TAIPEI, Taiwan－With the traditional 3C applications went into mature phase, the global high-tech industry will be more actively involved in the development of new applications in 2015. MIC, a Taiwanese market analysis institute, observed the whole technology industry and put forward ten major trends of 2015:
1. Smart technology penetrates to all kinds of living application
2. Healthy care driven wearable market
3. IoT accelerate the home automation
4. ICT industry to develop smart platform
5. Retail 4.0
6. The rise of software-defined
7. Network computing needs will be stratified
8. Transistor architecture from flat to 3D
9. The continued increase in the average size of LCD TVs
10. China industry more competitive
MIC said ,the continued investment of China government in the local technology industry, will bring greater pressure on Taiwanese companies. In addition to the panel industry, Chinese semiconductor industry is also growing rapidly, competition from Chinawill continue to increase in 2015.
For the development of Taiwan Semiconductor, MIC said that Taiwan foundry process technology will enter the FinFET era in 2015, semiconductor structure is going to transform to three-dimensional from original one-dimensional design, the TSMC’s 16nm and Samsung’s 14nm will mass production next year.
As for the competition between TSMC and Samsung, MIC believes that Taiwan's TSMC is expected to get most orders for Apple A9 processor.
