Communications Chip revenue up 5% Q-o-Q
Communications Chip market generated estimated revenues of $9.8 billion in 4Q07, up by around 5% sequentially on Q-o-Q basis. Total shipments estimated during the period were 854 million chips. Texas Instruments leads the market with estimated 17.1% market share. Other leaders for the quarter are Freescale, STMicrosystems, Broadcom and Qualcomm which – among the four of them - held around 58% of the market during 4Q07.
Broadband segment is the main contributor to the overall communication chip shipments. However during the quarter broadband chips contribution remained flat at around $2.2 billion which is 22.6% of the overall communications chip revenues for the quarter.
Cellular chip revenues for 4Q07 were estimated at $2.2 billion. 802.11x wireless technologies and Bluetooth communication devices consumed around $1.2 billion worth of chips in the quarter. VoIP is ranked 5th largest contributor to communication chip industry followed by optical networking chip segment. Optical chip area saw the biggest jump in growth among various chip segments.
The companies we track in our Communications Chip reports 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.
