China Power Management IC Market Status and Trends

China Power Management IC Market Status and Trends

The past 5 years the market fell below 20% growth for the first time

Almost all electronic products will involve power | Regulators management, and power management markets directly affected by the electronic machine product yield. The past 5 years, in the downstream electronics production machine, driven by rapid growth, China's power management chip market maintained rapid growth, from 2003 to 2007, the market compound growth rate of 25%, but market growth in 2007 was only 15%, 5 years for the first time dropped below 20%, in after years of rapid development, the growth has significantly slowed its market, CCID Consulting believes that the direct reason is the growth rate is relatively lower machine Chanliang former Ji was an increase from slow, in the Chinese market, as the international transfer of electronic products manufacturing industry trends in China slowed to a variety of electronics production growth rate declined in varying degrees, and even some decline in output of some products. The decrease of production caused a decline in demand for the upstream chip. In addition, factors and power management chip stock prices fell factors also affect China's power management chip market, the main factors

Product breadth and diversity trends

To meet the different needs of many types of power management chips, and from a variety of products, market share, the market structure appear to be scattered, the largest share of the LDO can only account for 20% of the market. Second, DC-DC, Driver, and PMU, not market share to 15% share of all other products 10%. From the market perspective, LDO power management chip, although is the largest market share of products, but more as competing manufacturers, prices continue to fall, so the significant slowdown in development; and as mobile phones and other portable products, high demand, PMU and battery management chip into power management in China in 2007 the fastest growing chip market two products.

With the power management chip technology reduces the threshold, more and more Fabless (chip design company) began to relate to the fields, especially in Taiwan and mainland China makers, rapid development in recent years has been in the field of low-end power management chip to achieve management more successful, but it also led to the low-end power management chip market product homogeneity serious, intense market competition, product prices continued to decline. Although the international leader in high-end products still have the advantage of obvious, but in the lower end products, new companies have begun to influence Jinru Zhexieguoji manufacturers, in Henduo in Diduanchanpin market, the often Zhineng advantage by Jia Ge to win customers. Currently, the impact of price and the upstream chip production material prices, power management chip products, profit margins are continuous compression.

From product development, the power management chip showed the development trend of diversification, including while providing a number of different trends in supply voltage, digital power management trends, product design cycle is decreasing, reduced product size and cost trends trends so, however, remains the most noteworthy trend is integration, known for their integrated development of semiconductor products is a major trend, the power management chip no exception, of which the most obvious example is the PMU products, has been mobile phones and other products widely used, a PMU may integrate a number of LDO and DC-DC products, to achieve a variety of Power Management, Integrated trend is the most obvious example. In addition, a variety of chips with ever-increasing integration of functions, many chip integrates a power management features, such system vendors can not match the corresponding external power management chip. However, integration can not solve all the problems, a PMU is often only for certain types of applications, or even a product, from a perspective somewhat similar to ASSP (application specific standard products), the extended application of better separation solutions, and separation solution can demand to choose the most suitable power management chip, can achieve the highest efficiency, isolation and integration as their respective advantages, therefore, integrated and discrete solutions will always be a long time.

Communication, network and computer is still the main application areas

Consumption, network communications and computer power management chip market has been the most important application areas, still accounts for three major areas of power management IC market in China, nearly 80% market share. Developing speed, the computer field in 2007, the slowest growth areas, the whole production is a direct cause of the decline, although the notebook remains a high growth rate, but other products have a greater degree of release rate slow, and some product output even declined. 2007, the market is the biggest highlight of power management chip automotive electronics markets in more than 40% of the high growth rate, although the power management chip market in 2007 slowed development, but in a variety of automotive electronics, driven by rapid growth of machine production Next, the field of power management chip market continued high growth rates in recent years. However, should also see that the field of automotive electronics for power management chips smaller share of its fast growth does not bring the power management chip overall market growth.

From future application trends, automotive electronics will be the fastest growing areas, but the growth rate will gradually slow down, other areas will remain relatively steady pace of development, while the three major areas of network communications will be as escalation of a variety of network applications, while maintaining a relatively rapid rate of development.

Competitive landscape has not changed, foreign companies are still the mainstream

China's current brand of power management chip market is still constitute the leading foreign manufacturers, the market's top 10 foreign companies, without exception, all as of which U.S. manufacturers have obvious advantages. However, the power management chip market, the brand concentration in slow decline, in 2007 the top market share of 10 companies in 2006 based on the further decline of the top ten market share has been less than 50%, indicating that the market competition further intensified. Moreover, as China Taiwan and mainland China manufacturers to further explore the power management field, this trend will continue to the next, and along with the low-end power management products Jing Zheng, and product manufacturers increase the rising costs of materials, equipment margins was continuously compressed, these international leaders may give up part of the future low-end low-profit products business, power management chip market decline in brand concentration will continue the next few years.

