Global Semiconductor Sales for 2016 to Sink 0.6% Annually to $329B
December 10, 2015 | TrendForceEstimated reading time: 3 minutes
Due to the slowing growth of the mobile communication industry, global market research firm TrendForce projects that the total revenue from sales of semiconductors worldwide will grow by a mere 0.9% year on year in 2015, a sharp plunge from the 10.5% year-on-year growth in 2014. Looking forward to 2016, the decline in the sales of memory products will become steeper and drag down the total semiconductor sales revenue. As a result, semiconductor revenue growth is projected to become negative and slide slightly by 0.6% year on year, amounting to around US$329 billion.
According to TrendForce Research Manager Jian-Hong Lin, the semiconductor sector will witness the following trends in 2016:
1. The decline in PC shipments will moderate and ASPs of mobile devices will recover
Weak PC demand and the rising share of PCs carrying CPU/GPU SoC products this year have led to a contraction in the overall revenue from PC-related IC products. However, the overall inventory level of PCs has been through corrections this year and this will help stabilize CPU sales next year, narrowing the fluctuation of average sales prices (ASPs) for CPU products.
While growth in the mobile device market has slowed this year, the share of devices carrying application processors (APs) made on the 16/14nm processes is expected to grow. The price decline in APs for mid-range and high-end devices will decelerate going into 2016. TrendForce estimates that the global sales revenue of digital IC chips will decline by 1.4% year on year in 2015 and see a lesser drop of 0.7% year on year in 2016.
2. Growth in analog IC and OSD markets will continue with automotive components and high-resolution CIS’s becoming demand drivers
In 2016, automobile shipments worldwide is expected to grow 5% year on year, and the average cost of analog IC components for each vehicle will rise as well. Consequently, the share of automotive application in the overall analog IC market will grow from the estimated 28% in 2015 to the forecast of 30% in 2016. The automotive application will also drive the overall analog IC sales, which will grow 3.5% year on year in 2016.
Rising demand from high-resolution CMOS imaging sensors (CIS’s) and automotive components will continue to benefit the optoelectronics, sensors/actuators and discretes (OSD) market. TrendForce estimates the annual increase in the global OSD sales revenue to reach 4.4% for 2016.
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