World Automotive Semiconductor Markets

Abstract

Automotive electronics are major criteria of differentiation in the automotive market. Car manufacturers use chips in increasing numbers to develop powerful electronic systems for driver information and communication, in-car entertainment electronics, power train and body control electronics as well as automotive safety and convenience electronics. By 2005, one quarter of the value of the average car will be comprised of electrical and electronics components; half of these will be semiconductors.

Maximizing business opportunities in the automotive semiconductor arena is a challenging task. The desperate efforts of companies to safeguard margins along the industry value chain dramatically have changed the competition pattern.

This BCC study focuses on key semiconductor products and key applications in automotives, and provides data about the size and growth of the automotive semiconductor market, company profiles and industry trends. Also this report provides a detailed and comprehensive multiclient study of the market in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea and rest-of-world, and potential future business opportunities. This report provides extensive quantification of the many important facets of market developments in automotive semiconductors in the world. This, in turn, contributes to the determination of what kind of strategic response companies may adopt to compete in this dynamic market.

SCOPE OF STUDY

The report contains:

• Examination that covers the many issues concerning the merits and future prospects of the automotive semiconductor business
• Market data, quantifying opportunities for automotive semiconductors with forecasts through 2009
• Analysis by semiconductor types
• Corporate strategies, information technologies, and the way to provide these highly advanced product and service offerings
• Detailed coverage of the economic and technological issues critical to the industrys current state of change
• A review of the automotive specified semiconductor industry and its structure, and the many companies involved
• Discussion of the competitive position of the main players in the market and the strategic options they face.