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CAD/CAM/CAE : electronic design automation, 1992 - Archive Server

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Market Analysis<br />

Analysis of Dataquest's final 1991 market share<br />

information shows that the entire worldwide<br />

<strong>CAD</strong>/<strong>CAM</strong>/<strong>CAE</strong>/GIS market grew at a 3.0 percent<br />

rate in 1991, to $14.8 billion. The software<br />

market portion grew by more than 7 percent,<br />

to $4.5 billion. Causes of the downward revision<br />

are examined in the following section.<br />

Figure 2 depicts the market size and market<br />

growth rate of segments in the <strong>CAD</strong>/<strong>CAM</strong>/<br />

<strong>CAE</strong>/GIS software industry. In Figure 2, the<br />

size of the bubble reflects the size of the market,<br />

and the bubbles are centered over both<br />

their market size, and their market growth rate<br />

last year. For example, mechanical applications,<br />

valued at slightly more than $2.0 billion, grew<br />

close to the industry average, at 7 percent;<br />

while the considerably smaller GIS market<br />

grew at a brisk 16.8 percent rate. Each shade<br />

Figure 2<br />

<strong>CAD</strong>/<strong>CAM</strong>/<strong>CAE</strong>/GIS Market PortfoUo<br />

Percent Change<br />

20 H<br />

-5-<br />

•10-<br />

Source: Dataquest (September <strong>1992</strong>)<br />

<strong>CAD</strong>/<strong>CAM</strong>/<strong>CAE</strong>—Electronic Design Automation Applications<br />

f-22<br />

$500M $1B $1.5B $2B $2.58<br />

1991 <strong>CAD</strong>/<strong>CAM</strong>/<strong>CAE</strong> Software Revenue<br />

in the figure represents a different market segmentation:<br />

segments by application are clear;<br />

segments by region have light shading, and<br />

segments by platform have diagonal lines. The<br />

sum of any one type of shading equals the<br />

total $4.5 billion software market. Corresponding<br />

to this figure. Table 1 lists market size and<br />

1990-to-1991 growth rates by segment, for<br />

both software revenue and total revenue.<br />

In 1991, the platform category of servers was<br />

created. Most of the revenue for servers came<br />

from what had formerly been classified as<br />

technical workstations, which depressed the<br />

apparent growth rate of technical workstations.<br />

In reality, workstations are the largest market<br />

platform, and had a better-than-average growth<br />

rate. In the illustration, workstations and servers<br />

are combined. In total, computer hardware<br />

sold into <strong>CAD</strong>/<strong>CAM</strong>/<strong>CAE</strong>/GIS remained flat<br />

with 1990 revenue.<br />

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$3B<br />

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