Released on: April 4, 2008, 2:57 am

Press Release Author: iLocus

Industry: Telecommunications

Press Release Summary: The Communications Chip market - which we segment into
Broadband, Cellular, 802.11x/Bluetooth, VoIP, Optical, and General Networking -
generated estimated $36.6 billion in the year 2007. That revenue was generated by
shipping an estimated 3.73 billion chips during the year.

Press Release Body: The Communications Chip market - which we segment into
Broadband, Cellular, 802.11x/Bluetooth, VoIP, Optical, and General Networking -
generated estimated $36.6 billion in the year 2007. That revenue was generated by
shipping an estimated 3.73 billion chips during the year. The analysis comes from
our annual chip report, Global Communications Chip Market 2008, published today.

Texas Instruments leads the market earning around $6.6 billion and thus holding 18%
of the communications chip market share. Other leaders in the market include
Freescale, ST Microelectronics, Broadcom and Qualcomm. Collectively the top 5 chip
vendors had revenues of about $21.3 billion which accounted for 58% of the market
revenues.

Broadband and cellular chips were the major contributors of revenue to the overall
Communications Chip market. Broadband contributed 22.6% of the total revenues while
21.7% were contributed by the chips consumed by cellular devices. Within our
segmentation, Optical Networking chips contributed the least i.e. $1.4 billion of
the total communications chip revenues for the year.

During the year, communications chip companies were focused on making their chips
feature rich, striking a balance between size optimization and increasing power, and
producing multifunctional chips while containing the costs. While the long term
migration plans are yet to be ironed out several startups are taking the opportunity
to serve the niches and alternatives.

TOC of the report can be accessed here.
http://www.ilocus.com/gccm08.htm




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Contact Details: Faisal Kawoosa
Analyst
iLocus
faisal@ilocus.com
+91-194-2300700