ARM will be Applied by Intel x86 Home Turf

Published:2011/8/24 22:47:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The Arizona analyst IC Insights declares that the ARM will be applied by x86 MPU home turf. The application will bring pressure to the personal computer, desktop system and servers. “The spread of ARM-based processors threatens to go beyond tablet computers and invade the x86 MPU turf in mainstream home PCs, desktop systems, and even network servers,” says Bill McLean, CEO of IC Insights. “The steep takeoff of touch-screen tablets has turned the portable-computer segment upside down,” adds McLean, “with Intel and AMD scrambling to head off the overwhelming success of ARM-based processors in tablets.”

Ninety percent of all the systems apply the ARM processor, and nearly that same share is expected in 2011. IC Insights maintains that the IC market will reach $300 billion in the first time of 2013. The IC market topped $10bn in 1980, reached $100bn in 1995 and hit $200bn in 2005. It took 15 years for the market to grow from $10bn to $100bn, 10 years to double in size to $200bn, and will take eight years to increase another $100bn to reach $300bn. 2011 units are forecast to top 200bn for the first time. Shipments of analogue devices are forecast to surpass 100bn and, for the first time, account for over half the market. MOS memory is forecast to have the strongest market CAGR of all the major product categories during the 2008-2015 time period, with average annual growth of 12%. At the same time, the NAND flash memory is predicated to have 20% CAGR.

The demand for tablet PCs, smartphones, and solid-state is increasing nowadays, which will make the sales of NAND flash grow in the year of 2015. Total smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 60% in 2011 to 440m units, after increasing 56% to 275 million in 2010. The smartphone’s shipment is expected to increase by 13% every quarter between 1Q10 and 4Q11. The automotive application-specific analogue market is predicated to grow 32% in 2011, which becomes the driving force of the market.

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