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Qualcomm grabs half of baseband IC market

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Qualcomm grabs half of baseband IC market

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Dylan McGrath   11/2/2012 12:28 PM EDT

 

Fabless chip giant increased market share as Intel, MediaTek fought for No. 2 position in first half of 2012.

 

SAN FRANCISCO—Qualcomm Inc.’s share of the global cellular baseband processor market improved to 51 percent in the first half of 2012,

up from 45 percent for all of 2011, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics.

Qualcomm (San Diego) improved its dominant position in the cellular baseband market on the strength of its leading position in CDMA, W-CDMA and LTE basebands,

according to Strategy Analytics (Boston).

Overall, the global cellular baseband processor market registered an impressive 15 percent year-over-year growth in the first half of this year to reach $8.1 billion,

according to the market research firm.

While Qualcomm improved its market share, Intel Corp. and Taiwan’s MediaTek Inc. continued to fight tooth and nail for the No. 2 position in the market,

Strategy Analytics said.

 

Intel, which entered the market with its acquisition of Infineon Technologies AG’s wireless chip unit last year,

slipped from the No. 2 position in 2011 to No. 3 in the first half of this year,

with its market share declining to 12.1 percent from 15 percent,

Strategy Analytics said.

 

Intel registered strong 2G baseband shipments, the firm said.

"Intel ranked number two in the W-CDMA market in the first half of 2012, behind Qualcomm,"

said to Sravan Kundojjala, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, in a statement.

 

He added that Intel scored multiple high-profile W-CDMA design-wins at tier-one handset manufacturers in the first half of the year.

"Strategy Analytics believes Intel’s upcoming first LTE baseband platform, XMM7060, has the potential to cut into Qualcomm’s LTE baseband lead in future,"

Kundojjala said.

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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