EDA Industry Revenues Flat
Published: 03 July 2008
by Staff
SAN JOSE, CA--The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) announced the EDA industry revenue for Q1 2008 were basically flat, declining slightly by 1.2% compared to Q1 2007.
Q1 2008 revenues were $1350.7 million compared to $1366.8 million in Q1 2007. The four quarter moving average (Q2, Q3, Q4 2007 and Q1 2008) compared to the same quarters in the previous year showed 5.9% growth.
“Weakness in the large EDA companies was partly offset by strength in startups, with resulting numbers that were slightly down year over year,” said Walden C. Rhines, EDAC chair and Mentor Graphics CEO and chairman. “Main areas of strength were in leading-edge technologies such as electronic system level design, design for manufacturing, design for test, IC layout verification, IC/ASIC power analysis, and RF/ mixed-signal design.”
Employment was up 5.8%, to 27,329 professionals in Q1 2008 from 25,820 in Q1 2007.
Printed Circuit Board and Multi-Chip Module (PCB & MCM) revenue decreased 1.4% to $131.1 million. The four quarter moving average growth rate was down 4.7%.
Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), was up 2.7 to $535.4 million. The four quarter moving average CAE growth rate was 10.6%.
IC Physical Design & Verification revenue decreased to $325 million in Q1 2008, down 9.1% compared to Q1 2007. The four quarter moving average growth rate was up 6.7%.
Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) revenue was $271.4 million, a slight 1.7% increase over Q1 2007. The four quarter moving average growth rate for SIP was also up slight at 1.2%.
Services revenue was $87.8 million in Q1 2008, down 0.8% from Q1 2007.
North America remains the largest region with sales of $565.1 million. Sales were down 8.2% compared to Q1 2007. The four quarter moving average growth rate was down slightly by 0.8%.
Western Europe revenue was up 13.5% to $268.7 million. The four quarter moving average growth for Western Europe was 11.2%.
Q1 2008 revenue from Japan increased 2.4% to $327.1 million and four quarter moving average increase was 7.9% for Japan.
In the Rest-of-World, including Asia and India, sales decreased 2.5% to $189.8 million. The four quarter moving average growth was still up 19.9%.
