MCU market period Smart home into the main thrust, according to market tracking firm ABI Research report along with the Internet of things (IoT) market booming, more than 2015 nuclear microcontroller (MCU) chip sales volume has reached 150 million units, from 2015 to 2020, multi-core MCU chip sales will with 54% compound annual rate of growth, shipment will be jumped to 1.3 billion in 2020.
ABI Research said that industrial iot, wearable devices and intelligent household is the MCU main driving forces of the market, and the future market growth is largely dependent on the smart home industry. , intelligent household multi-core MCU 2020 total sales will exceed 450 million sets, grabbing market share of 36%. Intelligent household MCU market growth is mainly dealt with integrated connection and sensor control as well as the realization to the implementation of innovative software solutions the effects of continuous transformation, etc.
"Traditionally, equipment manufacturers tend to use more mononuclear MCU to deal with the function of multiple sensors and connection solution. Considering the simplified design, rapid prototyping and mononuclear MCU time to market, this trend will still be a dominant strategy." ABI Research strategy and technology vice President Malik said Saadi.
The most important of all, in order to adapt to the future Internet of things applications, network scalability, interoperability, and embedded intelligence, energy efficiency will become an integral part of the next generation of Internet equipment. These requirements will be long service life and processing equipment for the future of constantly updated to provide flexibility, make it become a necessary part of integrated multi-core MCU. In addition, multi-core MCU for intelligence software can assign, to support innovation and advanced functions, such as sensor fusion and artificial intelligence, etc.
On the market at present there have been many famous low-power low-cost multi-core MCU to choose from, many of which products include integrated connection, such as wi-fi, bluetooth, IEEE 802.15.4 and various kinds of MEMS sensors, such as the accelerometer, gyroscope, thermometer and magnetometer.
Some MCU vendors, such as freescale, and Texas instruments, the future will take the initiative to adopt multicore MCU strategy, and aim at heterogeneous connection and sensor function. Other manufacturers, however, the best method of semiconductor (STMicroelectronics) and grace wisdom pu (NXP) are relatively lagging behind, thanks in part to its focus too much on traditional products and customers, and in most cases, this does not require advanced features, also does not involve the use of innovative software solutions.
ABI Research said that the future MCU supplier integrating many connections and sensor solutions to a single MCU is crucial, and strive to improve the scale, cost optimization and chip area, reducing power consumption and integrated intelligent function. Instead, iot equipment suppliers will need to customize your own product, the market available, different connections and sensing to integrate more advanced features, to adapt to the rapidly changing market demand.
