Asia-Pacific dominates IC sales in 2015

This region is particularly dominant with regard to IC marketshare in the computer and communications categories, as well as to a lesser extent in the consumer and industrial categories (see figure 1). Globally, the communications segment first surpassed the computer segment to become the largest end use market for ICs in 2013 and it is forecast to extend its marketshare lead to 2.7 points in 2015.

2015F IC usage by system type ($m)

Europe is forecast to account for the largest share of the automotive IC market in 2015, but IC Insights expects the Asia-Pacific region will achieve top share of that segment in 2016 as China continues to account for a large and growing portion of new car shipments. That will leave only the Government/Military end use segment where Asia-Pacific does not have top IC marketshare - a condition that is forecast to hold through 2018. IC Insights’ Update to the IC Market Drivers 2015 report forecasts total IC usage by system type through the year 2018. Highlights from the forecast data include the following items:

• The two largest end-use market segments in 2015 - computer and communications - are forecast to account for 73.9% of the total IC sales this year.
• From 2012-2018, the two highest growth end-use markets for ICs are forecast to be the industrial and communication segments, having CAGRs of 9.1% and 8.2%, respectively.
• The automotive IC market is forecast to a CAGR of 6.1% from 2012-2018, yet automotive’s share of the total IC market is forecast to remain below 8.0% throughout this time.
• In 2015, analogue ICs are forecast to represent the greatest share of IC sales among automotive (43%) and industrial (50%) applications; logic devices are expected to account for the greatest share of IC sales within government (33%) and consumer (19%) systems and MPUs (60%) are forecast to account for the greatest share of IC sales in the computer segment.