DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9daf9d/global_and_china_m) has announced the addition of the "Global and China Mobile Phone and Tablet PC Processor Industry Report, 2010-2011" report to their offering.
This report on mobile phone processors mainly covers baseband processor and application processor, while tablet PC processor mostly refers to GPUs. Mobile phone processors are undergoing huge changes and the original pattern will witness sharp fluctuations.
TI ranked the first in mobile phone baseband industry for consecutive years in the 2G era by virtue of cooperation with Nokia. However, the great success in the 2G era has resulted in the comparatively late startup of TI in 3G era and TI has been surpassed by Qualcomm. TI holds the view that it is the analog and DSP instead of mobile phone base that compose the core businesses. The mobile phone baseband sector features huge and continuous investment, usually several hundred millions of US dollars per annum; the life cycle of analog device could be more than 30 years, and the input-output ratio is far higher than that of mobile phone baseband sector. As early as 2009, TI announced to end the mobile phone baseband business in 2012.
Nokia, the sole mobile phone manufacturer participating in mobile phone baseband design, has found a new partner-Renesas. In July 2010, Nokia transferred its baseband design team to Renesas for US$200 million, which indicated that a majority of Nokia basebands in 4G era would be supplied by Renesas.
Renesas boasts excellent RF technology and multimedia processing technology. In February 2011, Renesas launched SP2531, the 4G triple-mode baseband processor, and the application processor based MP5225. MP5225 is the combination of SP2531 and SH-Mobile APE5R. Renesas has claimed to be the global No.1 vendor in mobile phone baseband in 2015, which might come true if Nokia remains in the first position worldwide in 2015.
In August 2010, Intel purchased the Wireless Division of Infineon for US$1.4 billion so as to obtain the 4G baseband and RF technology; together with the GPU centering on ATOM, Intel can make the core processors of smart phones and hence compete with Qualcomm. Engaged in GPU sector for years, Intel enjoys outstanding experience and technologies and it is the biggest shareholder of Imagination Technologies.
The GPU IP core of Imagination Technologies is the PowerVR series which are employed in every generation iPhones and iPads. Moreover, the OMAPs after 3 series of TI, APE5R of Renesas, and NGP of Sony all use PowerVR as GPU IP core.
On May 9, 2011, NVIDIA declared to acquire Icera, the developer of baseband chips, for US$367 million. In the future, NVIDIA will share a similar development strategy with Intel to integrate the baseband chips in Tegra processor, enhance the competitiveness in smart phone market, and help the mobile phone/tablet PC manufacturers to reduce R&D difficulties and manufacturing cost.
Key Topics Covered:
- Global Mobile Phone Market
- Market Size
- Market Share of Mobile Phone Manufacturers
- Smartphone Market and Industry
- Chinese Mobile Phone Industry
- Global and China Tablet PC Market
- Global Tablet PC Market Size
- Chinese Tablet PC Market
- OS and Hardware
- Status Quo and Future of Mobile Phone and Tablet PC Processor
- Development Orientation of ARM Core
- 4G Baseband Core
- Application Processor Core
- Mobile Phone GPU
- Mobile Phone Processor Comparison, 2011 vs. 2012
- Market Share of Mobile Phone Processor Manufacturers
- Status Quo of Tablet PC Processor
- Mobile Phone Manufacturers
- Manufacturers of Mobile Phone Processor
Companies Mentioned:
- Nokia
- Motorola
- Samsung
- Sony Ericsson
- LG
- RIM
- Apple
- HTC
- ZTE
- Huawei
- Tianyu
- MTK
- TI
- Marvell
- Qualcomm
- Renesas
- NVIDIA
- Broadcom
- ST-Ericsson
- Freescale
- Spreadtrum
- Infineon
- Samsung
- Telechips
- Rockchips
- MStar
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