly important role they play in the IC industry.

 

Section 4. Capital Spending and Capacity Trends

Capital spending and fab capacity levels are an important indicator of health in the semiconductor industry. As in many business situations, overspending leads to overcapacity, which leads to an imbalance in supply and demand. Therefore, it is useful to track spending (or production) and capacity trends in the industry.

Worldwide Capital Spending. In addition to a review and forecast of worldwide spending, rankings of the world’s biggest spenders are provided. Spending levels within each of the world’s geographic regions are compared to show which areas are most aggressive in advancing production capabilities and adding capacity. Spending by IC product type is also covered.

Capital Spending and Capacity Trends

Capital Spending Cycles. While the pronounced cycles of the semiconductor market are well documented, this section shows that capital spending trends are even more volatile. Also shown is how closely changes in capital spending and IC average selling price have tracked over the past two decades.

Worldwide IC Capacity and Production. Capacity and production statistics include die-per-wafer trends, wafer start trends, capacity utilization rates, and revenue-per-wafer trends.

Worldwide IC Capacity and Production

 

Section 5. Market Summary by Device Type

This section includes a detailed review and forecast (2011-2018) of each IC product category (e.g., data conversion ICs, standard cell ASICs, MPUs, DRAMs, etc.). The details include dollar volumes, unit shipments, and average selling prices. In addition, the average annual growth rates for each category are listed.

Section 6. Memory Market Overview

This section provides a brief summary of the MOS memory IC market and the various volatile and non-volatile memory products that make up the category. Trace the MOS memory market’s best and worst times over the past few years and note any cyclical patterns through 2018.

Memory Market Overview

 

Section 7. Flash and Other Non-Volatile Memory

Flash and Other Non-Volatile Memory

Non-volatile memory ICs include ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, and flash memory devices. The unifying characteristic is that they retain their stored information even after system power is removed. ROM and EPROM devices were once the backbone of the non-volatile memory market, but now take a back seat to more versatile flash memory devices. This section examines trends, reviews market, unit shipment, and average selling price data, and highlights technical advances.

 

Section 8. DRAMs and SRAMs

The DRAM market continues to be one of the most closely watched of all IC categories. Whether in discrete package form or embedded with other technology, these devices are a critical component in PCs and are found in a growing number of wireless and portable applications. This section examines the historical and forecasted markets, unit shipments, and the all-important average selling prices for both DRAM and SRAM products. DRAM price-per-bit information and DRAM architectures are reviewed.

 

Section 9. Microcomponent Market Overview

This section features a high-level review of microprocessors, microcontrollers, and digital signal processors, all which fall under the banner of the microcomponent market. See how each of these segments contributes to the total microcomponent market.

Microcomponent Market Overview

 

Section 10. Microcontrollers and Digital Signal Processors

Microcontrollers are among the most ubiquitous of all integrated circuits. From 4-bit to 32-bit devices, microcontrollers are used to control and monitor both simple and extremely complex functions in the home, automobile, and office. This section reviews market, unit shipment, and pricing data and provides a review of the different segments of the MCU market.

The DSP market is suffering from a loss of identity as digital signal processing functions move into application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) fill potential DSP sockets.  IC Insights reviews the market, unit shipments, and average selling price for the DSP market.

 

Section 11. Microprocessors

From humble beginnings in 1971, microprocessors have emerged to be among the most closely followed of all IC products. Nearly everyone recognizes Intel’s dominance in the microprocessor business, but what about processors for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs?  What does Intel’s processor roadmap hold in store?  Can Intel achieve processor dominance in the market for portable handheld devices or will ARM-based processors continue to gain market momentum?  Learn IC Insights’ take on the MPU market and review our forecast of market size, unit shipments, and average selling price.

Section 12. ASIC Market Overview

The application-specific IC (ASIC) and system-on-chip (SOC) market is an important segment of the IC industry. This section offers extensive coverage of ASIC/SOC market trends. Dollar, unit shipment, and average selling price information is provided for the total ASIC market, as well as for the standard cell, gate array, and PLD sub-segments.

ASIC Market Overview

 

Section 13. Analog Market Overview

Analog Market Overview

Analog signals can be thought of as those that represent elements and conditions experienced in the “real” world. These include factors such as light, sound, temperature, and pressure. Analog signals are a continuous representation of phenomena in terms of points along a scale. Hype and hoopla surrounding advances in the world of digital ICs often overshadows developments in the analog IC business, but as noted in this section, the analog market continues to play a steady role in the IC industry. Important market, unit shipment, and pricing data for the overall analog market and for individual segments within this market (e.g., amplifiers, interface, comparators, etc.) are provided.

 

Section 14. Technology Trends

The success and proliferation of the integrated circuit since its discovery in the late 1950s has been due to the ability of manufacturers to continue offering more for the money. This ability to reduce the cost of ICs per performance has been driven by the continuous and rapid development of new and improved process technologies. Section 14 covers a variety of process technology related trends, such as the advanced lithography methods needed to continue shrinking chip geometries, new interconnect schemes, strain engineering for improved performance and lower power consumption, 3D integration, novel transistor structures, and the migration to larger wafers.

Technology Trends

 

Section 15. Packaging Trends

IC Packaging Trends

The assembly and packaging of ICs no longer takes a back seat to front-end processing. For most new IC products, packaging is an integral part of the chip design and production process; it is no longer just a simple, final step in the chip supply chain. As a result, accelerating demand for smaller, faster, yet less expensive products is pressing the packaging industry to keep pace with advancements in IC process technology.

This section provides an IC unit shipment forecast by package type (e.g., SO, FP/CC, BGA, wafer-level, bare die, etc.) and data showing how packages have evolved from simple cookie-cutter type packages to highly sophisticated and customized solutions. Details are provided on the ball-grid array, chip-scale package (CSP), bare die or direct-chip attach (DCA), wafer-level packaging, and multichip package (MCP) technologies, including stacked-chip packages.

 

Section 16. IC Economic Issues

Minimizing costs is the primary driving force in the IC manufacturing industry. Advances in technology are needed to satisfy the requirements of leading-edge electronic systems. However, when an IC producer is confronted with the choice of using the most advanced technology or keeping costs under control, the decision almost always leans toward minimizing costs. This section covers several trends relating to the cost of designing and manufacturing ICs, such as R&D costs, IC fabrication facility costs, wafer costs, defect density and yield, and packaging costs.

IC Economic Issues

Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site: The McClean Report.

 

 

DRAM, China, and Leading-Edge Foundry Driving IC Industry in 2014