2010年101热门器件排行榜：你会选择其中哪些？(1)

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Top 101 Components 2011: Hot Components Everywhere—Which Ones Did You Choose?

2010年元器件排名101：热门器件遍布各领域——你会选择哪些？

Of the top 101 components, LEDs, power sources, and connectors sizzle while motors and motion control products continue to chill.

在最好的101款元器件中，LED、电源和连接器表现极好，及时马达和运动控制产品持续看淡。

“How do I submit a nomination for the top spot on your Top 101 Components list?” the desperate e-mail from one component creator decries. Another phone message from an eager PR person queries, “How do we vote for Component of the Year?”

“101款元器件排名中我怎么提交哪些产品啊？”一封来自元器件厂商的邮件责问道。另外一个热情的公关人员问，“年度元器件要怎么投票？”

Urgent text messages, phone calls, letters, and notes attached to radishes the size of pearls all have demanded the means and methods of getting a favorite product positioned in our Top 101 Components. But components only land our list if our readers put them there.

紧急的短信、电话、信件和便条蜂拥而至，希望了解年度101款元器件的情况，并在投票中占有一席之地。但提名的元器件都来自读者。

Yes, it’s that time again when we reveal which components from ourProducts of the Week e-mail newsletter drew the most curiosity and interest over the past year. Essentially, the components that garnered the most clicks made it onto the list.

没错，又到了从我们的每周的电子邮件产品快递中挑选出过去一年中最引人注意和最有趣的年度产品的时候了。原则上，最多点击的产品会出现在名单上。

It’s important to realize that this is not a qualitative analysis. Products that drew a lot of interest and scored higher than others in the same category aren’t necessarily superior in performance or any other measurable parameter.

要明白的重要一点在于，产品并不是按照质量来评选的。同一产品门类中，最能引发兴趣的产品未必是性能表现和其他可测量参数最好的产品。

For example, one USB connector drew more views than an HDMI connector. Both devices are interconnects. However, the results merely show that more readers needed a USB connector for their designs than the HDMI component.

例如，一款USB连接器的关注人数比一款HDMI连接器得多，两个设备都属于互联产品，但结果显示，更多用户在他们的设计中需要用到USB连接器而非HDMI器件。

The Big Picture

Obviously, components are critical to almost every design imaginable. Whereas semiconductors are becoming more integrated, so much so that a lot of discrete semiconductors are becoming unnecessary, components are still maintaining a level singularity—quite discrete, if you will. Therefore, even within a single category of component, one has somewhat more choices.

很明显，元器件在想得到的大多数设计中都是非常关键的。虽然半导体整合度越来越高，外围分立器件也越来越不必要，但元器件仍旧独立存在——仍然是分离的。因此，即使在单独的器件门类中，你仍旧有多个选择。

There was positive action in each component category this year, but some categories seem to be losing steam in the market, or better put, losing more steam (see the table). The categories included interconects (19%), power sources (17%), sensors & transducers (16%), passive components (14%), displays, indicators, and LEDs (13%), cabinets & enclosures (4%), motors & motion control (4%), timing devices (2%), materials (2%), and cooling products (1%).

今年的每个门类中都有一些不错的产品，但有些门类在市场上失去了热点，或者说失去了很多发展动力（见图表）。这些门类包括互联(19%)，电源(17%),传感器和转换器（16%），被动元器件(14%)，显示，指示器，以及LED(13%)，机柜和机架(4%)，马达和运动控制(4%)，计时设备(2%)，材料(2%)和冷却设备(1%)。

What’s Hot?

Connectors, power sources, sensors,passive components, and displays—especially LEDs—were the hot products over the past year. The most logical explanation here is that alternative lighting, a.k.a., solid-state lighting (SSL), is quite the rage now, particularly due to environmentalist rallying and forthcoming legislation that will eliminate incandescent bulbs from the market.

连接器、电源、传感器、被动元器件和显示——特别是LED显示是去年最热门的产品门类。对此最合理的解释是新的照明方式，如固态照明(SSL)市场大发展，特别是在环保呼声高，各地区的禁止白炽灯法规上市的规范不断出台的情况下。

Power sources really need no explanation, since they’re required in all electronic products. Ditto for the interconnects, passive components, and sensors. One minor note, though. Although interconnects and power sources topped the list, most of the components in the top 10 are LEDs. Perhaps it’s a further testament to the popularity of these “enlightening” components. perhaps?

电源则无需解释，所有电子设备都需要电源，互联、被动元器件和传感器也是一样。要注意的一点是，虽然互联和电源排名靠前，但前十位中最多还是LED。也许预示着“照明”器件比较受欢迎？

What’s Cooling Down?

As time goes on, motors and motion control products seem to be making fewer appearances in the new product arena, at least where most consumer goods are concerned. The bulk of consumer electronics is moving away from using moving parts in their designs. The lack of a motor makes for a smaller product with less to wear out and fail.

随着时间推移，马达和运动控制产品在新产品中使用的越来越少，起码大多数消费类产品中如此。消费电子的重点已经从元器件转向了设计，不使用马达可以让产品更小型化、更不容易出问题。

Auto-focusing image sensors are eliminating the need for lens-driving motors in cameras. Silicon alternatives are replacing computer disk drives. And since most consumers are favoring MP3s and streaming media to CDs and DVDs, standalone players, which often use two or more motors, are starting to waltz their way to the recycling bin.

自动对焦的图像传感器使电机驱动的镜头不再必要，硅半导体存储也替代了传统硬盘。由于大多数消费者更喜欢MP3格式的流媒体而非CD和DVD，独立的音乐播放器类产品也越来越少，这些产品中曾使用更多的马达，但现在已经被逐渐抛弃。

This doesn’t mean there isn’t a healthy market for motion products. For example, home appliances, robotics, medical, and military markets are fertile ground for motors as well as cabinets and enclosures, timing devices, and cooling products.

当然这不意味着运动产品就没有健康的市场。例如家用电器、机器人、医疗和军事市场仍需要马达、机柜和机架、计时设备和冷却产品。

(待续……)