Embedded processor and connection chip are two bright spots in semiconductor market

IDC, vice president of global semiconductor market research firm Mario Morales said that the embedded processor and the connection chip is the two bright spot in the semiconductor market. In 2009, computer and mobile chip sales fell to two digits.

Many embedded systems need to improve the level of intelligence, the trend of the embedded processor to promote the compound annual growth rate of 15%. IDC predicts that sales of such chips will grow from $about 3000000000 in 2007 to nearly $7 billion in 2012.

In digital TV and set-top boxes and other popular devices, currently only less than 3% with connectivity, which is also a potential growth area. Morales predicts that support for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other standards of a combination of chips, accounting for the proportion of chips in 2012 will rise from the current 20% to 60%.

Morales said that the semiconductor industry has experienced a lot of strong wind and big waves is still very strong ". "The biggest problem is the lack of visibility," Morales said."