And there’s a good reason why: Europe is probably the leading market for such systems. While the automotive sector is the major consumer, Europe has a ‘long tail’ of companies which not only consume, but also create, embedded systems technology.
Because of this, there is steady demand for components and subsystems. Recent figures from DMASS, an association of companies distributing semiconductors to industrial consumers, illustrate this. Once exchange rate factors are removed, DMASS said demand for semiconductors from industrial customers grew by at least 6% in 2015. And, according to DMASS, growth in demand came mostly from what it calls ‘design products’ – complex logic, analogue and high end microcontrollers.
And the products being designed by companies in Europe’s ‘long tail’ will be found in the IoT, Industry 4.0 and the Smart Factory. All of this means Europe remains a hotbed of innovation and design – especially when it comes to the industrial market
