传感器/制动器2014年全球销售额将增14%至99亿美元

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元器件交易网讯4月11日消息，据外媒报道，据2014年O-S-D报告显示，由于加速度计、陀螺仪和磁场传感器增长放缓和价格侵蚀，以及持续的疲软致动器，传感器/制动器市场去年销量平平，2013年总收入仅增加0.3%，略高于87亿美元。随着全球经济的改善和新系统应用程序恢复增长，预计在2014年开始会迎来新一波的强劲增长。

2014年传感器和致动器的全球销售预计将增长14%，创历史新高达到99亿美元，2015年将增加16%达到114亿美元。在2013年至2018年之间，传感器/制动器市场预计将以11.7%的复合年增长率(CAGR)增长，2018年将达到151亿美元。

新的O-S-D报告的预测显示，预计今年将在压力传感器(增长18%至16亿美元)、加速度/偏航传感器(增长14%至近29亿美元)、和磁场传感器(增长13%至16亿美元)等领域创下纪录新高。制动器的类目预计在2014年结束两年的销售低迷，增长11%达到约36亿美元。

（元器件交易网董蕾译）

外媒原文如下：

For 10 years, sensors and actuators have been the semiconductor industry’s fastest growing market segment, driven by higher levels of embedded control, new wireless sensing applications, and intelligent portable systems—such as smartphones—that can respond to changes in their environment and locations. However, in 2013, this normally vibrant category lost momentum and showed nearly no sales increase in the year, according to IC Insights’ new2014 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes. The sensors/actuators market was flattened last year by slow unit growth and price erosion in its two largest sensor product categories—accelerometers/gyroscopes and magnetic-field sensors—as well as ongoing weakness in actuators, based on the analysis in the new2014 O-S-D Report.

The slowdown in sensors and actuators had been brewing for a couple years with sales in this market plateauing in the 2011-2013 timeframe after surging to record-high levels from the 2009 downturn. Inventory corrections in some cellphone segments, falling average selling prices (ASPs), and delays of purchases by cautious system makers caused the sensors/actuators business to stall out in 2013 with total revenues increasing just 0.3% to slightly more than $8.7 billion, but a new wave of stronger growth is expected to begin in 2014 as the global economy improves and new systems applications rejuvenate sales (Figure 1).

Worldwide sales of sensors and actuators are forecast to grow 14% to a new all-time high of $9.9 billion in 2014, followed by a 16% increase in 2015 to $11.4 billion, according to the new 350-page report, which also contains extensive coverage of optoelectronics and discrete semiconductors. Between 2013 and 2018, the sensors/actuators market is projected to rise by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.7% to reach $15.1 billion in the final forecast year of the2014 O-S-D Report. Among the market growth drivers identified in the report are new multi-sensor smartphone platforms, wearable systems (such as smart watches, wireless medical devices, and personal activity trackers), “Internet of Things” applications, radio-frequency filtering actuators, pocket-sized projectors built with micro-mirror devices, laboratory-on-chip testing tools for drug, disease, and DNA analysis, microphone chips, fingerprint-identification sensors, and more automotive sensors for higher levels of safety and automation of driving.

Figure 1

In 2013, total sensor revenues grew by a below-average rate of 3% to reach a new record-high $5.4 billion compared to about $5.3 billion in 2012. Since 2003, semiconductor sensor sales have increased by a CAGR of 13% but growth rates have slowed in recent years. In 2013, revenues grew in two of the four of the sensor product categories, according to the newO-S-D Report. Pressure sensor sales strengthened significantly in 2013, climbing 16% to a new all-time high of $1.3 billion due to new measurement applications in smartphones and other portable systems, medical equipment, embedded-control applications, and healthy growth rates in automotive markets. However, acceleration/yaw sensor sales (for accelerometers and gyroscope devices) declined 2% to slightly less than $2.5 billion in 2013, while revenues for magnetic-field sensors (including electronic compass chips) fell 1% to $1.4 billion in the year. Built with MEMS technology, acceleration/yaw sensors—the largest sensor category in terms of dollar volume—had not suffered a sales decline since 2005. Magnetic-field sensors—the largest unit-volume sensor category and second in dollar sales—had grown by double-digit annual percentages between 2010 and 2012 after declining 22% in the 2009 downturn.Meanwhile, the large-but-eclectic actuator product category declined 4% in 2013 to about $3.3 billion after dropping 10% in 2012.[!--empirenews.page--]

The newO-S-D Report’sforecast shows all product categories in the sensors/actuators market strengthening with double-digit sales increases in 2014. New record-high sales are expected to be set in pressure sensor (+18% to $1.6 billion), acceleration/yaw sensors (+14% to nearly $2.9 billion), and magnetic-field sensors (+13% to $1.6 billion). The actuator category is projected to end its two-year sales slump in 2014, rising 11% to about $3.6 billion, according to the newO-S-D Report’sforecast.