Market Share of Automotive Semiconductor Industry
The market studied fluctuates due to growing consolidation, technological advancement, and geopolitical scenarios. With the rising vertical integration of IDMs and foundries, the intensity of competition in the market is expected to increase, considering their ability to invest, which results from their revenues.
In a market where the sustainable competitive advantage through innovation is considerably high, the competition is likely to increase, considering the anticipated surge in demand from various automotive firms.
In such a situation, brand identity plays a major role, considering the importance of quality that the automotive firms expect from a semiconductor manufacturing player. The market penetration levels are also high with the presence of large market incumbents, such as NXP Semiconductor NV, Infineon Technologies AG, MediaTek Renesas Electronics Corporation, and Texas Instrument Inc..
- February 2024: Infineon Technologies AG announced that Infineon and Honda Motor Co. Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build a strategic collaboration. Honda selected Infineon as a semiconductor partner to align future product and technology roadmaps. The two companies agreed to continue discussions on supply stability and encourage the transfer of mutual knowledge and collaboration on projects to accelerate the time-to-market technologies.
- November 2023: NXP Semiconductors NV announced the investment in and collaboration with Zendar Inc., a software start-up dedicated to revolutionizing autonomous vehicle systems with high-resolution radar. The investment accelerated and improved high-resolution radar solutions for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) to complement NXP’s leading scalable radar portfolio.
- November 2023: Renesas Electronics Corporation laid out plans for its next-generation microcontrollers (MCUs) and system-on-chips (SoCs), targeting all significant applications across the automotive digital domain. The company shared its plans for two forthcoming MCU product advancements in the next-generation R-Car family. One is a recent crossover MCU series that delivers the high performance required for domain and zone electronic control units (ECU) in next-generation E/E automobile architectures. Secondly, the group plans to introduce a separate MCU platform tailored to the vehicle control market.
Automotive Semiconductor Market Leaders
NXP Semiconductor NV
Infineon Technologies AG
Renesas Electronics Corporation
STMicroelectronics NV
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
*Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order
