Continuing from 2020, 2021 has been affected by the new coronavirus infection. How has the electronic components industry progressed? We asked the person in charge of Switch Science, who knows the trends, to talk while looking at the company's top 100 sales rankings for 2021. Along with the product trends for 2021, there is a glimpse of the special circumstances on the supply side that are different from usual. The sales ranking aggregation period is from November 2020 to October 2021. They are ranked by the current suggested retail price times the number of shipments. We interviewed Yoshimitsu Yasui, who is in charge of purchasing and exhibiting at events at Switch Science, and Yuki Makii, the manager of the online shop, while looking at the rankings.
──I would like to ask about the overall trend in 2021.
──First of all, please tell us about the No. 1 ranking product.
AWS*: Abbreviation for Amazon Web Service. Refers to Amazon's cloud platform that provides computing, storage, databases, and various services useful for machine learning and AI.
Secure element*: A semiconductor product with a security function that withstands analysis attacks from the outside.
──The 2nd place in the ranking is the single board computer "NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier developer kit" for the development of AI-related products, which is the 1st place in 2020.
──With 6th "Raspberry Pi 4 Model B" at the top, Raspberry Pi 4 series products ranked 17th, 18th, 21st, and 26th. Given the fact that the Raspberry Pi 3 is 56th, is it safe to assume that it's almost replaced the 3rd to the 4th?
──In 7th place "Intel RealSense LiDAR Camera L515", in 8th place "Intel RealSense Depth Camera D455" and Intel's AI camera RealSense series It's in.
──The "micro:bit", which is popular as an educational microcomputer board, also reached v2.0 at the end of 2020. Ranked 10th.
──I think "myCobot 280 M5 - Robot Arm" in 22nd place is a unique product among those released in 2021. What do you think of it?
──2021 was a turbulent year with a shortage of semiconductors.
The above was told while looking at the summary table of the best 100 switch science sales rankings in 2021. After all, I feel that the chronic product supply shortage caused by the worldwide shortage of semiconductors has a considerable impact. Will 2022 see the end of this situation and a big shift in the rankings? Another year, I would like to pay attention to trends.
