Keeping Ahead of the Curve with Custom ASICs
200mm Capacity Outlook
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taking place and this drives an increase in the
number of components in a system
performing
the
processing
and
communication
demands.
Accurate
monitoring of these sensors is vital and there
also needs to be a seamless flow of correct
information in and out of systems, which is
driving an increase in the proliferation of
specialized types of integrated chips and
circuits, such as custom ASICs to meet these
needs.
Market reports from Frost & Sullivan 4 are
predicting that the revenue from the global
sensor market in IIoT alone will grow to
$11.23 billion by 2021 with a CAGR of 16.8%.
While the analyst firm IDC 5 is projecting the
worldwide spend on IoT to surpass the $1
trillion mark in 2020 with manufacturing
being one of the industries that is expected
to spend the most.
As IoT adoption increases, there is also
growth in the level of automation and the
number of sensors being monitored.
Changes in the Industrial market are
occurring as the move from being reactive to
being predictive occurs. This has a knock-on
effect on increasing the levels of monitoring
4
Chip Technology
In 1965, Gordon Moore highlighted how the
number of transistors per square inch of
integrated circuit had doubled every year
since their invention. This observation
became known as Moore’s Law and it has
Frost & Sullivan, Analysis of Sensors in the Global Internet of Industrial Things Market, 2015
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IDC, Worldwide Semi-Annual Internet of Things Spending Guide
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171207005963/en/IDC-Forecasts-Worldwide-Spending-Internet-Things-Reach
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