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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 February 2006
Freescale and ST dominate automotive
MCUs
In the current Strategy Analytics vendor market share analysis, Freescale and ST Microelectronics together control 21% of the $16 billion automotive semiconductor market.
Freescale and ST Microelectronics together last week announced the establishment of an IP cross-licensing agreement intended to reinforce their respective positions as leading semiconductor suppliers to the automotive electronics industry Freescale's 32bit PowerPC microcontroller core and ST's high voltage PowerMOS and IGBT technology IP will be shared, their 90nm embedded Flash process technologies aligned, and a microcontroller joint design team created
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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In the current Strategy Analytics Vendor Market Share analysis, the two companies are shown to jointly control 21% of the $16 billion automotive semiconductor market.
This Strategy Analytics analysis demonstrates that, based on 2004 sales, Freescale at $1.8 billion, and ST at 1.3 billion, hold the number one and number three positions in the automotive semiconductor market, sandwiching competitor Infineon, which sold $1.4 billion (9%).
"With severe price pressure coming down the supply chain from the automotive OEMs, Freescale and ST are expecting the alliance to help control rising new product development costs and help entrench their positions in the market against such rivals as Infineon and Renesas", said Chris Webber, VP Automotive Practice at Strategy Analytics.
"More importantly, Freescale's PowerPC faces tough competition in the expanding automotive 32bit processor market".
"This joint microcontroller design and licensing alliance with ST is intended to help secure the future market position for the PowerPC architecture".
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