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According to market research from iSuppli,it can be predicted that the shipments of the world's image sensor market in 2007 is 1.095 billion pcs, an increase of 19% over the previous years, and 2013’s is expected to grow to 2 billion pcs, with an annual growth rate of over 10%. And speaking from shipment value, since the 2006 summit, in the case of price stumble endlessly, there is a growing slowing trend. 2007 market size is of $ 5.487 billion , in 2011 is almost $ 4.663 billion, declining at an average annual rate of 5% Table: World image sensor market Unit: one hundred million pcs; $ one hundred million Source: iSuppli Image sensor has CCD (Charge Coupled Device) and a CIS (CMOS image sensor) two categories. It is predicted that from 2007 to 2011 the CCD sensor shipments will decline from 167 million to 144 million, meanwhile CIS will quickly rise from 929 million to 1.568 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 14%. The former one shipment value will fell to $ 2.436 billion from $ 1.086 billion over the same period, down more than half; the latter one will rise from $ 3.051 billion to $ 3.577 billion, but with an average annual growth rate not over 4 percent. CCD continues use for some digital cameras, digital video cameras and security products and so on, but the amount has not grown. Digital camera is at least 20 million pixel level, industrial level is over 50 million.It is still moving toward the high-pixel, which is about four years to double, there is no end in sight, especially where minimachines are applied. The growth of mobile phone which is powering CIS forward, currently is of 70% of CIS’s shipments, other Web cameras used for video conferencing and automotive applications are also two types of markets in more than 100 million shipments. Mobile phone market will be at an annual rate of 15.6 percent rapid growth by amout, as expected in 2011 will be considerably more than 1.5 billion. In the digital camera market, CIS is mainly for SLR cameras, while in the minimachines the CCD is also being gradually replaced by CIS. Compared with the CCD, CIS has a low price, so in the entire image sensor market, the value of the two shipments is each half of it in 2006, till 2009 CIS will account for two thirds of the market, when in 2011 will be further increased to accounting for 77%. CIS applied atmobile phones will also grow to higher pixel, but technically there is also great difficulties to break through 5 million pixel, in Motorola's latest mobile phones at the moment, there is one tenth of the 1.3 million pixel configuration of CIS, but still no breakthrough. In the image sensor market, based on the shipment value, Sony stands in the first place, occupying 26% of the share, Micron and Sharp stand in second place, each with 13%, ST ranks fourth, accounting for 9%, Omni Bixing is the fifth, accounting for 8 %. In CIS market, Micron grab the top spot, accounting for 25%, ST second, accounting for 17%, followed by the order of Omini Vision 15.6%, Sharp 12.2%, Sony5.9%. Sony who has been involved mainly in CCD market has a strong tendency to turn to CIS, which must be cosiderd carefully for the company wants to survive in the market. |