While these international firms in low-end products are a great challenge, but the market brand concentration also decreased, but in order to meet the challenge, since 2008, the world's leading manufacturers were also adjusted, such as TI increased Dianyuan management inputs the acquisition of Irish power supply design company, and re-simulation business, increase the power management; Fairchild cooperation with Zilker Labs for communications and computing applications point of load digital power; in order to enhance strength and power management products, applications, Infineon acquired Primarion so. Now, the mainstream manufacturers in the field of high-end power management still has the technical and market advantages, such as mobile phones used by PMU, is often only by a few manufacturers supply small and medium sized companies (mainly Fabless) is very difficult to cut into the market, due to The technology and market strengths will be long because the next few years, power management market, the competitive landscape will be difficult to change.

Future market development will continue to slow

After years of rapid growth, China power management chip market base has been growing, and with the machine to manufacture or transfer to China the trend of slowing, China is difficult power management chip market growth in previous years there situation. Thus, after 2008, China Power Management IC market growth rate will gradually slow down, and, with market share market share of the growth Quanqiu, both the changes in the trend will almost consistent. CCID Consulting, China's market growth is expected in the next few years will be higher than the global market is still growth, but the gap between the two growth rates will narrow. By 2012, China's power management chip market will reach 64.92 billion yuan in the next 5 years, China's power management chip market compound growth rate of 16.3%, China's power management chip market will gradually slow down.

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PV Club: silicon solar technology is the dominant

PV Club: silicon solar technology is the dominant

Rising international oil prices to stimulate people’s nerves, in the conventional energy crisis today, as one of renewable solar energy with environmental protection for clean, inexhaustible features, quickly became the focus of attention, solar photovoltaic Industry also will heat up quickly. At the same time, as one of the polysilicon solar cell raw material prices are soaring, reaching a frenzied level, people see hope for the solar PV industry generated at the same time seems to be some doubts.

Promote development of large enterprises to join

Solar cell technology and investment industry because of its low threshold, high return on investment return period is short, has attracted many industrial giants join. Recently, not only BP and other energy giants involved, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Rohm and Haas and other chemical giants, and Bosch, Intel, IBM and Samsung and other leading semiconductor manufacturers are gearing up to join the field. Before that, as the world’s largest semiconductor equipment manufacturer Applied Materials, Inc. is also the field of thin film solar cell device into a lot of energy, trying to slice of this emerging market.

DuPont Electronic Technologies Division, Tim McCain, vice president and general manager, said: “Solar PV products in the market demand continues to grow, solar photovoltaic industry in the world have access to high-speed growth period.” The company expects the next few had Cuba V market annual growth rate of more than 30%, the company has been in product development and has invested heavily to increase production to meet market demand.

For many large company photovoltaic industry to join, the trade were welcomed, and that its their proven the Jishu and talents You Shi Hui promote Zhenggexingye are healthy Kuaisufazhan. China’s deputy chief engineer of ENFI Engineering Co., Ltd. Yantai Zhou told reporters, solar cell based on silicon as the substrate, the IC manufacturers to develop solar photovoltaic industry has a great advantage, they accumulate a lot of experience, including the production of ideas, technology base, clean environment, support systems, to enhance the solar cell technology will have a significant role in promoting. Traditional chemical material manufacturers have production experience and supporting chemical raw materials or auxiliary facilities and other advantages. Zevi said LDK is responsible for: “an integrated photovoltaic industry is very strong in the field, need to have the semiconductor, chemical, machinery, etc. Xiangguanzhishi of Rencai. Meanwhile, solar photovoltaic market is a Zengliang market, Dajiakeyi with Ba this’ cake ‘bigger. ”

However, these “newcomers” who in the industry have made some suggestions. China Electronics Materials Industry Association, Semiconductor Materials Branch of the Secretary-General Zhu Lihui that the current prices as the silicon material and solar cell prices down, the industry will be gradually squeezed profit margins. Yantai Zhou also proposed that an ultra-high pure polysilicon products, production processes with flammable, explosive, toxic, corrosive, etc., on the safe production and environmental protection needs extra attention. In addition, the complexity of the production of polysilicon, a long process, the international advanced technology has been from the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries blockade, control and monopolize the market to get into the polysilicon in the field need to have a good technical team and the sound of technical sources.

Zevi LDK official said after the entrants as the market will take some time to adjust to the market, and will face more intense competition. Of course, how to learn from each other to grow is the key to their own.

The dominant silicon solar technology

In the solar PV industry development, a variety of solar cell production technology, including crystalline silicon solar technology and thin film solar technology is the most talked-about both. Industry experts said that both have their advantages, do not appear totally replace the relationship. Stability of crystalline silicon solar cells, conversion efficiency, decay slowly, the high cost of a temporary problem. As the silicon in the crust is the most abundant elements oxygen removal than about the earth’s crust 1 / 4, so in the civilian area, crystalline silicon solar cells potential for development. “The advantages of thin film solar cells is silicon consumption was relatively low. As the price of polysilicon, thin film solar cell technology grew hot, but its power generation accounts for solar cells a small proportion of total generating capacity, combined with its relatively low conversion efficiency, fast decay Therefore, although the thin film solar cell R & D direction, but still can not account for a period of time applications dominance. “Zhu Lihui in the” China Electronics News “reporter interview. Yantai Zhou also said polycrystalline silicon solar cells will remain the mainstream, although in recent years, the price of the drive to make thin film polysilicon solar cells and other types of rapid development of solar cells, but transformation efficiency, raw material supply and other factors, the development of limited 2007 production accounted for only 8.75% of total production of solar cells.

