Three major trends are shaping the MCU space
- Algorithms are increasing in complexity. For example, the desire to make motors more power efficient pushes up the CPU performance requirements.
- Consolidation of multiple subsystems into a single electronics board, to reduce system cost, footprint and power
- Platforms once closed are starting to include wired and/or wireless connectivity. This puts further pressures on processor performance requirements and provides additional challenges to the system designer to ensure high degrees of system security/reliability and embed enough latent performance to support future services that maybe delivered across the network to deployed platforms
The combination of these three factors will cause the 32-bit MCU market to grow at a rate that far outpaces the growth of other sub-segments of the MCU market and indeed the market overall.
