The market for intelligent systems--those enabled with high-performance microprocessors, connectivity, and high level operating systems--will grow from 19% of all major electronic system unit shipments in 2010 to more than one third of all systems by 2015, according to the latest report on the emerging intelligent systems market.

According to the report, the market for intelligent systems is developing rapidly, with over 1.8 billion units and more than $1 trillion in revenue today. By, 2015, the market will double to nearly 4 billion units and more than $2 trillion in revenue. Overall, embedded systems will consume nearly 14.5 billion microprocessor cores in 2015. Equally notable is that the segment of intelligent systems based on shipments from the traditional embedded system markets already exceeds the segment based on shipments from combined PCs, servers, and mobile phones.

These results indicate that the evolution of embedded systems from fixed function and disconnected systems to intelligent systems continues to gain momentum and puts intelligent systems on track to bring the "Internet of Things" to reality. Further, the report indicates that momentum will accelerate beyond 2015 as the ecosystem of hardware, software, and services vendors bring more intelligence into systems through higher levels of performance and programmability, more forms of connectivity, increasing penetration of sensors, and a growing base of cloud-based applications and data.

Companies Covered:
Apple Inc., Applied Microsystems Corp, ARM Limited, BHC Montevista Hospital, Inc., Broadcom Europe Limited, Cavium Networks, Inc., Core Logic Inc., Embedded Software group, Enea Aktiebolag, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., FUJITSU Limited, Google Inc., Greenhills PLC, IBM, Imagination Technologies Group PLC, Infineon Technologies AG, Intel Corporation, LSI Corporation, Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., MCU Pty Ltd, MediaTek Inc., Microchip Technology Inc, Microsoft Corporation, MIPS Technologies International AG, MStar Semiconductor, Inc., Netlogic Limited, NXP Semiconductors Magyarorszag Kereskedelmi Kft., Oracle Corporation, PMC-Sierra, Inc., QNX Software Systems Ltd, Qualcomm Incorporated, Renesas Electronics Corporation, Samsung C&T, Sigma Designs, Inc., Sony, STMicroelectronics N.V., Tensilica Inc, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Tilera Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Wind River Energy Corp., Worldwide Semiconductor Corp

Categories Covered:
Business Areas, Services Provisioning, Supply Chain Management, Consumer, Consumer Devices, PCs, Hardware, Consumer Devices, Contract Manufacturing, Life Sciences | Healthcare - Hardware, PCs, Semiconductors, Wireless and Mobile Devices, Insights: Energy, Energy, Insights: Manufacturing, Industry Focus, Vertical Markets, Manufacturing

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. In This Study

Methodology

2. Situation Overview

Industry Dynamics

3. Future Outlook

Forecast and Assumptions

Table: Worldwide Traditional Embedded Systems and Intelligent Systems Shipments by Major Industry, 2010–2015 (M)

Table: Worldwide Traditional Embedded Systems and Intelligent Systems Revenue by Major Industry, 2010–2015 ($M)

Intelligent Systems

Figure: Worldwide Intelligent Systems Shipments by Embedded and Other Mainstream Systems, 2010–2015

Embedded Software, Tools, IP, and Platforms

Embedded Semiconductor Suppliers and Architectures

Intel and ARM Ecosystem

Embedded Semiconductor 2010 Market Size and Market Share: MCUs, MPUs, and SoCs

Figure: Worldwide Embedded and Intelligent System Semiconductor Revenue Share, 2010

Embedded Systems Semiconductor Forecast

Figure: Worldwide Embedded Systems Semiconductor Revenue by Segment, 2010–2015

Era of Many Cores

Table: Worldwide Total Systems Microprocessors Consumed and Microprocessor Cores Consumed by Major Industry, 2010–2015 (M)

Table: Worldwide Total Systems Microprocessor Cores Consumed by Architecture, 2010–2015 (M)

Industry Impact

Figure: Worldwide Intelligent Systems as Share of Total Systems by Major Industry, 2005–2015

Figure: Worldwide Traditional Embedded Systems and Other Mainstream System Shipments, 2005–2015

Figure: Worldwide Fastest-Growing Intelligent Systems Based on Unit Shipments, 2011–2015

Assumptions

Table: Top 3 Assumptions for the Worldwide Intelligent Systems Market, 2011–2015

Table: Key Forecast Assumptions for the Worldwide Intelligent Systems Market, 2011–2015

4. Essential Guidance
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Related Research

Definitions

Table: IDC's Worldwide Embedded Microprocessor Market Model Device Segmentation

Synopsis