Statistics and Forecast of Automobile MCU Applications according to BIT, 2003-2012
 

As the most attractive sector of the electronic industry, automotive electronics is far superior to others no matter in prospect, stability or gross margin, and its core just lies in automotive MCU. However, MCU is an inborn high-threshold field, especially for the automotive MCU because it has to consider not only the temperature scope between-40¡æand 125¡æ, but also the quiver, humidity, height, dust, oil-dust. Therefore, automotive MCU requires special manufacturing process as well as long-term authentication.

Automotive electronics also has its unique industrial module: MCU manufactures are in the upstream, following are module manufacturers developing special ECU, then Tireone component suppliers. In recent years, Tireone component suppliers have been becoming increasingly powerful, while the module manufacturers have been gradually disappearing. Meanwhile, global top eight automobile groups shared 80% of the automobile market, and the division among European, American and Japanese vehicles is quite obvious.

Due to the persistent vertical integration of Japanese manufacturers and the tight supply chain which is extremely hard for non-Japanese manufacturers to enter, MCU manufacturers usually ally with car manufactures in development instead of component suppliers. By contrast, European and American manufacturers seldom have business with car manufacturers except Freescale with whom GM cooperate for engine development. 

Contrast of Six Major Automotive MCU Manufacturers

Automotive MCU vendors show more interest in fields including air bag (especially side air bag), automotive electronic brake control (ABS, ESC and ESP), internal instrument panel, automobile navigation, audio equipment and bus lines. This report presents detailed information for all the above sectors.

2. Global Automotive Semiconductor Industry 
2.1 Profile of Automotive Electronics 
2.2 Configuration Cases of Automotive Electronics 
2.3 Market Scale of Global Automotive Semiconductor 
2.4 Industry Pattern of Global Automotive Semiconductor 

3. Automotive MCU Industry and Market 
3.1 Profile of Global MCU Market 
3.2 Profile of Automotive MCU 
3.3 Automotive MCU Market
3.4 Automotive MCU Industry 

4. Automotive Air Bag Electronics
4.1 Automotive Air Bag Market 
4.2 Technology Trend of Automotive Air Bag 
4.3 Global Air Bag Industry 

5. ESP
5.1 History and Status Quo 
5.2 Profile 
5.3 Market Forecast
5.4 EPS Industry 

6. Automobile Navigation 
6.1 Market Scale 
6.2 Status Quo  
6.2 Major Manufacturers around the World
6.2.1 Siemens VDO
6.2.2 Aisin Seiki
6.2.3 BlAUPUNKT 
6.2.4 Pioneer
6.2.5 Clarion
6.2.6 Alpine
6.2.7 Denso
6.2.8 XANAVI
6.2.9 Fujitsu Ten Electronics 
6.2.10 Panasonic 

7. Electronic Brake System
7.1 Profile 
7.2 Market Share of Major Manufacturers

8. Other Automotive MCU Downstream Application Fields 
8.1 Car Interior
8.2 Car Audio 

9. Development Trend of Bus Line System
9.1 Profile 
9.2 CAN  
9.3 LIN
9.4 FLEXRAY
9.5 MOST

10. Automotive MCU Manufacturers 
10.1 NEC
10.2 Renesas
10.3 Fujitsu
10.4 Freescale 
10.5 Infineon
10.6 STMicroelectronics 
10.7 TI

11. Global Tierone Automotive Electronic Component Suppliers
11.1 Bosch 
11.2 Delphi 
11.3 Visteon
11.4 Siemens VDO
11.5 Denso 
11.6 Continental Automobile Group 
11.7 TRW Automobile Group