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Sensor sales stay strong automotive systems, industrial equipment,
due to higher selling prices and other embedded-control applications
have signifi cantly increased the average
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Fueled by selling price (ASP) of these semiconduc-
the spread of “smart” embedded con- tors.
trols and higher selling prices due to
tight supplies in the market, semicon- Largest one-year price increase
ductor sensor sales are forecast to IC Insights expects the 2022 ASP for total
continue registering double-digit per- sensors will be 11% higher than in 2021,
centage growth in 2022 compared to representing the largest one-year price
last year, says IC Insights. percentage increase in more than two de-
cades.
Demand slowed
However, weakening economic conditions Sales in two major sensor categories are
and high infl ation rates around the world expected to fi nish this year with double-
have slowed sensor unit demand in con- digit percentage increases: +15% for
sumer electronics, personal computers, acceleration/yaw sensors; and +20% for
and mainstream smartphone segments magnetic-fi eld sensors (including electron-
since the start of summer. ic compass chips often found in navigation
applications).
Sensor unit shipments are forecast to
grow just 1% in 2022, but will nudge up Lower smartphone shipments
to a record-high 30.8 billion devices com- Meanwhile, sales of pressure sensing de-
pared to 30.4 billion in 2021. vices (including microphone chips) are
forecast to only grow 5% in 2022 due to
Total sensor sales in the fourth quarter constraints in automotive production and
were on an annual pace to grow 13% in a drop-off in smartphone shipments this
2022 to an all-time high of $14.4 billion year.
from $12.7 billion last year, according to
IC Insights’ 4Q22 Update forecast (See Pressure sensor sales are projected to
fi gure). increase to $4.8 billion this year with ship-
ments rising just 0.4% to 8.5 billion units.
Tight supplies and shortages of sensors for Revenues in the acceleration/yaw cate-
gory, which contain
accelerometers and
gyroscope designs
for inertial sens-
ing, are expected to
reach $5.5 billion in
2022 with unit ship-
ments rising a little
less than 0.5% to
7.1 billion this year.
Nearly three quar-
ters of annual semi-
conductor sensor
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