Communications semiconductor market share rankings to see growth in hot areas

Of worldwide wireless semiconductor market, 2005 is an extraordinary year, but not calm. According to market research firm iSuppli released the day before the market share ranking data, seems to be a few happy tears".

2005 global wireless communications semiconductor device sales of $14 billion 300 million, compared with $14 billion 200 million in 2004 increased by nearly 0.6%. However, the growth rate of each supplier varies greatly. The aim of Gigabit Ethernet, IP phone (VoIP), or ADSL (deep-packet processing) deep packet processing suppliers to achieve two digit growth in other areas; lock supplier sales revenue was flat or declining.

The leader of the high growth group again belongs to the first supplier Broadcom (Broadcom). Broadcom continues to wired communication semiconductor market two digit growth leader in 2005, the sales revenue of $1 billion 100 million, an increase of 26.7% compared to $901 million in 2004, in the market of the top 10 suppliers in the highest growth rate. In the rapidly growing field of wired communications, the company's sales growth, in fact, during 2005, VOIP, ADSL and Gigabit Ethernet sales doubled.

In the broadband front, Broadcom firmly established in the whole DSL market in the top three positions in 2005 sales growth of 71%. Conexant systems with 32% market share, in 2005 during the first to keep the share in the ADSL chip market, TI 23%, Broadcom 17% market share followed by. Among the ADSL market leaders, only Broadcom and Infineon grew more than two digits over the previous year. Infineon's ADSL infrastructure sales revenue grew by 27%, making it ranked in the field of the third.

In 2005 the top ten cable communications semiconductor suppliers, TI's sales revenue grew from $608 million in 2004 to $750 million, sales growth of 23.4%, growth rate is second of the company; this strong performance, with Intel and Infineon Technologies related to TI from weakness, ranked fourth in 2004 rose to the market ranked second a.

TI locked in 2005 ADSL user terminal equipment (CPE) chips, so that it continues to grow throughout the wired communications, and beyond Conexant and Broadcom, occupy the first position in the ADSL CPE market. The company also entered the VoIP market, the market share in the field rose from 32% in 2004 to the 2005 of 38%.

Substantial growth in 2005 in the market of other wired chip chip suppliers including: Realtek semiconductor company, its 2005 sales growth of 68% IC Ethernet; Marvell, the Ethernet sales expanded by 17%; Legerity, IC subscriber line interface (SLIC) sales growth of 14%; Ikanos, VDSL chip sales growth of 42%;

In 2005, the top 10 ranked semiconductor provider of cable communications, the largest decline in sales revenue is Intel, from $867 million in 2004 to $587 million in 2005, a decline of up to $32.3%. Almost all of the losses came from Intel's ASSP line of wire communications, which declined $275 million in sales in 2005. Other suppliers of poor in 2005 because they did not pay enough attention to the growth of the market, including the traditional wired communication system and STMicroelectronics leader Nigel, decline reached 6.3% and 18.2%.

For chip vendors, the lesson of 2005 is to seek opportunities for broadband access, including: VoIP, ADSL and deep packet processing. However, unfamiliar suppliers to the Ethernet market are being carefully entered, and leaders Broadcom, Marvell and Intel are not willing to give up the market.