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DSP Silicon Strategies '09

Report No: 9020

There has been a sea change in the worldwide market for digital signal processing silicon. Traditional DSP market measures are no longer meaningful for the purposes of product planning and sales strategy. Many components that were once reported as “DSP chips” are no longer. Rather, they are reported as systems on chip (SoC) in categories like ASICs or ASSPs, even by traditional DSP chip vendors like Texas Instruments and Analog Devices. Off-the-shelf or “discrete DSP chips” have become a small part of the DSP silicon universe. Specifically, discrete DSP chips now constitute only 11% of the $27 billion 2008 market, as illustrated below:

Forward Concepts, the premier market research firm tracking DSP silicon, has published this new in-depth market study guiding you through the market changes that have occurred and provides you with guidance as to where the worldwide market for DSP-centric silicon is the fastest growing.

The report readily acknowledges that 2009 will be a “down” year for most DSP silicon market segments, but long-range, the report points out that DSP is the technology that will drive the entire semiconductor market.

It should be noted that because of the drop in DSP shipments this year, 5-year compound average growth (CAGR) figures can be misleading, and we really should eye the market growth from the depths of 2009, rather than from 2008. For example, the worldwide DSP silicon market is forecast to grow at a 9.4% rate over the 5 years from 2008 through 2013 to the $43 billion level; however, from 2009, the 4-year growth rate is forecast at a more respectable 12.1% CAGR. Of course, some segments, like wireless and consumer electronics will grow at a much higher rate, as illustrated in the chart below:

This is the only market study providing worldwide electronic equipment production data (by region and by application market) and both IC and DSP content for each year from 2008 through 2013.

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AUTHORS

Will Strauss, President of Forward Concepts, is the author of this report. Mr. Strauss is an internationally-recognized authority on markets driven by DSP technology. Prior to founding Forward Concepts, he was Executive VP of In-Stat, Inc. and was earlier VP of Market Research for Integrated Circuit Engineering Corp. He has worked in communications design, marketing and sales. He has an Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and a Masters degree in business from Southern Methodist University. Mr. Strauss has been a columnist to several magazines and has had scores of articles on DSP, wireless and multimedia published.

SIZE:

230 Pages, 87 Figures, 51 Tables, plus extensive Appendix of Abbreviations & Acronyms for DSP, Communications & Multimedia.

Price
Hard Copy (B&W):
North American Price: $3,750.00
Additional copies: $500 ea. Air Courier Delivery: $50.00
International Price: $3,850.00
Additional copies: $600 ea. (International price includes Air Courier delivery)

Electronic (pdf):
An electronic version (PDF) of this report is available only on an enterprise-wide license basis for $7,500.00 (with worldwide rights to copy within a company and/or post on its corporate intranet).