Abstract
The entire analog market accumulated $35.6 billion in total revenue in 2008
making it one of the largest semiconductor segments overall. This represented
a 2 percent decline from 2007 when the total market accounted for $36.5
billion. Regionally, Asia Pacific remained the single largest market for
analog with 19.2 billion or 54 percent of the total available market. Japan
was the only region to experience positive growth from 2007 with an increase
of 3 percent from $5.7 billion to $5.9 billion.
Communications ASSPs (application specific standard products) were the single
largest category with $8.1 billion in revenue in 2008. Analog power was the
second largest market segment in 2008 with $7.6 billion, a 7 percent increase
from the prior year.
In terms of suppliers, Texas Instrument led the industry in 2008 with $5
billion in worldwide sales or 14 percent of the market, which was a 5 percent
decline from 2007. STMicroelectronics was the second largest analog supplier
with 3.9 billion and 11 percent of the world' s analog sales. ST' s fellow
European supplier Infineon followed with 2.8 billion in revenue or 8 percent
of the total market share. Analog Devices surpassed NXP in 2008 as the fourth
largest supplier with $2.3 billion; while NXP lost 20 percent of its analog
sales and fell from $2.7 billion in 2007 to $2.2 billion in 2008.
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