Market and Technology Trends

Automotive Radar 2025

Oct 2025

Rising volumes, tightening margins: global radar suppliers fight to keep share in the $8.2B market as China’s fast-moving ecosystem sets the pace.

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Key features

2020-2024 historical and 2025-2030 forecast for:
- PC/LCV
- Radar modules ($M/Munits)
- Radar devices ($M/Munits)
- Radar chipset wafer starts (wafer volume)
Split by frequency, mounting position, computing, MMIC/SoC and antenna type.
From module to device: overview of the radar supply chain and 2024 market shares
Deep insight into radar module and device suppliers, their portfolio and their marketing strategy.
Overview of the technology trends in radar, from module to antenna and devices.

What's new

Analysis of SoC radar adoption and forecast and market partitioning between SoC and MMIC
Special focus on China: Analysis of the Chinese ecosystem in terms of technology offering, competitive landscape and market shares
Review of ASP assumptions of radar devices and modules to reflect the price erosion that industry is facing

Report's objectives

Analyze technology evolution: Examine current and emerging automotive radar technologies, including chipset functionality (MMIC vs. SoC), packaging architectures, antenna integration (planar PCB vs. 3D waveguide), semiconductor platforms (SiGe, RF-CMOS, FD-SOI), and system design choices. The report highlights how these technologies are reshaping radar performance, cost structure, and scalability for next-generation ADAS and autonomous driving systems.
Assess market size and growth: Provide a detailed overview of the global automotive radar market, covering both module and device levels. This includes shipment volumes, market values, and forecasts segmented by radar type (legacy, 4D, imaging), radar location (Front, rear corner, front corner), frequency (24GHz, 77GHz)
Evaluate competitive landscape: Identify leading players across Tier-1 and Tier-2 levels, analyzing their market shares, product portfolios, and technological positioning. The report also examines how competition between established suppliers and emerging Chinese players is influencing pricing, innovation, and ecosystem dynamics.
Understand market dynamics and regulatory context: Explore the broader trends driving radar adoption such as NCAP program evolution, global regulatory mandates for safety features (AEB, LCA, BSD), and OEM advancements toward higher levels of autonomy (L2+ to L3). The study also evaluates how radar complements other sensing technologies, including cameras, lidar, and ultrasonic sensors, in achieving full environmental perception.

Radar becomes the everyday backbone of ADAS

Automotive radar is moving from premium to mass-market, with 77–81 GHz modules becoming the standard for safety compliance and richer perception. Driven by regulations and NCAP programs, multi-radar setups (front and corner radar) are scaling across entry and mid trims while L2+/L3 platforms adopt higher spec.

4D radar with elevation sensing is rapidly becoming baseline, and imaging radar defines the advanced tier for extended range and fine angular resolution. OEMs favor SoC-centric, cost-optimized sensors and compact AiP designs to balance performance and BOM.

China already showcases five-radar strategies, underscoring the global shift toward robust ADAS architectures.

In-cabin sensing emerges next: occupancy detection and vital-sign monitoring bring radar intelligence inside the vehicle. Overall, the radar module market totaled $8B in 2024 and is expected to reach $13B by 2030.

China’s Radar Rise: The Value Chain Reshuffled

Chinese momentum is redefining ADAS radar from PC/LCV platforms to Tier-1 sourcing with BYD, Geely, and Chery are catalyzing “in China, for China” supply chains. Radar Tier-1 leaders (Aumovio, Aptiv, Bosch, Forvia Hella, Denso, Magna) face fast-rising local competitors such as Sensor Tech (WHST) and Cheng-Tech, as OEMs localize technology and supply chains. New entrants from carmakers (BYD/FinDreams, SAIC/HASCO), automotive part suppliers (Weifu, HiRain) to consumer-tech (Huawei) are expanding the ecosystem.

The stack is shifting: RFIC and radar SoC advances on CMOS drive cost-optimized corner radar and scalable 77–81 GHz performance, while imaging radar anchors the premium tier. Semiconductor players like NXP, Infineon, Texas Instruments, Calterah, plus emerging chipmakers power localized module and chipset roadmaps.

Inside the cabin, 60 GHz and UWB enable occupancy and presence detection. Outcome: a diversified, software-aware radar ecosystem where localization, partnerships, and platform integration set the pace.

Two-Speed Radar: SoC for Volume, Centralized Perception for Premium

The radar chipset market in 2024 remains dominated by MMIC-based designs (over 90%), where RFICs are paired with MCUs for edge-level processing inside the module. SoC radar solutions are gaining momentum in entry-to-mid segments, especially for corner and front radars in cost-sensitive ADAS. TI and NXP are leading the transition globally, Calterah holds a strong lead in China, and Bosch is ramping proprietary SoC solutions.

Semiconductor choices are evolving to support this shift. CMOS at 22/28 nm is gaining traction for both RFICs and SoCs, with nearly all major players having at least one radar generation on CMOS. SiGe is expected to continue retrenching as more Tier-1s build their next generations on CMOS, with SiGe largely serving legacy platforms. Some vendors are selecting FD-SOI in imaging radars for lower power and other advantages.

The need to raise radar resolution and robustness to support higher autonomy levels is nudging the architecture toward simpler “satellite” sensors that forward data to centralized compute. Edge-based processing will remain dominant in mainstream ADAS near term, but higher-level autonomy is expected to migrate toward centralized approaches.