Communications Chip Market generated revenues of $9.4 billion in 3Q 2007 up by around 6% sequentially on Q-o-Q basis. The total shipments estimated during the period were 819 million chips. Shipments increased by about 1% q-o-q. Texas Instruments leads the market with estimated 18.5% market share. Other leaders for the quarter are Freescale, STMicrosystems, Broadcom and Qualcomm. Together the top 5 leaders had around 58% of the market share during 3Q07.
After generic networking chips, broadband continues to be the main contributor to the overall communication chips segment. During the quarter broadband chips contributed around $2.2 billion which is 23.4% of the overall communications chip revenues for the quarter. Cellular chip revenues for 3Q 2007, were estimated at $2.1 billion which is 22.3% of the industry revenues. 802.11x wireless technologies and Bluetooth communication devices consumed around $1.1 billion worth of chips in the quarter which translates into 11.7% of the entire chip revenues. VoIP is ranked 5th largest contributor to communication chip industry followed by optical networking chip segment.
The companies we track in our Communications Chip segment include: Allegro Microsystems, Altera, AMCC, Analog Devices, Atmel, Broadcom, Broadlight, Centillium, Conexant, CSR, Dalsemiconductors, DSP Group, Entropic, Fortmedia, Freescale, Ikanos, Infineon, Integrated Device Technology, Intersil, Lattice Semiconductors, Linear Technolgies, LSI, Marvell, Maxim IC, Metalink, Micrel, Microchip Technology, Micron Technology, Microsemi, Mindspeed, NeoMagic, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP, Parrot S.A., PMC-Sierra, Powerchip Semiconductor, Qualcomm, Quellan, Rabbit Semiconductor, Realtek, Renesas Technology, Samsung Electronics (Semiconductor division), Semtech, Sequans, SiGe, Silicon Laboratories, Silicon Optix, Sirenza, SmartCode Corp., SMIC, Spirit DSP, STMicrosystems, Sychip, Tarari, Teknovus, Texas Instruments, Transwitch, Triquint, TSMC, Western Design Center, Wintegra, WolfSon, Xilinx, Zarlink, ZiLOG.