Electrical Equipment / Components & Telecoms

According to the latest report released by the research organization ICInsights recently, this year's overall MPU (microprocessor) sales will reach 103.7 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 14% year-on-year, and it will exceed 100 billion U.S. dollars for the first time, setting a record high.

The report also pointed out that strong growth in the unit price and shipments of mobile application processors has led to a rapid increase in microprocessor sales this year.

ICInsights also predicts that this year’s microprocessor shipments will reach 2.5 billion units, an annual increase of 11%, and the overall unit sales price will also rise by 4%. The report also raised the compound annual growth rate of the microprocessor market in the past five years to 7.1%, and sales in 2025 are expected to reach 127.8 billion U.S. dollars.

IT Home understands that according to the application areas of microprocessors, microprocessors can be roughly divided into three categories: general-purpose high-performance microprocessors, embedded microprocessors, digital signal processors, and microcontrollers. Generally speaking, general-purpose processors pursue high performance, run general-purpose software, and are used in mobile phones and other devices.

According to a previous report by StrategyAnalytics, the global smartphone processor market in the first quarter of 2021 increased by 21% year-on-year to US$6.8 billion. Among them, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Apple, Samsung and Huawei HiSilicon ranked the top five in terms of revenue share in the global mobile phone processor market in the first quarter of 2021.