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2017 Automotive IC market heading for record year

Electronic systems that improve vehicle performance; that add comfort and convenience; and that warn, detect, and take corrective measures to keep drivers safe and alert are being added to new cars each year.

Consumer demand and government mandates for many of these new systems, along with rising prices for many IC components within them, are expected to raise the automotive IC market 22 percent this year to a new record high of USD 28.0 billion. Over the past several years, the global automotive IC market has experienced some extraordinary swings in growth. After increasing 11.5 percent in 2014, the automotive IC market declined 2.5 percent in 2015, but then rebounded with solid 10.8 percent growth in 2016. It is worth noting that the sales decline experienced in 2015 was primarily the result of falling ASPs across all the key automotive IC product categories—microcontrollers, analog ICs, DRAM, flash, and general- and special-purpose logic ICs, which offset steady unit growth for automotive ICs that year. However, in the second half of 2016, steadily rising ASPs (along with demand for the new automotive systems) helped return the automotive IC market to double-digit growth. In 2017, exceptionally strong increases in DRAM and flash memory prices are expected to help drive the total automotive IC market to an extraordinary increase of 22.4 percent. IC Insights recently revised its IC market outlook for 2017 and now shows DRAM average selling prices rising 50 percent in 2017, NAND flash ASPs increasing 28 percent, and the average selling price for automotive special-purpose logic devices increasing 34 percent. These strong ASPs gains, coupled with ongoing system demand, are driving the strong automotive IC market growth this year. Collectively, microcontrollers, analog, standard logic, and memory ICs used in automotive applications accounted for only about 8 percent of total IC marketshare by system type in 2016, but that share is forecast to increase to more than 10 percent in 2020, when automotive is expected to become the third-largest end-use category for ICs, trailing only the communications and computer segments. Through 2020, IC Insights anticipates that advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) will be the biggest user of automotive ICs. Various ADAS systems are currently helping cars and drivers remain safe on the road and they are proving to be essential building blocks to semi autonomous and autonomous vehicles that are being proposed for the next decade. ----- More information can be found at IC Insights.

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March 15 2024 2:25 pm V22.4.5-2
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