SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Notebook PC unit sales are forecast to increase at a cumulative average growth rate of 18% per year this decade (2000-2010) compared to a CAGR of 4% for desktop PCs, reports IC Insights.
 
PCs have accounted for a third or more of the world's IC revenues since the early 1990s. Through the end of this decade, the status of PC systems will not change, despite periods of slow annual growth rates for units shipped and worldwide revenues from products. Stronger growth rates, however, are materializing worldwide in the notebook segment, says the research firm.
 
Of a PC system's total cost, an estimated 30% is represented by IC components in 2007. This percentage is expected to rise steadily through by 2011, partly because PC system prices will fall slightly faster than IC ASPs. IC content in PCs will also be driven higher by the growth of embedded cameras in computers, which will contain CMOS image sensors, analog-to-digital converters, and image signal processors, along with the advent of solid-state disks and hard-disk cache systems built with NAND flash memory ICs, says IC Insights.
 
Of the $220.3 billion IC market in 2007, 33% is estimated for PC-related devices. While several other existing and new IC system applications are showing stronger growth rates, the huge PC segment is expected to account for no less than 32% of the integrated circuit market through 2011.

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