After achieving 17.4 percent revenue growth in 2004, the worldwide analog Integrated Circuit (IC) market is decelerating in 2005 due to a slowdown in the mobile-phone market.
Following a flat first half for the analog IC market, analog revenue growth is expected to amount to 5.8 percent for all of 2005, iSuppli Corp. predicts. Global analog IC sales will rise to $39.8 billion in 2005, up from $37.6 billion in 2004. The longer-term outlook for analog ICs appears somewhat brighter, with revenue growing to $59 billion in 2009, rising at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.5 percent from $37.6 billion in 2004, according to iSuppli.
