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Section 12. ASIC Market Overview

The application-specific IC (ASIC) and system-on-chip (SOC) market is an important segment of the IC industry. This section offers extensive coverage of ASIC/SOC market and technology trends.

ASIC/SoC Technology Trends. Rising gate counts, interconnect layers, and I/O connections are plotted and discussed. Also discussed are new cost-effective ASIC approaches such as "structured" ASICs and IBM customizable control processor (CCP) devices.

ASIC/SoC Market Trends. Dollar, unit shipment, and average selling price information is provided for the total ASIC market, as well as for the standard cell, gate array, and PLD sub-segments. Also included is an analysis of ASIC pricing trends (i.e., price-per-transitor or per-gate trends).