8 bit microcontroller market

I am trying to get a handle on the current (or at least fairly recent) 8 bit microcontroller market. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence around, usually to show a particular manufacturer in a favourable light but apart from spending several grand on a marketing report I have been unable to find a set of basic figures for recent years. There are broad figures up to

2000 in the FAQ but nothing more detailed or recent.

Any ideas where this can be found at little or no cost. I am thinking market share by value, shipments and processor type - that sort of thing.

Ian

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Ian Bell
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Hi Ian,

It may depend on the market segment / categories.

General Purpose Multi-Market will have a different slant than say ... the Automotive Market Segment, Toy Market, Alarm Keypad market etc.

Some of the manufacturers have application specific devices that win the high volume business because of their peripherals or core type.... can save a few ten's of cents.... over 100k + is significant.

Experienced designers - can swing from one MFG to another quite readily.

If looking at general purpose .... then MFG micro road maps foe development paths for future micro's in same series .... is always good sign.... so your investment in tools and knowledge... is re-usable. (R&D... = Design and Reuse or Research and Duplicate!).

Regards Joseph

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Joe G (Home)

Reschedule and Delay.

Luhan

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Luhan

Indeed, when I interviewed with a toymaker, they mentioned that they actually use a number of 4-bit micros

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cs_posting

This is a very vague research aim. Can you narrow the goal down: are you trying to establish which 8-bit vendor is most popular? If so, you need to restrict the search to a particular industry, or at least categorize your results by industry.

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zwsdotcom

Oh.... good one!

JG

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Joe G (Home)

where "a number" is "a large number".

Toys have migrated up to 8-bit cores but the 4-bit parts are still plentiful and cheap. Especially used in products with not much complex interactivity (press button, get sound kind of things).

The tools for these parts are "fun" :/

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zwsdotcom

What he wants is fiscal reports, not tech info........

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martin.shoebridge

It is vague at least in part because I have no idea just what data is available. Principally I am curious. For example, some say more PICs are made than anything else, others that more 8051 derivatives are made. There are endless debates on newsgroups and boards about the market shares of different processors - I would just like to get some hard numbers. So what are the top 10 8 bit micro types (by sales value or quantity). I expect the list would have 8051, PIC, AVR, HC05 vying for the top. What are the figures for the last 10 years. Ditto for 16 bitters and 32 bitters - it would be intersting to see just how much impact the ARM has made in the 32 bit market itself and at the expense of the 16 and 8 bit markets.

So it's vague because I am after general figures.

Ian

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Ian Bell

martin.shoebridge top-posted:

He wanted "market share by value". He needs to select a market.

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zwsdotcom

finance.yahoo.com, look up several manufacturers, and download their Annual Reports for free...?

Partial list of manufacturers (everyone, feel free to add):

Texas Instruments Atmel Microchip

etc., etc...

Michael

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mrdarrett

In message , dated Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Ian Bell writes

The big market research companies charge a lot of money for this information.

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John Woodgate

The figure I was given, when I asked about this, basically had the top two in your list reversed, if you are dealing in sales volume, but very close if you are dealing in value. Key thing to remember, is that the PIC, is used in a hell of a lot of RF smart tags, and in things like SIMM cards. One company I deal with moved over 2.5 million such tags last year alone, and these really up the PIC total.

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Roger Hamlett

I selected a market - 8 bit microcontrollers.

Ian

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Ian Bell

Excellent idea, thanks

ian

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Ian Bell

Who did you ask and where did they get their info?

ian

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Ian Bell

It was a figure published at an international microcontroller users conference in the US earlier this year. It was based on the work of a market research company, who had done what others have suggested, and pulled the published data from the companies, as well as from several of the larger distributors.

Best Wishes

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Roger Hamlett

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