In 2003, China's DSP market continued to maintain rapid growth, with a total market sales of 266.288 million pieces and total sales of 12.64 billion yuan. China's DSP market has expanded rapidly, mainly due to the growth of China's mobile phone market, digital consumer market and automatic control market.
Three major areas drive the continuous growth of DSP
In China's market, the main application areas of DSP products such as mobile phones and digital cameras are showing good trends and strong demand, which drives the continuous growth of the DSP market. In the wireless field, China's mobile phone users continue to increase on a large scale, and the substantial increase in mobile phone demand has driven the rapid growth of China's DSP market. In the field of digital consumption, China's emerging digital consumer electronic products have entered an active growth period, the market has shown a high growth trend, and the user recognition rate and penetration rate have increased significantly. The rapid growth of the digital consumer market has driven the development of the DSP market. In addition, the digital integration of computers, communications and consumer electronic products has also provided further development opportunities for DSP.
At present, DSP can be seen in applications such as VoIP, DSL, Cable Modem, 3G, digital cameras and motor control that require real-time processing of large amounts of digital information. DSP has undoubtedly become the driving force for the digitalization process.
New applications emerge in an endless stream.
The rapid development of DSP applications has brought a broad space for the development of digital information products, and will support the digital integration of communications, computers and consumer electronics. In the wireless field, DSP is used in wireless switching equipment, base stations, handheld terminals and networks, and covers equipment from backbone infrastructure to broadband access to homes, including VoIP gateways and IP phones, DSL and Cable Modems, etc. For group applications, DSP performs well in applications such as media gateways, video surveillance, professional audio, digital broadcasting, laser printing, etc.; for personal applications, DSP performs well in applications such as portable digital audio and video players, fingerprint recognition and voice recognition, etc.; for embedded digital control applications, DSP greatly meets the needs of the industrial sector, such as digital variable frequency power supply equipment, industrial sewing machines, etc.; DSP also greatly meets the needs of consumer electronics, such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.
With the advancement of DSP production technology and processes, new DSP products will continue to emerge and be widely used.
Domestic DSP manufacturers seek breakthroughs
In 2003, TI, Motorola, Agere and ADI still accounted for 85.6% of the domestic DSP market in China, while other foreign manufacturers accounted for 14.4% of the market, and their products were completely dependent on imports. China is the market with the greatest development potential in Asia. The rapid development of digital products such as digital cameras, MMoIP phones and handheld electronic devices in the domestic market has promoted the widespread use of high-performance DSPs. There are many electronic product manufacturers in China, and there is a huge demand for low-cost and easy-to-use DSPs. However, the monopoly of the DSP market by foreign manufacturers is not conducive to the development of domestic manufacturers. The key chips required for domestic manufacturers' production are still controlled by the above four foreign manufacturers. The production status of foreign manufacturers has a significant impact on the domestic market.
Although the market for major DSP application products is currently controlled by international semiconductor giants, with the support of relevant policies, local manufacturers are actively investing in R&D resources, using consumer products as a "stepping stone" to enter the DSP market, and will surely win a place in the DSP market.
With the launch of the DSP chip "Hanxin No. 1" independently developed by China at Shanghai Jiaotong University, it marks that China has taken the first critical step in the field of DSP chip core technology, and also marks that China's DSP chip manufacturers have begun to join the "close combat" with the "big sharks" in the international IT industry from the consumer electronics market. Although domestic manufacturers are still at a disadvantage in technology, they have many advantages such as low cost, fast market response, and the ability to enter sensitive areas of the country. The characteristics of DSP chips themselves that do not need to rely on a specific operating system have also reduced a lot of burden for domestic manufacturers to enter the relevant market.
Although domestic DSP manufacturers have not really entered the market, the breakthroughs of domestic manufacturers in DSP will inevitably pose a threat to foreign manufacturers in the future market, and the entry of domestic manufacturers will make the market competition more intense.