Strong rebound in consumer electronics growth High-end CE chip development costs continue to rise

According to the latest forecast report of research institute iSuppli, the consumer electronics device market and related semiconductor market will experience strong rebound growth in 2010; it is estimated that sales of consumer electronics equipment will reach US$259 billion this year. Last year, the market suffered a drop of more than 3% in revenue.

The agency also expects that consumer electronics market revenue will continue to grow in the next few years. It is estimated that there will be 6.7%, 7% and 1.2% growth from 2011 to 2013, but it will decline slightly by 0.6% in 2014. As for consumer electronics applications, the semiconductor market revenue is estimated to reach 57.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2010, up 27.7% from 44.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2009; the market will decline by 15.7% in 2009, but it is also expected to continue to grow. And in 2014 it reached a scale of 69.4 billion U.S. dollars.

"The growth in consumer electronics revenue is currently driven by high-value and high-volume LCD TVs, Blu-ray drives and other devices;" said Jordan Selburn, chief analyst of the iSuppli consumer platform: "A high-value consumer electronics product The chip design case will earn at least $100 million in revenue throughout the product life cycle."

However, Selburn also pointed out that the cost of developing high-end special application chips has continued to increase, ranging from 10 million to 20 million US dollars, which has brought pressure to the company's small second- and third-tier chip suppliers. Small businesses may not be able to afford the costs of higher-level processes.