The whole microprocessor (MPU) market is on observe to exceed US$100 billion for the primary time ever this yr, due to robust will increase in cellphone utility processor income, in line with IC Insights.
Microprocessor gross sales are sustaining power in 2021 after climbing 16% final yr within the midst of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic that drove up the world’s reliance on the Internet in the course of the pandemic, IC Insights indicated. Sales are forecast to develop 14% in 2021, which is able to elevate the overall microprocessor market to a record-high US$103.7 billion, in comparison with a 9% enhance that was anticipated in January.
IC Insights additionally raised its MPU unit development forecast to 11% this yr. MPU unit shipments are forecast to succeed in 2.5 billion items in 2021, with ASPs set to rise 4%.
IC Insights additionally revised upward its five-year income forecast for MPUs to a compound annual development price (CAGR) of seven.1%, which is able to put gross sales quantity at US$127.eight billion in 2025 in comparison with about US$90.7 billion in 2020.
Increasing reliance on the Internet in the course of the pandemic resulted in a robust wave of development in large-screen, high-end smartphones – lots of them being 5G handsets – which brought on an upsurge of income for cellphone utility processors in 2020, IC Insights mentioned. Cellphone utility processor gross sales are anticipated to strengthen and climb 34% in 2021 to US$35.7 billion, when unit shipments and ASPs will rise 11% and 20%, respectively.
Sales of pc CPU microprocessors grew 14% in 2020 – the very best enhance for this MPU market phase in 10 years, in line with IC Insights. Portable private pc demand shot up in 2020 as a result of extra staff, college students and customers wanted Internet entry whereas being remoted at house in the course of the pandemic. Computer CPU processor gross sales are forecast to develop by a smaller 4% on yr to a document excessive of practically US$48.Four billion in 2021, when unit cargo development will gradual to six% from 12% in 2020, IC Insights mentioned.
In the embedded processor phase, gross sales are forecast to surge 11% in 2021 partly due to some MPU shortages in the course of the financial rebound this yr, IC Insights famous. Sales of embedded MPUs, which cowl a broad vary of system purposes such because the IoT, automotive, industrial, medical, client, telecom and networking gear, at the moment are anticipated to succeed in US$19.7 billion this yr with unit shipments rising 12%, in line with IC Insights.
