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You mean the processors no vendor want to use for smartphones?
Qualcomm grabs half of baseband IC market
Dylan McGrath
11/2/2012 12:28 PM EDT
MediaTek back to No. 2
MediaTek, meanwhile, regained the No. 2 position in basebands in the first half of the year, barely slipping past Intel with market share of 12.8 percent, Strategy Analytics said. MediaTek was helped by its strong 3G smartphone baseband processor shipments in the first half of the year, Strategy Analytics said.
According to Stuart Robinson, director of the Strategy Analytics handset component technologies service, MediaTek and Spreadtrum Communications Inc. together accounted for 54 percent of total GSM/GPRS/EDGE baseband shipments in the first half of 2012.
"MediaTek and Spreadrum’s basebands have been adopted by multiple tier-one handset vendors, a testament to their growing influence in the baseband market," Robinson said. "Strategy Analytics believes that MediaTek and Spreadtrum are well-positioned to further their success in 3G and 4G basebands."
Broadcom Corp. and ST-Ericsson rounded out the top five vendors of cellular basebands in the first half of the year, Strategy Analytics said.
Broadcom (Irvine, Calif.) continued to improve its product-mix and ranked No. 4 in the cellular baseband market in the first half of the year, Strategy Analytics said. Broadcom’s 3G baseband shipments grew more than 600 percent year-over-year, the firm said.
LTE baseband shipments registered the highest year-over-year growth among all air interface technologies in the first half of the year, while GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA and iDEN baseband shipments declined during the same period, Strategy Analytics said.
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MediaTek, meanwhile, regained the No. 2 position in basebands in the first half of the year, barely slipping past Intel with market share of 12.8 percent, Strategy Analytics said. MediaTek was helped by its strong 3G smartphone baseband processor shipments in the first half of the year, Strategy Analytics said.
According to Stuart Robinson, director of the Strategy Analytics handset component technologies service, MediaTek and Spreadtrum Communications Inc. together accounted for 54 percent of total GSM/GPRS/EDGE baseband shipments in the first half of 2012.
"MediaTek and Spreadrum’s basebands have been adopted by multiple tier-one handset vendors, a testament to their growing influence in the baseband market," Robinson said. "Strategy Analytics believes that MediaTek and Spreadtrum are well-positioned to further their success in 3G and 4G basebands."
Broadcom Corp. and ST-Ericsson rounded out the top five vendors of cellular basebands in the first half of the year, Strategy Analytics said.
Broadcom (Irvine, Calif.) continued to improve its product-mix and ranked No. 4 in the cellular baseband market in the first half of the year, Strategy Analytics said. Broadcom’s 3G baseband shipments grew more than 600 percent year-over-year, the firm said.
LTE baseband shipments registered the highest year-over-year growth among all air interface technologies in the first half of the year, while GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA and iDEN baseband shipments declined during the same period, Strategy Analytics said.
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- MediaTek cracks top 5 in smartphone apps CPU sales
- TI, Nvidia tied for second in tablet CPUs
- Broadcom slips into top 5 in smartphone CPUs
- Feeling the heat, MediaTek seeks a comeback
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SylvieBarak
11/2/2012 4:19 PM EDT
Just wait til Intel starts integrating baseband onto its processors... then there'll be a real war of the worlds between it and Qualcomm. That'll be fun to watch.
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resistion
11/3/2012 7:52 AM EDT
Yes, then Qualcomm will become like Nvidia.
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eewiz
11/5/2012 11:56 AM EST
You mean the processors no vendor want to use for smartphones?
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sranje
11/6/2012 1:49 PM EST
Hi Dylan,
Always the same information is missing. Market shares given
-- revenues or units
-- BBs - standalone BBs or also BBs integrated with application processors -- and this could also be silicon integrated and/or co-packaged in a multi-chip package
Also feature phone BBs and smartphone BBs are world appart -- apples and oranges in unit prices and features/complexity
Strategy Analytics should of course be able to make profit selling its services. But there should also be a minimum clarity requirement from EETimes. Otherwise this is just noise and waste of time for your readers -- no information. One person opinion.
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