Internet of Things integrated circuit sales expected to grow 15.9% a year over the next four years, with MCUs and SoC processors
seeing the strongest growth according to one of the most reliable market researchers.
Between 2015 and 2019, worldwide systems revenues for
applications connecting to the Internet of Things will nearly double, reaching
$124.5 billion in the final year of this decade, according to Bill McClean of IC Insights in his 2016 edition of the IC Market Drivers report. During that same
timeframe, new connections to the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow from about
1.7 billion in 2015 to nearly 3.1 billion in 2019 - that's more than five for every person on the planet, but that's still one of the more conservative forecasts.
Figure 1: Growth in IoT connections to 2019
The new IC Market Drivers report shows about 30.0
billion Internet connections are expected to be in place worldwide in 2020,
with 85% of those attachments being to web-enabled “things” — commercial, industrial, and consumer systems, distributed sensors,
vehicles, and other connected objects, all with embedded silicon controllers and transceiver. The remaining 15% is in electronics used by humans to
communicate, download and receive streams of data files, and search for online
information. This marks a complete reversal from the Internet boom of 2000, when 85% of 488 million
Internet connections providing human users with online access to the World Wide
Web and the remaining 15% serving embedded systems, remote sensing and
measurements, control, and machine-to-machine communications.
Strong double-digit increases in the Internet of Things
market will drive up IC sales in IoT applications by a compound annual growth
rate (CAGR) of 15.9% between 2015 and 2019 to about $19.4 billion in the final
year of this decade (Figure 2), according to the new report. IoT
applications will also fuel strong sales growth in optoelectronics,
sensors/actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D), which are projected to
rise by a CAGR of 26.0% between 2015 and 2019 to $11.6 billion in four years.
The new IC Market Drivers report shows microcontrollers and
system-on-chip microprocessors topping integrated circuit sales growth with a
CAGR of 22.3% in the next four years, followed by memories at 19.8%,
application specific standard products (ASSPs) at 16.4%, and analog ICs at an
annual growth rate of 12.7%.
In the forecast, wearable systems are projected to be the fastest growing
IoT application with sales increasing by a CAGR of 59.0%, thanks in great part
to a 440% surge in 2015 due to the launch of Apple’s first smartwatches in
2Q15. Sales of IoT-connected wearable systems are expected to reach $15.2
billion in 2019 compared to $1.5 billion in 2014 and about $8.1 billion in
2015.
Meanwhile, connected vehicles (passenger cars and light
trucks) are expected to be the second fastest market category for IoT
technology with revenues growing by a CAGR of 31.5% between 2014 and 2019 to
$5.3 billion in the final year of this decade.
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