Mobile phone chips will reach 66.7 billion U.S. dollars this year

Research firm Gartner said today that the high sales volume of mobile devices has led to a shift from PC-oriented to mobile-device-based demand in the semiconductor market. For the mobile phone sector, Gartner predicts that the mobile phone chip market in 2013 will increase by 14.4% annually. Of the 66.7 billion U.S. dollars, growth was particularly strong with memory and application-specific ICs.

Gartner believes that the rise of mobile devices has had a significant impact on the global semiconductor industry. As the power of white-label manufacturers gradually grows larger, the smart phone and tablet market has also approached entry-level products in recent years, allowing semiconductor manufacturers to come back. It is worth observing changes in the mid-to-low-end market and the changes in market competition under the effect of a new round of competition and cooperation. In addition, the memory sector with strong revenue growth recently is still tending to tighten its capital expenditures. Foundry factories are competing to expand their capital expenditures and set off a race for process technology changes.

Gartner emphasized that in recent years, the market has been enthusiastically discussing whether Moores Law has approached the limit, and foundry manufacturers may not continue to increase the size of wafers or process reduction to generate economies of scale, and Moore's Law will remain in the next few years. Advance semiconductor technology to the next few generations. Technologies such as micro-electromechanical systems (MEMs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will advance the next wave of semiconductor equipment industry and its application in the Internet of Things (IoT) trend.