Chinese IC market rises sharply

In 2010, the global semiconductor market was 298.32 billion U.S. dollars. The growth rate of the market reached 31.8%. It was the fastest growing market since 2000. After experiencing the decline in 2009, the market rebounded sharply and ended for many years. Depression development trend.

In the integrated circuit market in China, the market has also ended the trend of continuous declining growth rate for many years. In 2010, the market growth rate reached 29.5%, and the sales amounted to 734.95 billion yuan. It is the fastest growing market since 2005. The rebound of the market has benefited from the recovery of the global economy. The market has a strong demand for downstream whole-machine electronic products, which in turn drives demand for upstream integrated circuit products. In addition, due to the strong demand for chips in the downstream market in 2010, the overall price of chips has been relatively firm compared to previous years. In some product areas, there has even been a rise in chip prices. Chip price factors are also one of the factors that affect market development. As a whole, the key reason for the sharp rebound of the market in 2010 was because the market was affected by the global financial crisis in 2009 and led to a decline in the market, resulting in a lower market base. As a result, both the global market and the Chinese market achieved rapid growth in 2010. .

In the import and export of the market, according to statistics from the customs, in 2010 China’s integrated circuit imports reached US$156.99 billion, a year-on-year growth of 31.0%. In terms of exports, China’s IC exports in 2010 were US$29.25 billion, a year-on-year growth of 25.5. %. It can be seen that China's integrated circuit products have large differences in imports and exports, most of the integrated circuits needed by China still need to be imported, and the development speed of China's integrated circuit market is basically in line with the growth rate of imports.

Looking ahead to 2011, after experiencing rapid growth in 2010, the market will enter a stage of steady development both in the global market and the Chinese market. It is expected that the market growth rate will be around 10%, and the main driving force of market development will still come mainly from PCs, mobile phones, and LCD TVs have already produced other electronic products that have larger output. In addition, emerging applications have become one of the drivers of market growth. The development of the emerging electronics market such as xPad has also promoted the development of the semiconductor market to some extent. With the continuous development of information technology in medical electronics, security electronics, and various industries In-depth, integrated circuit products used in these industries will account for an increasing proportion of the market.

In the next three years, the growth rate of automotive electronics will obviously slow down, but it will still be significantly higher than the growth of the overall integrated circuit market. The growth rate of the PC sector will also slow down, which will directly affect the memory market and CPU. Market development, MCU products worth noting, in the future with the increase in social security card issuance, MCU for IC card field will be driven, and with the widening of MCU application range, the growth rate of Chinese MCU will be significantly faster than The overall integrated circuit market.