Crystal oscillator shipments increased by 25% to 15 billion in 2010

In 2010, the world’s top 21 crystal manufacturers’ revenue rankings required the use of crystal oscillators for all digital circuits, and the crystal’s annual shipments were staggering. Shuiqing Muhua Research Center pointed out that in 2009, shipments of crystal oscillators were about 12 billion units, and in 2010 they grew 25% to 15 billion units. However, the price competition of Jingzhen has not stopped. As a result, the sales of crystal oscillator have not increased too much. In 2010, the crystal oscillator market scale was 3.898 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 14.3% compared with 2009. This is the highest growth rate in the crystal industry in the past ten years. .

Although CMOS crystals and MEMS oscillators have been studied for many years, although they have many advantages, the mainstream crystal oscillators are quartz (QUARTZ) crystals that have not changed for decades. The cumulative shipment volume of CMOS crystals and MEMS crystal oscillators is less than 100 million, which is less than one percent of quartz crystal oscillators.

Japan is the overlord of the crystal oscillator industry. Japan's crystal industry accounts for 67% of the global crystal industry's output value, which has been maintained for more than 10 years. Both the appreciation of the yen and the earthquake in Japan cannot shake the position and output value of Japanese companies in the crystal industry.

In the ranking of global crystal oscillators in 2010, the top four are Japanese companies. Taiwan and U.S. manufacturers also occupy an important position in the crystal industry. In the top 21 revenue rankings in 2010, seven were Taiwanese and four were U.S. manufacturers.

In terms of revenue comparison between 2010 and 2009, Epson Toyocom, Rakon, TXC, HELE, SIWARD, TAISAW and other vendors have grown rapidly, while TEW and Pericom have experienced a decline. In general, most Japanese crystal companies grew steadily, most Taiwanese crystal companies grew faster, and most American crystal companies grew slower or declined.