Tuesday, June 22, 2010
After falling by 19 percent in 2009, sales of image sensors will grow by 31 percent in 2010, reaching a new record of $8.5 billion, according to projections from market research firm IC Insights Inc.
The 2009 decline was the worst suffered by image sensors since the 2001 semiconductor recession, when the market segment fell by 24 percent, IC Insights (Scottsdale, Ariz.) said. The projected 31 percent increase in 2010 would be the biggest sales jump for image sensors since 2004, when the market surged by 76 percent, according to the firm.
The projected growth of image sensors in 2010 is being driven by recovering demand for digital cameras, camera phones and machine-vision systems, according to IC Insights. CMOS-based image sensors are expected to account for about 61 percent of image sensor sales in 2010, compared with 39 percent for charge-coupled devices (CCD), according to the 2010 version of IC Insights' IC Optoelectronics, Sensors and Discretes (O-S-D) Report. The new report's forecast shows CMOS image sensors sales rising 34 percent in 2010 to a record-high $5.2 billion from nearly $3.9 billion in 2009, when revenues fell 16 percent due to the economic recession, IC Insights said.
Between 2009 and 2014, CMOS image sensor sales are projected to increase at a 17 percent compound average growth rate, reaching $8.3 billion in the final year of the forecast period, IC Insights said.
CCD image sensor sales are forecast to rise 27 percent in 2010 to $3.3 billion after falling 24 percent in 2009 to $2.6 billion, IC Insights said. CCDs, which continue to dominate digital still cameras, video camcorders, scanners and other machine imaging applications, are expected to set a new sales record in 2011, when dollar volumes reach nearly $3.7 billion and exceed the current annual peak of $3.5 billion set in 2006, according to the firm. The 2010 O-S-D Report forecasts that CCD sales will grow at an 8 percent CAGR in the five-year forecast period, reaching $3.8 billion in 2014.
Total image sensor sales continue to be the largest segment in the optoelectronics market., IC Insights said In 2009, image sensor revenues accounted for 35 percent of the $18.3 billion optoelectronics market, followed by solid-state lamp devices (primarily LEDs), which represented 31 percent of the sales total, according to the O-S-D Report.
By 2014, total LED sales will be roughly equal to image sensors at $12.1 billion, based on the report's forecast.
By: DocMemory
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