According to a new market research report of "Semiconductor (Silicon) IP Market by Form Factor (Integrated Circuit IP, SOC IP), Design Architecture (Hard IP, Soft IP), Processor Type (Microprocessor, DSP), Application, Geography and Verification IP - Forecast & Analysis to 2013 - 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.6% from 2014 to 2020 and reach $5.63 Billion in 2020.
Integrated Circuit (IC) design teams are constantly struggling with the increasing pressure to make end user products smaller in size, more reliable, affordable, with more advanced features, and superior performance, all in the face of decreasing product life cycles and time to market. While semiconductor manufacturing processes have transformed significantly to allow a phenomenal increase in the number of electronic circuits incorporated on a single chip (with the advent of System-on-Chips), design capabilities resources have not kept pace with the developments in this technology ensuing in a widening design gap between their advancing manufacturing potential and restrained design capabilities.
In order to address this widening design gap, several semiconductor designers and manufacturers are progressively choosing to license silicon-proven intellectual property (IP) such as processor cores, memory and application-specific logic blocks, and many more, from third party Semiconductor (silicon) Intellectual Property (SIP) companies rather than developing those technologies internally.
The SIP industry is a relatively new market compared to the gigantic parent Semiconductor market and has been increasing every year at a tremendous growth rate owing to this trend of third-party SIP. The global Semiconductor IP Market by revenue is estimated to reach $5.63 Billion in 2020 at a CAGR of 12.6% from 2014 to 2020.
It also covers the IP market by form factor (System-on-Chip IP and Integrated Circuit IP), design architecture (hard core IP, soft core IP, standard IP core, customizable IP core, general processor IP, and embedded processor IP), processor type (microprocessor IP and digital signal processor IP), application sectors (computer and peripherals, mobiles and tablets, networking technologies, telecom infrastructure, home entertainment, automotive, security, medical, aerospace, defense, and RF devices), and geography. The major silicon IP market segments covered in the report include general purpose, processor, application specific, programmable, digital, analog and mixed signal, memory, and data converter IP market. SoC IP segment is expected to have a high growth rate than its respective Integrated Circuit IP markets. In this research study, the verification IP market is also covered as a separate market segment other than silicon IP market.
This report provides a detailed classification of the Semiconductor IP Market done with in-depth market coverage and analysis of all segments. Each classification done for the global Semiconductor IP Market has extensive sub segments with market estimates and revenue forecasts from 2014 to 2020. It also identifies the major drivers, restraints, opportunities with analysis of latest industry trends, imperatives, and challenges. A detailed value chain analysis and porter's five forces analysis is also included in the study. The market is also segmented on the basis of major geographies such as Americas (the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America), Europe (the U.K., Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands), Japan, Asia Pacific (China, South Korea, Taiwan, and India) and Rest of the World.
The report also gives a detailed overview of the Semiconductor IP Market's competitive landscape, the overall revenues of all the key industry players, the revenue from Semiconductor IP for each of the individual players, market shares, market share rankings, and competitive landscape dynamics with detailed analysis in each case. The report also lists the company profiles of all the major industry players of the Semiconductor IP Market. The leading market players include ARM (U.K.), Cadence Design Systems (U.S.), Imagination Technologies (U.K.), Synopsys (U.S.), Rambus (U.S.), Silicon Image (U.S.), and CEVA (U.S.) among others. Overall, the report gives a bird's eye-view of the total Semiconductor IP Market and industry with extensive research and analysis on the detailed segmentation and classification done on this market in every possible way and at every level.
