Chinese MEMS Sensor Market Prediction

Given to the influence from global weak economy, global MEMS sensor market slows growth rate, expecting to remain the compound annual growth rate of 8% in the next few years from 2012 to 2014; while Chinese MEMS sensor market set to continue to maintain double-digit growth; by 2014, the sales of Chinese MEMS sensor market forecasts reaching $24.66 billion. In the next three years, MEMS sensor will further maintain stable growth in such products as China 3C products, automotive electronics and medical electronics; in particularly, driven by the rapid growth of 3C products with representative of mobile phone and Tablet PC, Chinese MEMS sensor is projected to further expand market size, according to Ge Ji, researcher in electronics institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On the side of products structure, he believes the acceleration sensor will occupy the premier position. “The acceleration sensor constantly enhances its penetration in the 3C products, and becomes the standard of Tablet PC; in the next three years, the market shares set to dominate the industry. At the same time, with the more maturity of technology, the whole machine penetration of micromechanical gyroscope further rise, as well as the corresponding machine products continue to expand, plus the relatively small market base, the market size also will show high increase momentum. As printer output stabilizes, inkjet print head will continue weak growth for such market segments in the next three years.

As for the application structure, Ge Ji pointed out computers set to become the most positive field. For the next three years, Chinese automotive electronics industry slows down growth, so does the corresponding MEMS sensor market in the automotive electronics area. But due to the large MEMS market size of automotive electronics area, so by 2014, the MEMS sensor market size of this field will amount to $7.72 billion, still the largest application area in Chinese MEMS sensor market.
China network communications and computer in the future are to be the fastest growing areas of MEMS sensor market where computers will become the most positive field, driven by the surging growth of Tablet PC.

Consumer electronics are difficult to raise its product market growth rate, because of the difficult breaking through of the increase rate limitation of such whole products as digital camera, camcorders and multimedia player.