A senior analyst at Wall Street in the United States predicts that the semiconductor industry will see a typical growth level next year after a slight recession this year, and other market watchers think it will be better next year because PC and memory Of the demand growth, and can be compared with this year, flat or slightly growth performance.
Deutsche Bank analyst Ross Seymore in a recent report predicts that the chip market after the decline this year, about 1%, 2017 is expected to have 5% growth; and the data center will be the fastest growing next year, the field of application , The rate of up to 10%, followed by the automotive application market and communications applications market, are expected to have 9% and 7% growth rate.
As for the PC will be 2017 chip industry, a major burden, there will be a 2% decline; in addition to consumer electronics and industrial applications market is expected to grow about 4%, consistent with the overall chip market trends; Seymore also optimistic about the emerging Man-machine and virtual reality (VR) applications, and he said the main growth momentum in the industry will appear in the first half of 2017.
The latest forecast from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics Organization (WSTS) is conservative, and the agency predicts that chip market sales in 2016 will amount to $ 334.953 billion, down about 0.006% from 2015, while the chip market is at 2017 With 2018 is expected to achieve respectively 3.3% and 2.3% growth.
Independent semiconductor industry analyst Mike Cowen forecast data indicates that the chip industry performance in May reached the bottom, the recession rate of 6.2%, but after that gradually slowly back to warm, it is estimated that the overall performance in 2016 compared with last year, slightly recession 0.48%, but next year is expected to have 4.66% growth.
