NEW
— September 2009
The Petrov Group introduces a new
landmark report in its Power Management IC Series titled:
●
Power ICs in
Portable Devices
–
Markets, Vendors, Technologies and
Integration
Trends
The report focuses on IC
integration trends for each of eleven power applications in
twelve key device types. There are six power IC integration
domains in handheld and portable devices; each requires a
specific product, technology, and market approach.
The market for power ICs will
continue to be of major strategic importance to most end-system
and IC vendors. Insights into the integration domains of power
ICs explain, for example, why a 60-transistor power IC often
exceeds the price and profitability of a PMU with hundreds of
thousand transistors. There is a strong correlation between
vendor gross margins and the type of power management ICs they
target.
Power management ICs in portable
devices alone represent nearly 40 percent of total analog IC
revenues reported by WSTS. The market includes a large number of
typically “uncounted” ICs—in 2008 the number of power ICs ranged
from about twenty in Notebooks to about seven in Bluetooth
headsets.
NEW
— August 2009
The Petrov Group introduces a
new
report titled:
●
ICs for ESD and EMI Protection
–
Markets and
Integration Trends
This “hidden” market was
already nine times larger than reported by WSTS statistics in
2008. Moreover, there are profound changes in the semiconductor
ESD and EMI protection market, specifically its accelerating
transformation and migration – from Discretes into ICs
The IC-based integration trend of
ESD and EMI protection solutions will significantly increase the
total market within a relatively short period – driven primarily
by high-speed interfaces and mobile applications. The emerging
IC-based ESD and EMI protection market creates numerous high
margin and high ASP business opportunities. Report analyses of
two pure play vendors illustrate the financial and risk
implications in opposite approaches to the ESD protection
business.
NEW
— July 2009
The Petrov Group introduces two
new
reports titled:
●
The Rise of BCD Technology in Power
ICs
– Where and Why
●
BCD-based Integration Platform for Analog
ICs
– A
Significant Value-Added Opportunity
for IC Vendors
The accelerating growth of
Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) confirms that it meets the requirements
of an ideal analog integration technology. Its system-level
benefits are as substantial as the benefits of the historic
digital CMOS integration in terms of system cost-effectiveness,
reliability, high performance, and programmability.
The BCD platform has been
implemented in all end-application types, and across the entire
analog domain and levels of integration – from single-function
ICs to highly integrated SoC solutions.
Vast majority of new LED driver designs are
now BCD-based.
