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Smart Phones to Drive Mobile Chips Market
May 17, 2007 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
BEIJING The Semiconductor Industry Research Center of CCID Consulting reports that mobile phone production in China experienced typically slow growth in Q'01 2007 from Q'04 2006, but overall grew 45.7% in 2006. The mobile phone chip market did not slow as much as mobile phone production, due in part to the increasing prevalence of smart phones.
Mobile phone output from China hit 112.920 million sets in Q'01, down from 125.481 million in the previous quarter. The second half of 2006 saw high growth in this market, driving the fastest sector growth since 2002, according to CCID. China's mobile phone output is expected to grow throughout 2007. In 2006, China exported 61.2% of mobile phones produced in the country, said analyst Yue Ting of CCID. The chip market in the mobile phone sector is less volatile than the end-product output, notes CCID, because of the increased percentage of devices targeting high-end, multi-application phones incorporating cameras, music players, information processing, and mobile interconnection.
CCID finds a trend of continuously declining prices for smart-phone chips. This is caused by price competion, as chip design firms in Taiwan and China grow larger, explained Ting. Other causes include the increasing proportion of phones incorporating advanced components for GPS, media, and storage; and a trend of integration consolidating these functions, she added. As smart phones take over a larger percent of total mobile phone output in China, these products are projected to promote increased production in China by the end of 2007. In the future, forecasts CCID, the smart phone chip market will become the driving indicator of the entire mobile phone chip market. Commercial use of 3G in China is also stimulating the mobile phone chip market.
Growing internal memory capacity, beyond attached storage cards, is necessitated by increased multimedia functions in mobile phones. The price of NAND flash will dictate built-in storage capacity. NAND is currently declining in price, ramping up storage capacity in mobile phone designs.