The second quarter DSP sales fell 1.1% U.S. strong market

Market research company Forward Concepts DSP in the global sales of its latest report published in both, there are some exciting disappointing news, there is some good news. June DSP shipments reached $703 million, an increase of 20.4%, but shipments fell in the first quarter of this year than in the first quarter of this year by 1.1% in. According to Forward Concepts, shipments in the first half decreased by 1.9% over the same period in 2004.

Second quarter shipments compared with the first quarter DSP shipments, the most obvious improvement is automotive applications, growth of 10.6%, while consumer oriented applications DSP shipments fell 12.1%.

DSP overall second quarter sales of $184 million 400 thousand, mobile phone is still the main areas which contributed $123 million in shipments. But Forward Concepts, chief analyst at Will Strauss warned that the face of the wireless sector, including infrastructure and mobile phone manufacturers, shipments were flat with the first quarter. Mobile phone shipments in the first half increased by 4.7% over the same period in 2004.

Perhaps the second quarter shipments and most surprising places, to America DSP shipments increased significantly (15.6%), mainly the United States and the Asia Pacific region; flow volume decreased by 9.3%, mainly South Korea and China. This is in line with the trend of the production business in the past few years to significantly shift to the Asia Pacific region.

Strauss pointed out that only the mobile phone market is only likely to result in a dramatic change. He said: "who is the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the United States? Motorola. Who is Motorola's largest DSP supplier? Carle and qualcomm." There is no big change in the European market, that is, NOKIA and Sony Ericsson. "China's mobile phone inventory problem still seems to exist," he concluded."

Strauss speculated that by market research firm Strategy Analytics data confirmed. Strategy Analytics pointed out that the second quarter of 2005, global mobile phone sales grew by 18% over the previous year, reaching 188 million. Because in the rapidly growing emerging markets in the second quarter of 2005, Motorola won the annual growth of 41%, and the Samsung Corp opened the distance, the latter in the second quarter of the market share of only 13%. Followed by LG, the market share of 12.1%, Sony Ericsson ranked in the top 11.8% in the fifth. Due to the impact of entry-level and mid-range market sales, Samsung Corp second quarter market performance, the annual growth of only 7%.