Experts interpret the mobile phone chip market. The mobile phone chip market is ever-changing. Let\'s listen to the experts interpret the global semiconductor output market size, which accounts for more than 10% to 20% each year. Mobile phones have become the most popular application platform for semiconductor manufacturers. In particular, the high technical barriers and close supply chain relationships of mobile phone chips have made industry consolidation, reshuffles and patent mutual control a trend. In response to the development trend of this hot chip market and the competition and cooperation of manufacturers, the IEK-ITIS program of the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan has published a latest research report to explore in depth. Kuo Qiuling, an analyst at the IEK-ITIS program of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, said that since the second half of 2006, there have been frequent mergers and acquisitions and patent lawsuits in the mobile phone chip industry, such as NXP\'s acquisition of SiliconLabs\' mobile communications department, Marvell\'s acquisition of Intel\'s communications and application processor business, and the recent acquisition of GPS chip manufacturer GlobalLocate by Broadcom, and Broadcom\'s lawsuit against Qualcomm for patent rights and its victory in the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in June 2006. At present, in addition to Qualcomm, TI, Freescale and other IDM manufacturers who have already conquered the mobile phone chip market, in recent years, the top IC design companies Broadcom, Marvell and MediaTek have continued to deepen their layout in the mobile phone chip market, which has led to subtle changes in the mobile phone chip market competition landscape. Low-priced mobile phones have become the main force in the market, and chip design faces new challenges. According to the IEK-ITIS plan, the global mobile phone market shipments will maintain a scale of about 1.05 billion to 1.3 billion units from 2007 to 2011. Although the growth of the mobile phone market has slowed down after the rapid growth period before 2000, the emerging markets, the rise of the ultra-low-priced mobile phone market and the wave of replacement are expected to remain the main support for the mobile phone market. Guo Qiuling pointed out that there are two major development trends in the mobile phone market. One is the rapid progress of communication technology standards (Technology Migration). In 2007, the second-generation communication technologies such as GSM/GPRS/EDGE still accounted for 60% of the market, but by 2011, the mobile phone market is expected to gradually shift to the mainstream specifications 3G/3.5G standards. Another notable trend is the integration of multimedia and connectivity in mobile phones.
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