Embedded Systems Market Report 2025

This Embedded Systems market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market’s characteristics, size, and growth, including segmentation, regional and country-level breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends, and strategies. It also tracks historical and forecasted market growth across various geographies.

The embedded systems market size has grown strongly in recent years. It will grow from $110.89 billion in 2024 to $121.55 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to establishment of standards and certifications ensured the reliability and safety of embedded systems, increasing focus on cybersecurity led to the development of secure embedded systems to protect against vulnerabilities, expansion of global manufacturing capabilities provided cost-effective production of embedded systems, growing consumer demand and energy efficiency.

The embedded systems market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $173.8 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.4%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to demand for systems capable of real-time data processing, decreasing costs of embedded system components, growth in demand for tailored embedded solutions, expansion of embedded systems in developing countries and implementation in solar, wind, and other renewable energy solutions. Major trends in the forecast period include advanced embedded systems for military applications, increasing integration with cloud platforms, growth of Industry 4.0, expansion of telematics services and use of blockchain technology.

The growing emphasis on energy efficiency and sustainability is anticipated to drive the growth of the embedded systems market in the future. Energy efficiency and sustainability involve using less energy to perform the same tasks, thereby reducing energy waste, and employing methods and technologies that fulfill current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. These concepts are increasingly important due to rising concerns about environmental degradation, resource depletion, and climate change. Embedded systems support energy efficiency and sustainability by optimizing energy usage, integrating renewable energy sources, and enabling intelligent grid technologies. For example, in May 2023, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global energy investment increased to $1.74 trillion in 2023 from $1.61 trillion in 2022. In 2023, about USD 2.8 trillion will be invested in energy, with over USD 1.7 trillion allocated to clean energy initiatives, including renewable power, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emission fuels, efficiency enhancements, end-use renewables, and electrification. Therefore, the rising focus on energy efficiency and sustainability is driving the growth of the embedded systems market.

Major companies in the embedded systems market are developing security solutions to protect embedded devices and systems from cyber threats. These security solutions implement measures such as encryption, authentication, and secure boot mechanisms to safeguard embedded devices and systems. For instance, in July 2023, Kaspersky, a cybersecurity and anti-virus software company based in Russia, launched Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security. This solution provides robust protection for Linux-based embedded devices, offering multi-layered defenses, application controls, and integrity monitoring to ensure compliance and protection against evolving threats.

In May 2024, Accenture, a professional services company based in Ireland, acquired Teamexpat for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition supports Accenture's strategy to expand its digital engineering capabilities, particularly within the semiconductor industry. The Teamexpat team will integrate into Accenture's digital engineering division in the Netherlands, enhancing the company's expertise in smart, connected products for clients in the semiconductor and discrete manufacturing sectors. Teamexpat is a Netherlands-based specialist in embedded software.

Major companies operating in the embedded systems market are Samsung Electronics, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Siemens AG, Intel Corporation, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Broadcom Inc., Nvidia Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Infineon Technologies AG, NXP Semiconductors, Analog Devices Inc., Renesas Electronics Corporation, ON Semiconductor, Microchip Technology Inc., Marvell, Vishay Intertechnology Inc., Arm Limited, Silicon Labs, Nordic Semiconductor, Lattice Semiconductor, Raspberry Pi Foundation, Arduino.

North America was the largest region in the embedded systems market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the embedded systems market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the embedded systems market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

Embedded systems are specialized computing systems designed for specific tasks within larger systems or devices. These systems are typically dedicated to a particular function or set of functions and often have real-time computing constraints. They operate in resource-constrained environments, necessitating efficient use of processing power, memory, and energy.

The primary components of embedded systems include hardware, software, and services. The hardware consists of physical elements such as microcontrollers or microprocessors, memory (RAM and ROM), input/output interfaces, sensors, actuators, and communication modules. Their functionality spans real-time, standalone, mobile, and networked systems, ranging from small to large sizes, and are used in various industries such as automotive, consumer electronics, aerospace and defense, healthcare, telecommunications, and industrial sectors.

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The embedded systems market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing services such as custom hardware design, firmware development, software integration, system testing. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The Embedded systems market also includes sales of stm32 microcontrollers, nxp i.mx processors and microchip pic microcontrollers. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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