Date: 5th Apr 2011

India's VLSI and embedded systems design market to reach $10.2B in 2012

As per the latest study by ISA-DIT, the India's semiconductor design industry, consisting of VLSI design, embedded systems design (both software and hardware/board design) is estimated at US$7.5 billion in 2010 and is expected to grow YoY at 17.3% and reach US$ 10.2 billion by year 2012. The study was released by Shri. Kapil Sibal, the Honorable Minister of Communications & Information Technology at ELITEX 2011.

The other few findings as per this study are as below:

1. The top 10 global fabless companies and the top 25 semiconductor companies have operations in      India

2. The Indian semiconductor design industry employed workforce strength of 160,000 in 2010. Of this      the largest number of jobs is in the embedded software space i.e. around 82%.

3. Increasing consumer electronic good sales, telecom/ networking market and growth in the use of     portable/ wireless products globally, are driving the growth of the semiconductor design industry

4. Emergence of technologies like LED screens, 3G, Wi-Max translates into increased demand for     semiconductor design

5. Automobile electronics in passenger and industrial vehicles are increasingly getting "smarter" with     on-board computer systems used to enhance safety and customer experience

The India's VLSI and embedded systems design market is mainly dirven by software programming capability of Indian engineers. The trend of more software and less hardware in any EE product design is helping the fast growth of Indian EE design industry.