據(jù)IC Insights “2012光電、傳感器/激勵(lì)器和分立器件 (O-S-D)報(bào)告”， 2016年前，傳感器市場(chǎng)將以兩位數(shù)的漲幅穩(wěn)步增長(zhǎng)，逐年刷新?tīng)I(yíng)收紀(jì)錄。這主要是受益于越來(lái)越多的系統(tǒng)產(chǎn)品需要許多新功能，如自我控制及保護(hù)，動(dòng)作捕捉，感測(cè)環(huán)境變量以及支持新的用戶界面等。報(bào)告還預(yù)測(cè)，2012年傳感器市場(chǎng)規(guī)模達(dá)到57億美元，相比于2011年的48億美元大增18%。

 

20世紀(jì)90年代后期以來(lái)，傳感器市場(chǎng)只遭遇過(guò)一次下跌，即2009年，市場(chǎng)營(yíng)收跌幅為2%。不過(guò)，2010年的復(fù)蘇來(lái)得極為猛烈，整體市場(chǎng)暴漲53%。2012年O-S-D 報(bào)告顯示，2011年的固態(tài)傳感器市場(chǎng)增長(zhǎng)幅度達(dá)到21%。預(yù)計(jì)2011年到2016年間，全球傳感器銷售額的復(fù)合年均增長(zhǎng)率（CAGR）達(dá)18％，2016年?duì)I收將達(dá)到109億美元。

 

 

按細(xì)分市場(chǎng)來(lái)看，加速計(jì)和陀螺儀器件仍是最大的細(xì)分市場(chǎng)，而且增長(zhǎng)速度也是最快的。預(yù)計(jì)加速計(jì)和陀螺儀將在2011年的24億美元基礎(chǔ)上，以20%復(fù)合年均增長(zhǎng)率增長(zhǎng)至2016年的59億美元。磁力計(jì)，包括霍爾傳感器和電子羅盤芯片，則會(huì)在2011年13億美元的基礎(chǔ)上，以16%的復(fù)合年均增長(zhǎng)率增長(zhǎng)至2016年的27億美元。壓力傳感器有望以15%的復(fù)合年均增長(zhǎng)率從2011年的10億美元增長(zhǎng)至2016年的20億美元。

 

加速度計(jì)和陀螺儀以及大多數(shù)的壓力傳感器都使用MEMS架構(gòu)來(lái)偵測(cè)環(huán)境。2005年，基于MEMS技術(shù)的傳感器占整體傳感器市場(chǎng)營(yíng)收的54%，目前這一數(shù)值約為70%。IC Insights預(yù)計(jì)，MEMS傳感器在2011年到2016年間的復(fù)合年均增長(zhǎng)率為19%。傳感器其實(shí)涵蓋于范圍更廣的半導(dǎo)體器件細(xì)分市場(chǎng)，這一市場(chǎng)包括如激勵(lì)器，微鏡，表面波濾波器，微流體芯片，噴墨噴嘴，以及基于電信號(hào)傳導(dǎo)制動(dòng)的MEMS器件等。而2011年，傳感器給這一市場(chǎng)貢獻(xiàn)了56%的營(yíng)收，包括來(lái)自于激勵(lì)器的44%。當(dāng)年，激勵(lì)器的營(yíng)收為37億美元。預(yù)計(jì)基于MEMS的激勵(lì)器營(yíng)收將以15%的復(fù)合年均增長(zhǎng)率增長(zhǎng)至2016年的75億美元。

New Embedded Features WIll More Than Double Sensor Sales by 2016

 

Semiconductor sensor sales will achieve double-digit growth rates and record-high dollar volumes each year through 2016 as more system products gain the ability to automatically control and protect themselves, understand movement, detect changes around them, and support new user interfaces, says IC Insights’ 2012 Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes (O-S-D) Report. The new report shows sensor sales growing 18% in 2012 to $5.7 billion, surpassing the $4.8 billion record set in 2011.

 

Since the late 1990s, annual sensor sales have declined only once, slipping just 2% in the 2009 downturn before surging 53% in the 2010 recovery year. The solid-state sensor market grew 21% in 2011. Between 2011 and 2016, worldwide sensor sales are expected to increase by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%, growing to $10.9 billion in the final forecast year of the new 2012 O-S-D Report (see Figure).

 

Within the sensor market segment, accelerometers and gyroscope devices (i.e., acceleration and yaw sensors) continue to be the largest and fastest-growing product category, with dollar volumes projected to increase by a CAGR of 20% to $5.9 billion in 2016 compared to $2.4 billion in 2011. Sales of magnetic-field sensors, such as Hall-effect devices and electronic compass chips, will grow by a CAGR of 16% to $2.7 billion in 2016 from $1.3 billion in 2011, according to IC Insights’ new O-S-D Report. Pressure sensor sales are expected to rise by a CAGR of 15% to $2.0 billion in 2016 from about $1.0 billion in 2011.

 

Accelerometers and gyroscope devices, along with most pressure sensors, use microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structures to measure and detect changes around them. MEMS-based devices now account for about 70% of total sensor revenues compared to 54% in 2005. The 2012 O-S-D Report shows MEMS-based sensors sales growing by a CAGR of 19% between 2011 and 2016. Sensors are part of a broader semiconductor market segment that also includes actuators, such as micro-mirror devices, surface-acoustic wave (SAW) filters, microfluidic chips, inkjet nozzle components, and other MEMS-based products that initiate physical actions from electronic signals. Sensor sales accounted for 56% of this market’s overall sales in 2011, while actuators represented 44%, or $3.7 billion, last year. MEMS-based actuator sales are expected to grow by a CAGR of 15% to $7.5 billion in 2016, according to the new O-S-D Report’s five-year forecast.