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The O-S-D Report offers a substantial amount of information on many facets of the optoelectronic, sensor/actuator, and discrete industries. With over 260 pages and just under 200 tables, graphs, and illustrations, the O-S-D Report provides a thorough look at market and technology trends related to O-S-D devices.

Included are an overview of the global semiconductor market outlook and cycles; extensive tables of market, unit, and pricing data through the year 2012; end-use application and regional market analysis; leading supplier rankings; device history and technology trends; diagrams and illustrations of devices and packages; and more!

Optoelectronics

• CCD and CMOS Image Sensors
• Laser Transmitters and Pick-Ups
• Solid-State Lamps and LEDs
• Infrared Devices
• Couplers
• Digital Character Displays
• Other Opto Devices

For nearly 25 years, solid-state optoelectronic devices have lived in the shadows of discrete semiconductor products. Historically, optoelectronics was considered a small but fast-growing branch of the “greater” discrete marketplace, but that is no longer the case.

Consistently higher growth rates in optoelectronics have enabled the opto-semiconductor segment to virtually catch up with discretes since the last industry downturn in 2001. This is an amazing milestone, considering that optoelectronics sales were only one-fourth to one-half the dollar volume of discrete semiconductors in the 1980s and 1990s.

By 2012, optoelectronics sales are now expected to exceed discrete revenues by nearly 36%. Phenominal growth in optoelectronics is being diven by several product categories within the optical semiconductor segment, including image sensors, solid-state lamp devices, and laser transmitters.

Sensors/Actuators (including MEMS-based)

• Temperature Sensors
• Pressure Sensors
• Acceleration and Yaw Sensors
• Magnetic-Field Sensors
• Actuators

Solid-state sensors have been around for decades, often performing real-time measurements in embedded-control applications. But, it was not until 2001 that sensors were fully recognized as a fast-growing product segment within the semiconductor industry. Prior to 2001, sensors were mostly seen as an adjunct to the larger discrete semiconductor segment.

Since then, separately tracked sensor products have recorded a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) more than 1.5 times the CAGR of IC revenues and over 3 times the annual growth rate of discretes. MEMS-based products account for 80% of the revenues in the sensor/actuator segment.

Discretes

• Power Transistors and Modules
• Small-Signal Transistors
• Switching Transistors
• Diodes, Rectifiers, and Thyristors
• RF/Microwave Transistors and Modules

A half-century ago, transistors began as small-signal devices, aimed primarily at replacing bulky vacuum tubes in switching and amplification applications. Ten years later, transistors developed into integrated circuits, which then began to eliminate the need for many small-signal discrete devices.

However, with over 386 billion discretes forecast to ship in 2008, the advent of ICs certainly has not stopped the growth of transistor products and other commodity solid-state discretes. In fact, discretes are seeing increased use in portable electronics applications such as laptop PCs, PDAs, and cell phones, which need more power transistors and other discretes in power management, switching power supplies, and battery-charging systems.