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Total semiconductor sales include the combined sales of ICs, optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discretes (O-S-D) components.

At the start of this year, semiconductor suppliers were enjoying a strong influx of orders due to robust post-COVID-19 economic activity.

Power transistor sales are on pace to grow 11% in 2022 and expected to reach a sixth-straight record high level, totalling $24.5bn this year, primarily because of the highest increase in the average selling price (ASP) for products in this large discrete semiconductor segment in more than a decade

IC Insights released its 3Q Update to the 2022 McClean Report in August.

For most of the last two decades strong growth in CMOS image sensors pushed this product category to the top of the optoelectronics market, in terms of sales volume, generating over 40% of total opto-semiconductor annual revenues.

In its August Quarterly Update to The McClean Report released last month, IC Insights reduced its worldwide IC market growth forecast for 2022 from 11% to 7%.

After slowing significantly in the last half of 2021, the pace of megadeals for semiconductor mergers and acquisitions regained momentum in the first six months of 2022. This is according to M&A data contained in IC Insights’ August 3Q Update of The McClean Report service.

IC Insights reports on semiconductor sales and considers the implications of the semi market based on the experiences of Micron and other major foundries such as TSMC.

Despite economic troubles brewing this year, total microprocessor sales are expected to maintain double-digit percentage growth in 2022, rising nearly 12% to a record-high $114.8bn, thanks to higher average selling prices (ASPs), according to IC Insights’ updated second-quarter semiconductor forecast.

Single-chip microcontrollers for embedded control and computing functions are ubiquitous and continue to be designed into more systems.

Quarterly update shows higher gains in microprocessors and power discretes this year, but lower sales increases in optoelectronics while the global economy faces greater risks.

Microcontroller sales boomeranged back with strong growth in the economic recovery of 2021, when the MCU market climbed 23% to a record-high $19.6bn after falling two percent in the 2020 outbreak year of the Covid-19 virus crisis, according to IC Insights’ 1Q Update to its 2022 McClean Report. 

Another year of double-digit market growth is expected for analogue integrated circuits in 2022 after sales in this semiconductor category surged by an unprecedented 30% in 2021, during the economic recovery from the global recession caused by the Covid-19 virus crisis in 2020, according to IC Insights’ 1Q Update to its 2022 McClean Report.

Total microprocessor sales in 2021 maintained strength, growing 14% to a record-high $102.9 billion after climbing 16% in 2020, when COVID lockdowns drove up demand for personal computers and large-screen smartphones because of the increased reliance on the Internet.

IC Insights has released its comprehensive forecast and analysis of the worldwide semiconductor industry in its January Semiconductor Industry Flash Report – part of the 2022 McClean Report service.

IC Insights has updated and released its comprehensive forecast and analysis of the worldwide semiconductor industry in its January Semiconductor Industry Flash Report, which is included as part of the 2022, 25th edition of The McClean Report service.

Above average increases are expected in all major product categories, which will lift the global market to record-high revenues in 2022 despite growth rates easing from last year’s economic rebound, says report.

After a record-high start in Q1 2021, semiconductor M&a (merger and acquisition) announcements cool off without the 'megadeals' seen in 2020, says new report.

IC Insights released its August Update to the 2021 McClean Report this month, which includes a review of the top 25 semiconductor sales leaders for 2Q21. The top ten suppliers for 2Q are covered in this research bulletin.