THE EMBEDDED CHIP TREND CONTINUES

Report No: 7010

The market for general-purpose digital signal processor (DSP) chips is forecast to grow 8% in 2007 to the $9 billion level according to this new market study.  The study predicts a more typical growth of 15% in 2008 driven by communications and multimedia applications.  But the study also emphasizes the even bigger embedded DSP market that will grow to $17.6 billion in 2007, to almost twice the size of the general-purpose DSP chip market. This new in-depth study is believed to be the most comprehensive study available of markets driven by DSP technology, and includes the results of a new survey of DSP professionals in over 30 countries.

Forward Concepts is pleased to offer this as the most comprehensive market study on DSP silicon and IP available, covering both the general-purpose programmable DSP market, and the embedded DSP market which consists of other chip types, including ASSPs, ASICs, FPGAs, RISC/DSP combos, Function-Specific DSPs, MPUs & MCUs with DSP features, and DSP state machines. And we cover them all in this report.

The general-purpose DSP market is the best known and is dominated by Analog Devices, Freescale, Agere/LSI and Texas Instruments. The embedded DSP market, on the other hand, is where most new opportunities for emerging companies are because of lower barriers to entry.  For example, a number of new companies identified in the study are introducing parallel array processor chips for unprecedented DSP horsepower on a single chip at relatively low clock frequencies and reduced power consumption.

This is the only market study providing worldwide electronic equipment production data (by region and by market application) and IC and DSP content for each from 2006 through 2011.

About the Author:
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 published.

Size
338 Pages, 105 Figures, 71 Tables, and 36-page appendix of abbreviations and acronyms along with a glossary of DSP terminology.

Price
Hard Copy:
North American Price: $3,895.00
Additional copies: $500 ea.
International Price: $3,995.00
Additional copies: $600 ea.

An electronic version (PDF) of this report is available only on an enterprise-license basis for $8.000.00 (with worldwide rights to copy within a company and/or post on the corporate intranet).