World DC-DC Converter Market to Aggressively Pursue Technology Development Strategy20 December 2004
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (www.powersupplies.frost.com), World DC-DC Converter Market, reveals that this market generated revenue of $3.74 billion in 2004 and projects to reach $5.69 billion in 2010.
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However, the maturity of certain market segments such as telecommunications and the industrial sectors tends to restrict growth. Vendors can overcome the challenge of market saturation by consistently innovating and developing state-of-the-art equipment.
The recent shift from traditional distributed power architecture (DPA) to IBA has greatly helped converter vendors to capitalize on the economic resurgence. Besides technological innovations in related fields, there has been increased focus on the need to upgrade converters' designs. This has led to the introduction of a multitude of features by numerous vendors, creating an issue of product compatibility.
"Besides disturbing end users' multiple sourcing models, this product glut is expected to slow down the penetration of the new technology, as all existing vendors are expected to take time in developing standards and compatible products," explains Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst G. V. Suryanarayana Raju.
To overcome this restraint, vendors have made a move to formalize the distributed-power open standards alliance (DOSA) and point-of-load alliance (POLA) to standardize the products. The growing use of digital controls and rising levels of consumer awareness are also compelling vendors to keep pace with product development to match end-user system upgrades.
However, the sudden influx of technically enhanced products has increased competition in the markets, which already had to contend with the growing threat posed by semiconductor manufacturers. This competitive pressure coupled with the commodity nature of the DC-DC converters has resulted in a price sensitive and fragmented market.
"Though technical enhancements such as the IBA design have gained strong support in the industry due to lower cost and better control, vendors are still apprehensive of the ability for these new designs to counter competition from the semiconductor manufacturers," says Raju. "The use of point of loads (POLs) in the IBA systems brings the issues of commoditization of the products to the fore as these products are cheap and easy to construct, leading to price erosion."
Besides technical innovations such as the power over Ethernet (PoE), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), and other wireless technologies, market expansion can help vendors overcome this problem by developing new markets in regions such as Asia, thereby creating additional demand.
Frost & Sullivan's recent study, World DC-DC Converter Market, is a part of the Battery subscription. This research studies the major segments of this analysis based on the power ranges -- low, medium, and high-range DC-DC converters. It provides in-depth analysis based on geographical sectors. The study also offers a comprehensive view of the end-user and application sectors such as communication, industrial, aerospace and defense, and medical. Further, data on technological trends and market drivers and restraints provide valuable insights for participants. Interviews and executive summaries are available to the press.
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Source: Business Wire
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