EDA Industry - 2006

Posted by Ken Cheung in Research on Monday, May 21, 2007

The EDA Consortium's Market Statistics Service (MSS) recently released data about the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. Revenue for Q4 of 2006 was $1,493 million, which is a 19% increase over Q4 2005. For the full year 2006, revenue totaled a record $5,274 million, which was 15% more than the $4,575 million recorded in 2005. The increase reflects both the continuing growth of the industry as a whole and the growth of the MSS program, which enjoyed a net increase in the number of participating companies compared to the previous year.

Here is a quick summary of their data:

  • Total EDA and SIP (semiconductor intellectual property) Product and Maintenance revenue (excluding services) increased 20% over Q4 2005 and posted a record high quarter of $1,416 million revenue in Q4 2006.
  • Companies tracked in the MSS employed 25,390 professionals in Q4 2006, 10% more than Q4 2005.
  • EDA's largest tool category, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), generated revenue of $634 million in Q4 2006, 17% more than the same period in 2005. CAE revenue was at, $2,190 million for all of 2006, up 14% compared to 2005.
  • IC Physical Design & Verification increased 11% to $385 million in Q4 2006 over the same quarter in 2005. For the full year 2006, IC Physical Design & Verification revenue totaled $1,396 million, a 16% increase over 2005.
  • The EDA industry's SIP revenue totaled $274 million in Q4 2006, 31% greater than Q4 2005. For 2006, SIP revenue increased by 21% to $989 million versus $817 million in 2005.
  • Revenue for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and Multi-Chip Module (MCM) Layout totaled $123 million in Q4 2006, a 41% increase over $87 in Q4 2005. PCB and MCM Layout revenue totaled $391 million for all of 2006, up 14% compared to 2005.
  • EDA Services revenue was $77 million in Q4 2006, up 12% from Q4 2005. Services revenue totaled $308 million in 2006, up 9% compared to 2005.
  • North America, EDA's largest customer base with 53% global share, purchased $788 million of EDA and SIP products and services in Q4 2006, a 39% increase over Q4 2005. For all of 2006, North American revenue was $2,589, an increase of 22% compared to 2005.
  • In Q4 2006, Western Europe revenue increased by 6% from Q4 2005 to $287 million. For the full year 2006, revenue from Western Europe was $977 million, an increase of 12% over 2005. Western Europe had a 19% share of global revenue in 2006.
  • In Q4, revenue from Japan decreased 10% to $230 million. Japan revenue increased slightly by 3% to $1,051 million in 2006. EDA sales in Japan constituted 15% of the global total in 2006.
  • Rest-of-world (ROW) growth increased 19% in Q4 2006, to $188 million. Revenue from ROW grew at a rate second only to North America in 2006, increasing 19% for the year to $657 million. ROW is 13% of global 2006 revenue.

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