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Airbag market growth shifts to emerging regions, IMS says February 02, 2012
With seatbelts and airbags recognised to be an essential safety feature within a car, the market continues to grow: IMS Research has concluded that the global fitment rate is only set to increase, with almost 90% of new production cars having at least one airbag fitted as standard by 2018.Semiconductor ...
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London will be European electromobility capital, Frost & Sullivan finds
January 24, 2012
Despite strong recent activities in other regions, London is expected to become the European capital of electric vehicles, states market research company Frost & Sullivan. Driven by an array of incentives, the UK currently drives in the pole position when it comes to electromobility.
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ARM architecture leads in the automotive market, Semicast finds
December 14, 2011
Semiconductor market research company Semicast has analyzed market position and potential of the most popular 32-bit embedded processor architectures for automotive applications. According to the Semicast experts, ARM leads the market - and in the foreseeable future, the company will even increase its ...
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Gentex, Continental grab extra 10% of car camera market
November 24, 2011
Whilst the automotive camera module market is growing rapidly, the supplier base is consolidating so that not all suppliers are benefiting from this growth. The latest market share numbers from IMS Research show that the two leading suppliers of front camera modules, Gentex and Continental, will increase ...
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Instrument clusters go digital
November 17, 2011
Instrument clusters with electronic displays are increasingly supplanting electromechanical pointer instruments. The trend is taking up speed, says market research company IMS.
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Automotive, smartphone applications drive silicon magnetic sensor revenue
September 12, 2011
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Lifted by the strong automotive sector and rising global demand for digital compasses in smartphones and tablets, the market for silicon magnetic sensors is enjoying accelerated growth, with revenue in 2011 set to rise a strong 23.7 percent, according to a new IHS iSuppli MEMS & Sensors Special Report ...
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Electric vehicles to boost analog IC demand
August 31, 2011
The market for semiconductors to be used in electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) is expected to quadruple between 2011 and 2018, reaching $2 billion, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics Inc.
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Automotive MEMS sensors to return to healthy growth in 2012
August 24, 2011
The automotive microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensor market will reach new heights in 2012, leaving behind the ups and downs of the last two years, including the impact of the recent Japan earthquake, according to the new IHS iSuppli Automotive MEMS Market Tracker from information and analysis ...
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Mobile phones beat dedicated navigation systems
August 15, 2011
German IT industry association Bitkom observes significant shifts in the market for navigation systems. The association expects that in the current year the number of dedicated navigation systems will decline by 11 percent; at the same time, the number of navigation apps for mobile phones and tablet ...
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Analyst sees strong market potential for passive entry and start systems
July 15, 2011
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Manufacturers of Passive Keyless Entry (PKE) and passive keyless start systems can expect an enormous growth for almost the entire decade. Market research company Strategy Analytics predicts the market volume to more than double.
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