The Merchant Embedded Computing Market - 2012 Edition report analyzes
the performance of the industry from 2003 - 2016. Although there are several
hundred companies, most are fairly small in revenue and highly specialized,
focusing on specific application segments with unique product requirements.
The report tracks and analyzes five application markets, nine bus
architectures and four form factors. Specific trends and issues of the
forecast by application, bus architecture and form function are covered in
detail in the report.
Whereas the overall MEC market is slowly recovering from the trauma of 2009's
economic meltdown, the performance of various market segments, bus
architectures, and companies are recovering at different rates. Total revenue
was just under $5 billion in 2010, a 4 percent increase from 2009 revenue
which had a 12-14 percent decrease over 2008. With the worldwide economy
stabilizing, the MEC industry recovered at about 6 percent in 2011 to ~$5.3
billion.
The MEC report targets five specific application markets: Communications,
Industrial, Medical, Military/Aerospace and an Other category that includes
transportation, security, surveillance, point-of-sale/kiosk applications, etc.
The Communication wireless segment is being driven by the exploding smart
phone and tablet traffic and the four billion devices connected to the
internet.
3G/4G services are where the money is for carriers going forward and the
wireline and optical networks are gearing up for upgrades to support the ever
increasing traffic. The Industrial market particularly suffered from the
financial crisis but investment in capital equipment infrastructure as well as
test & measurement has returned. The automotive sector has seen renewed growth.
The Medical segment was hit hard by the healthcare cutbacks which made
purchasing MEC-based, large equipment much more difficult. The usually healthy
Military/Aerospace segment is now facing a rapidly declining defense
department budget in the USA.
Counter to this, the military is trying to use more and more electronics for
the Internet enabled soldier and robotic weapons.
Each architecture has a different rate of adoption depending on the needs of
individual application segments. Overall key trends are “Power is up and
down; Green is the new color; and small is big.”
New 28- and 32-nm silicon for microprocessors, graphics, DSPs and high
integration I/O chips pack a lot of processing power while greatly reducing
power consumption. These incredibly powerful devices are changing the
landscape of the embedded board market. High integration silicon and serial
buses enable more small form factors (SFF) than in the past and are making
many older, parallel bus structures, such as PCI, look like the bus
architecture equivalent of a “clunker.” Bus structures continue to
proliferate around the major and long established busses but the number of
variances is past 100.
The MEC industry can be segmented into four form functions defined as:
single-board computers (SBC), digital signal processor (DSP) boards, I/O
boards and an ‘All Other' category that incorporates a huge number of
diverse and specific functions. In some applications I/O boards are
proliferating and are customized to the wide spectrum of I/O functions that
different applications use. In other applications, single-board computers are
becoming the trend as they incorporate more and more functionality with
advanced silicon and draw in DSP, graphics and many advanced I/O functions.
Report Highlights
Technical Trends
PCI Slot
AdvancedTCA
AdvancedMC
COM
VMEbus
PC/104
CompactPCI
CompactTCA
MicroTCA
SFF
PMC
Intel & VIA Motherboards
Industry Structure
Total Available Market
Competitive Strategies
Corporate Relations
Industry Analysis and Forecast, 2003-2016
Market Applications
Architectures
Board Functions
Design Technologies
Company Profiles
About New Venture Research
NVR is a provider of worldwide business market intelligence, growth management
and advisory services to companies in electronics high-technology markets with
special focus on semiconductors, component packaging and electronics assembly.
NVR has been covering the merchant embedded computing market since 1993 from a
technology, manufacturing, and market growth opportunity perspective and
improves its database and coverage with each year.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Executive Summary
Chapter 3: Technical Trends
VMEbus (PMC, 2eSST, PCI-X, etc.)
PCI, Compact PCI
Advanced TCA, Compact TCA, MicroTCA
Advanced MC, PC/104
Intel and VIA Motherboards
(ATX, MicroATX, FlexATX, BTX, Mini-ITX,
Nano-ITX, Pico-ITX)
COM (ETX, COM Express, XTX, Rugged
COM, Qseven, Other COM)
Chapter 4: Industry Structure
Global Economic Factors
Total Available Market
Communications
Industrial
Medical
Military/Aerospace
Other
Competitive Strategies
Corporate Relations
Standards
MPUs, DSPs, GPUs and FPGAs
Proliferation
Chapter 5: Industry Analysis and History 2003-2011
Chapter 6: Industry Analysis and Forecast 2011-2016
Chapter 7: Revenue by Bus Architecture, Function and Technology
PC/104 and Motherboard Forecast by Application Market
PC/104 and Motherboard Forecast by Board Function
COM Forecast by Specification
COM Forecast by Application Market
COM Forecast by Board Function
SBC Forecast by Specification
SBC Forecast by Application Market
SBC Forecast by Bus Architecture
DSP Forecast by Specification
DSP Forecast by Application Market
DSP Forecast by Bus Architecture
I/O Forecast by Application Market
I/O Forecast by Bus Architecture
I/O Forecast by Board Function
Summary Forecast for Application Market, Bus
Architecture and Board Function
The Merchant Embedded Computing Market - 2012 Edition published by New Venture Research in May 21, 2012. This report price starts from US $ 3495.
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Recovering Merchant Embedded Computing Market Aided by Wireless Communication Segment
May 22nd, 2012
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The overall merchant embedded computing (MEC) market is slowly recovering from the trauma of 2009s economic meltdown, the performance of various market segments, bus architectures, and companies are recovering at different rates. Total revenue was just under $5 billion in 2010, a 4 percent increase from 2009 revenue which had a 12-14 percent decrease over 2008. With the worldwide economy stabilizing, the MEC industry recovered at about 6 percent in 2011 to ~$5.3 billion.
The communication wireless segment is being driven by the exploding smart phone and tablet traffic and the four billion devices connected to the internet. 3G/4G services are where the money is for carriers going forward and the wireline and optical networks are gearing up for upgrades to support the ever increasing traffic. The Industrial market particularly suffered from the financial crisis but investment in capital equipment infrastructure as well as test & measurement has returned. The automotive sector has seen renewed growth.
The Medical segment was hit hard by the healthcare cutbacks which made purchasing MEC-based, large equipment much more difficult. The usually healthy Military/Aerospace segment is now facing a rapidly declining defense department budget in the USA. Counter to this, the military is trying to use more and more electronics for the Internet enabled soldier and robotic weapons.
The Merchant Embedded Computing Market - 2012 Edition report analyzes the performance of the industry from 2003 - 2016. Although there are several hundred companies, most are fairly small in revenue and highly specialized, focusing on specific application segments with unique product requirements. The report tracks and analyzes five application markets, nine bus architectures and four form factors. Specific trends and issues of the forecast by application, bus architecture and form function are covered in detail in the report
