Average selling prices for MCUs are expected to move moderately higher through 2026.  Tight supplies caused ASPs to jump 10% in 2021—the biggest increase in 25 years, says quarterly update.

Microcontroller sales boomeranged back with strong growth in the economic recovery of 2021, when the MCU market climbed 23% to a record-high $19.6 billion after falling 2% in the 2020 outbreak year of the Covid-19 virus crisis, according to IC Insights’ 1Q Update to its 2022 McClean Report.  IC Insights is forecasting worldwide microcontroller sales to increase 10% in 2022 to reach an all-time high of  $21.5 billion (Figure 1), with automotive MCU growth outpacing most other end-use categories this year.

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Market forecast of 12% growth in 2022 follows historic 30% jump in analog sales in 2021.

Another year of double-digit market growth is expected for analog integrated circuits in 2022 after sales in this semiconductor category surged by an unprecedented 30% in 2021, during the economic recovery from the global recession caused by the Covid-19 virus crisis in 2020, according to IC Insights’ 1Q Update to its 2022 McClean Report.

Total analog IC sales are forecast to rise 12% to $83.2 billion in 2022, with unit shipments increasing 11% to 238.7 billion (Figure 1).  The average selling price of analog ICs is projected to grow 1% in 2022.

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