China, mobile, IoT and automotive to shuffle semiconductor vendor ranking in 2014-15

The semiconductor market started shifting its centre of gravity to Asia during PC boom of late 80s, and the swirlwind of action now is in China. Asia consumed approximately 60% global semiconductor output in year 2014 and in that China's share is more than 60%. China is not only the world's electronics factory, and is also fast emerging as semiconductor device factory of the world. IC chips are now fabricated in China at 28nm, node at which the maximum sales of chips are now happening. China's share in non-IC semiconductor business such as opto (image sensor), mems and discrete semiconductor business is continuously growing. This trend which started in 2013 continues in 2014 and forecasted to continue in 2015. What type of semiconductor products sales revenue grew world-wide in 2014? Mobile devices have consumed maximum of the semiconductor output. The fast growing market is memory which includes NAND flash and DRAM basically due to demand of their use in mobile devices. Demand for high efficiency power supply regulation in solar PV inverters, ac/dc adapters of mobile devices and electric vehicles have created market growth for power supply ICs and discrete power semiconductor devices. IoT, smart home, security and automotive is driving growth of microcontroller chips, security ID chips, analog IC chips and short range wireless chips and sensors. Wearable devices has ...