EDA market grows fastest outside Europe/N America

The electronic design automation industry's revenue for Q1 of 2004 was $995 million, a 6% increase over Q1 2003, according to the EDA Consortium's Market Statistics Service.

The electronic design automation industry's revenue for Q1 of 2004 was $995 million, a 6% increase over Q1 2003, according to the EDA Consortium's Market Statistics Service (MSS).

Services revenue surged to $76 million, a 31% increase over first quarter of last year.

In an expanded membership category, semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) at $78 million showed a 15% increase over the same quarter last year.

"The growth in services and SIP revenue is a good indicator of renewed design activity", said Walden C Rhines, Chairman of the EDA Consortium and Chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corp.

"This should point to further tools revenue down the road".

EDA licence and maintenance revenue was $840 million in Q1 2004, a 3% increase over Q1 2003, and 84% of the total reported revenue.

EDA's largest tool category, computer-aided engineering (CAE), generated revenue of $470 million in Q1 2004, 6% more than the same period in 2003.

Revenue for printed circuit board (PCB) and multichip module (MCM) layout totalled $85 million in Q1 2004, 5% more than in Q1 2003.

IC physical design and verification revenue at $285 million was down slightly from $288 million in the same period last year.

North America revenues increased by 5% at $461 million, Europe revenues of $181 million showed a 4% rise, and Japan at $236 million was down 2%.

Major growth occurred in the rest of the world, which showed total revenues of $116 million, up 36% from Q1 2003.

Reporting EDA companies employed 19,700 professionals in Q1 2004, 3% more than Q1 2003.

This was the highest employment figure ever recorded by the MSS since it began tracking employment data in Q1 2000.

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