Worldwide merchant market dollar shipments of structured Asic
products are forecast to soar from the $210m reached last year to
$2.53bn by 2009.
That is according to market research firm In-Stat, which said
that communications will dominate the consumption of structured
Asic products. The majority of applications will be in the
networking infrastructure, telecoms and mobile basestation
segments.
More than four-fifths of all structured Asics will be sold in
the Americas markets, with Japan taking the majority of the
remainder.
In-Stat divides structured Asic into three categories: embedded
array (closest to a cell-based Asic); embedded FPGA in a cell-based
design; and reconfigurable CPU. The embedded array will dominate
dollar shipments, said In-Stat, but losing ground to the other
methods.
The second largest end market for structured Asic will be
industrial, which includes medical, factory automation and
instrumentation applications.
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