However, the thin film solar cells will not go away, there is still useless. Zevi related LDK official said the company, thin film solar cell in some special applications, such as building-integrated engineering, glass curtain wall engineering field advantage. Rohm and Haas, President of China Hua Du also said that a large number of thin film solar cells are applied to market portable products. Applied Materials has launched the world’s first one is the only one in the 5.7 square meters of glass panels on the production of thin film solar cell production line integration, to achieve a breakthrough in this field. In short, these two technologies totally replace the relationship does not exist, but the two complement each other and jointly promote the development of solar photovoltaic industry.

There is also a concentrating solar energy technology that is installed on crystalline silicon solar cell concentrating devices to improve conversion efficiency. However, due to high cost of the device, are hard to rapid development.

No matter what technology is for, the application to improve efficiency and reduce costs is the same theme. Hua Du told reporters: “At present, the development of solar energy industry is the biggest challenge for solar energy conversion efficiency, mass production of solar energy conversion efficiency can reach 20% relative increase in the cost of solar energy applications. The future still need to overcome technical bottlenecks, improve the conversion efficiency of solar energy production . ”

At present, most countries, there is no reason why solar power grid, high cost is a major factor. DuPont Electronic & Communication Technology Services Platform Group Vice President of Miller, said: “photovoltaic system to achieve a reduction in construction Chengben to leave the market an important factor in sustained and rapid growth.” Erdui Yu polysilicon Jiage currently skyrocketing, the industry Renshiguandian also quite consistent: the rapid expansion of short-term needs of internal and industry, a serious shortage of materials, resulting in polysilicon prices soared. But in the long term, expansion of existing polysilicon suppliers, plants, industry and the continued expansion of polysilicon industry chain integration will make the price of their senses. Ping Huanpei told reporters, is expected to 2 to 3 years, polysilicon prices will drop 50% -60%.

Industry Calls for policies to expand domestic demand

Solar photovoltaic industry in China developed rapidly in recent years, the annual production of solar cells has surpassed the United States, Japan and Europe. However, our polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic industry and the industry’s current development situation is not optimistic about the emergence of the “two are in a foreign country,” the embarrassing situation. “90% of our polysilicon to high imports, while about 90% of the production of silicon solar cells are exported to foreign countries.” Zhu Lihui told reporters that “China will export low silicon to abroad, so much to lose. If go not to grasp the polysilicon industry, which imports the trend may continue for polysilicon 3 years to 5 years. “Zhu Lihui tone revealed a trace of frustration.

Zhu Lihui said that although China’s polysilicon production increases but also a substantial increase in consumption is expected to exist in 2010 and 40 000 -5 kt. Therefore, the development of China’s solar PV industry, how to further expand polysilicon production is an important issue. He believes that solution is to expand domestic demand for solar cells. Production of solar cells in China about 90% exported to foreign countries, a fact demonstrated a serious shortage of domestic demand. This is also subject to foreign solar cell industry in China. How to expand domestic demand? In his view, policy and legal support is essential. “Some developed countries introduced” Tariff Law, “and lists the specific measures to encourage the application of solar cells, and our laws in this area did not play a strong role in the support and encouragement. Although the state has adopted a” Chinese people Republic of the Renewable Energy Law “, but for solar cell applications, the lack of clear rules and supporting the implementation of feasible policies, in practice there are many difficulties in the process, have little effect.”

Zevi related to LDK’s head also said that strong government support towards the promotion of large-scale application of solar photovoltaic industry. Such as Germany, Spain, the Government’s support for very large, these countries are also rapidly developing solar PV industry, government support will be the trend. Beijing Express general manager of Ping Huanpei also said the state’s policy to support the promotion of solar photovoltaic industry entirely domestically, thereby reducing the cost and promote the rapid development of the entire industry.

 

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Creative brings waterproof speakers for the garden

Creative brings waterproof speakers for the garden

They look like rocks and receive music wirelessly. To Creative uses a proprietary system instead of Bluetooth. The price is $ 199 speakers.

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Wireless has agreed with the Rock Speaker released a speaker for outdoor installation. In the U.S., the piece will cost $ 199.

The speakers look like large rocks. They are waterproof. A storm or heavy rainfall, we should not expose the speakers, however, according to Creative.

The Rock Speaker does not need a cable to the PC or notebook. It is controlled wirelessly. However, Creative does not use Bluetooth, but the proprietary system Sound Blaster Wireless USB. The required USB connector costs an additional $ 100. The maximum range is 30 meters.

Replaceable battery as a power supply are integrated. They run for each volume after about six hours. Creative proposes to charge to let the speaker stand and remove only the battery.

In the U.S., the Sound Blaster Rock Speaker available now for $ 199 (photo: Creative Labs).

 

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