New Report Analyses the Growing Market for Micro Control Units and their Applications

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90255) has announced the
addition of Micro Control Unit (MCU) Market Report, 2007 to their
offering.

This report provides a detailed study of the MCU market in 2007,
covering following detailed information.

1. MCU structure, MCU function and MCU applications &
classification

2. Providing related information on MCU downstream application
markets, covering small household appliances market like microwave
ovens and electric rice cookers, large household appliances market
like refrigerators, air conditioners and washing machines, daily-use
meters market like water meter, watt-hour meter and gas meter, remote
control market, auto market, USB devices market, smart cards market
and entertainment electronics market.

3. Introduction of some MCU manufacturers' operations, products
and technology

Microcontroller (MCU or uC for short), also called "Single Chip
Microcontroller", refers to a single chip that integrates ROM, RAM,
CPU and I/O, and achieve various combined control in different
applications. MCU has made great progress during the past several
years with products ranging from 4-bit MCU to 8-bit MCU, 16-bit MCU,
32-bit MCU and even 64-bit MCU. It is really unprecedented in aspects
of product maturity, number of MCU manufacturers and applications
scope. Presently, overseas big MCU producers take the leading position
in technology due to earlier development and more variety of products,
while local manufacturers mainly seize market share by products with
multifunction. Needless to say, the price war among local
manufacturers is a key challenge to overseas manufacturers.

The market demand for microwave ovens worldwide is about 55-60
million units. In China, the total production capacity of Galanz, LG
and Midea has already reached nearly 50 million units, while the
domestic market capacity of microwave ovens in 2006 and 2007 was only
7-8 million units. Therefore, China's microwave oven industry was an
export-oriented industry at the beginning. In 2006, the export of
China's microwave ovens reached 46.4 million units, amounting to over
85% of the total production. At present, China ranks the first in the
world in terms of both production and export of microwave oven.
Presently, a microwave oven normally has one MCU, which means the
market demand for MCU in China's microwave oven market reaches 50
million units.

In 2007, global output of home air conditioners amounted to 89.77
million units. As a global air conditioner manufacturing center,
China's output of air conditioners accounted for 70% of the world's
total in the year. At present, an air conditioner usually adopts one
to two MCU, so the sales of MCU in China's air conditioner market are
approximately 85 million units.

Global production of home air conditioners is mainly concentrated
in Asia, where its output accounts for 94% of the global total.
Nevertheless, 95% of Asian production is mainly concentrated in China,
Thailand, South Korea and Japan. Additionally, the emerging air
conditioner markets in Vietnam and India are growing year by year.

Companies Mentioned:

-Renesas

-Microchip

-ATMEL

-Toshiba

-ST

-HOLTEK

-Sunplus

-ZILOG

-SONIX

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