Semiconductor (Silicon) Intellectual Property (IP) Market (2012–2017) Global Forecasts & Analysis By Form Factor, Design Architecture, Processor Type, Applications and Geography

The Semiconductor Intellectual Property market is expanding robustly in size and prominence at a growth rate which is two times faster than the overall semiconductor market. As process technologies shrink further in the sub-nanometer level, the gap between accessible silicon and designers’ ability to utilize that space keeps widening. IP is vital in ameliorating design productivity at advanced design processes. With relatively slower growth in the overall semiconductor market, expense management has gained focus, which is driving the growth of third-party IP vendors. Semiconductor Players are actively outsourcing the IP design and development activities not core to their product differentiation. Today’s System-on-Chips and advanced ICs integrate a great variety of advanced functionality into a single device to offer superior performance, with ever more IP cores on a single chip. The rapidly growing consumer applications demand extensively integrated functionality and competitive features, such as optimization between performance and power consumption, all at an aggressive price point. As new players are increasingly implementing a fab-lite or fabless strategy, the fabs and manufacturing processes are consolidating. By rendering access to silicon-proven, high-quality IP during the fabrication processes, key players are able to increasingly outsource IP. The growing trend of third-party IP Vendors and increasing licensing of advanced IP blocks by several key players are bound to change the landscape of the global semiconductor IP market.

The report on the global Semiconductor (Silicon) Intellectual Property (IP) market analyzes the Semiconductor IP industry’s value chain, giving a bird’s eye-view of all the major industry segments and allied industry segments to the Semiconductor IP industry. It discusses the markets of various allied industry segments such as EDA vendors, foundry players, fabless players, fab players and IDMs. The global Semiconductor Intellectual property market is classified by various types of segmentations (given below) and discussed in detail with market estimates and forecasts for each of the sub-segments. The report also discusses and analyzes the market dynamics of the Semiconductor IP market, namely its market drivers, restraints and opportunities along with the industry’s burning issues and winning imperatives.
We have also profiled the leading players of this industry with their recent developments and other strategic industry activities. The report includes a complete competitive landscape, along with key growth strategies, company revenues in the Semiconductor IP market, market shares, rankings and complete market share analysis of the key industry players. Some of the key players profiled in this report are ARM Holdings Plc, Atmel Corporation, Cast Inc., CEVA Inc., Coreworks S.A, Dolphin Integration Inc., Imagination Technologies Inc., Lattice Semiconductor, Mentors Graphics Inc., MIPS Inc., MoSys Inc., NXP Semiconductors, Rambus Inc., Silicon Image Inc., Synopsys Inc., Tensilica Inc., Triad Semiconductor, VeriSilicon Inc. and Wipro-NewLogic Inc. This report covers only the Silicon IP sector of the global Semiconductor IP market. Verification IP and Software IP sectors are not included in this report.