Recently, World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) released the latest global semiconductor forecast value.
According to their predictions, the global semiconductor market size increased to 478 billion USD in 2018 and to 490 billion USD in 2019. Among them, 2018 increased by 15.9% over the same period last year. The above figures reflect the situation in the main areas: the growth rate of Memory (memory) is 33.2%, followed by Discretes (separate device) is 11.7%, and the final optoelectronic component is 11.2%. All regions are forecast to grow as expected in 2018.
According to their estimates, 2019 is expected to increase by 2.6% over 2018, with optoelectronic components contributing the most, followed by sensors and discrete devices.
In August this year, WSTS released their forecasts for the semiconductor industry. They said that the size of the world semiconductor market in 2018 was $ 477.101 billion, an increase of 15.7% from $ 412.22 billion in 2017. Its growth rate has fallen by 5.9 percentage points from 21.6% in 2017; the market size in 2019 is expected to be 502.04 billion US dollars, an increase of 5.2% year-on-year, and a 10.5 percentage point decrease from 2018.
They said that the growth rate in 2018 mainly came from memories, analog circuits, discrete devices and optoelectronic devices. Among them, due to the year-on-year increase of 61.5% in 2017, the memory dropped to 30.5% due to the adjustment of the product structure of many large memory manufacturers and the elimination of some low-end and small-capacity products; at the same time, the market ’s demand for memory has increased. Minus and some manufacturers intend to control production capacity and hoarding, and jointly promote global shortages, forming a situation in the memory market prices. The price of NAND Flash has fallen in 2018.
Analog circuits grew by 12.0% in 2018.Among them, advanced systems and power management analog circuits help the growth and development of the industry; automotive electronics and automotive applications have led to the rapid growth of analog circuits; communications and consumer applications have also made analog ICs the largest user (data Converter, mixed information IC, etc.).
In 2018, discrete devices increased 11.5% year-on-year, optoelectronic devices increased 9.4% year-on-year, and sensors grew 8.3% year-on-year (half from 2017).
WSTS's valuation of the development of the global semiconductor industry in 2018 is also from low to high, adjusted according to the growth rate of the market development, from the estimated revenue of 437.27 billion US dollars (a 7.0% increase) to the revenue of 464.6 billion US dollars in early 2018 , A year-on-year increase of 12.4%, an increase of 5.4 percentage points; at the end of August 2018, it was raised to USD 477.101 billion, an increase of 15.7% year-on-year, and an increase of 3.3 percentage points.
WSTS also adjusted the development of the global semiconductor market in 2019 from low to high, with a valuation increase of 4.4% in June 2018 and an estimated scale of US $ 483.72 billion, which is still a record high; it is now adjusted to increase by 5.0% year-on-year. The growth rate increased by 0.6 percentage points. In the product category, memory sales reached 169.156 billion US dollars. After two consecutive years of peak growth, it slowed down and increased by 4.6% year-on-year (toward a stable development period), but it remained the first product category. The role of weather vanes, thermometers and ballast stones.