IDC Prognosis: Worldwide Enterprise Storage Semiconductor Market to Pass the $1 Billion Mark in 2005

The enterprise storage semiconductor market will pass the $1 billion mark in 2005, an 18.5% jump from 2004 when the market will rise to $857 million. Steady growth in the longer term will allow this segment to reach $1.2 billion in 2008, representing an 11% CAGR for 2003-2008, reveals a new IDC study.

"The market for semiconductors within enterprise storage equipment continues to evolve as the demands for networked storage grows," said Sean Lavey, program manager for Semiconductor Research at IDC.

IDC's new study, Worldwide Enterprise Storage Semiconductor Market 2004-2008 Forecast and Analysis (IDC #31895 http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jhtml?containerId=31895 ), examines all application-specific semiconductor standard products (ASSPs), application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), programmable logic devices (PLDs) and processors shipping into direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS), and storage area networking (SAN) markets.

"New storage technologies such as serial ATA (SATA) and serial attached SCSI (SAS) coupled with the emerging IP-based iSCSI protocol will have a major impact on driving further adoption of networked storage into the SMB masses," added Sean.

This includes RAID adaptors and RAID-on-motherboard (ROM) controllers, FC HBAs, FC switching infrastructure, and external storage systems (a.k.a. disk arrays). A top-line forecast for the semiconductor components used within these storage system markets is provided, segmented by key application markets for 2003-2008.