After the market fell in 2015, the market showed signs of recovery in 2016

In 2016, the global market for silicon power MOSFETs exceeded that of 2014, relying on growth in sales in the automotive and industrial markets. Power MOSFETs play a vital role in power conversion products, and we expect future markets to grow steadily as demand for products continues to grow. At present, the market size of the entire power MOSFET is 6.2 billion US dollars. It is expected that the market will maintain a growth rate of 3.4% per year until 2022.

In 2016, sales of electric vehicles reached 25 million units. For this reason, sales of power MOSFETs in the automotive applications market accounted for 20% of the total, exceeding the performance in computer and data storage applications. Given the increase in the number of cars worldwide and the consumer's adaptation to the way electric vehicles are used, sales of power MOSFETs in the automotive applications market are expected to grow at a rate of 5.1% over the next five years.

Power MOSFETs, as switching transistors, are widely used in a variety of automotive electronics, including braking systems, engine management, power steering, and other small control circuits due to their low on-resistance and high-speed switching advantages. In the inverter circuit part of electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles, more and more silicon MOSFETs are used (in the motor and inverter circuit part with the highest value and profit), due to the demand of large current, the application of IGBT is much larger than that of MOSFET. ). MOSFETs handle this 3-6 kW power perfectly in small embedded power/battery management for electric and hybrid vehicles. They are also widely used in automotive 48V DC/DC converters and other start-stop inverter circuits. With the growth of electric vehicles led by Tesla, we believe that the market share of MOSFETs in this segment will gradually expand in the next 5 to 10 years. In addition to automotive, the main application areas of power MOSFETs are wireless mobile, audio images, home appliances, medical, computing and storage, industrial networks and communications, which can form switching power supply DC/DC converters, AC adapters, vehicle charging devices, LED drivers. , screen backlight inverter. Major manufacturers include Infineon, On Semiconductors, Renesas, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba, Vishay, AOS (Alpha & Omega Semiconductor), Nexperia, IXYS, Rohm.