Monday, July 19, 2010

Chips Ahoy!!

In Aug 2007 LSI Logic Corp. announced it would sell off its mobility products business unit to Infineon Technologies AG, and in September of the same year the number of baseband suppliers was further reduced when MediaTek Inc. purchased Analog Devices Inc.'s baseband chip product line.

Infineon now has the main stake in this business with 25% of the revenues coming from it.

In the rankings in the baseband market the main players were QCOM, MediaTek, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Infineon Technologies, Broadcom, Renesas, Marvell Technology Group and Spreadtrum Communications, according to iSuppli.

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