MediaTek to launch mobile TV chips in 2010, say sources
당시 가격이 US$350 M 정도.
설립된지 10년정도에 세계 4등 fabless company. wow~ custom한 설계로 가격 경쟁력이 뛰어남
대만의 TSMC UMC등을 통해 혜택을 보고 있음.
Digitimes - 2009. 10. 22.
MediaTek will roll out mobile TV solutions supporting the DVB-H and DVB-T standards in 2010, according to market sources. The designer is also considering the possibility of developing chip solutions compliant with China's CMMB mobile TV standard.
Market sources have speculated that MediaTek may partner with ALi to march into the mobile TV market. However, MediaTek tends to develop in-house solutions, while ALi plans to add mobile TV function in digital multimedia player products to differentiate from MediaTek's target markets, the sources added.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091022PD215.htmlChaos reigns in Top20 Semiconductor Company Ranking
The global recession and subsequent inventory corrections in the electronic system and semiconductor industries have caused a major shakeup in the 1Q09 Top20 semiconductor company ranking. The IC Insights’ May Update to The McClean Report states that the volatility in the ranking is forecast to continue in 2Q09.
Climbers:
Qualcomm
— The world’s largest fabless IC supplier, which focuses on leading-edge
cellphone devices, moved from being ranked 8th in 2008 to 6th in 1Q09. IC
Insights anticipates increasingly positive news for Qualcomm as high-end
cellphone (e.g., smartphone) sales pick up speed throughout 2009. AMD — Jumped
into the Top10 group, moving up three spots from 12th in 2008 to 9th in 1Q09.
However, AMD is one of the few top semiconductor companies that has stated it
expects 2Q09 sales to be worse than in 1Q09. How long will it stay in the
Top10?
MediaTek — High-flying fabless IC
supplier MediaTek joined the Top20 ranking by jumping five positions. In fact,
MediaTek was the only Top20 semiconductor supplier to register a 1Q09/4Q08
sequential sales increase, a whopping 16% surge! The company attributed part of
its success to the "stay-at-home-economy" driving digital TV IC sales as well as
continued strength in its core wireless communications
business.
Decenders:
TSMC —
The largest foundry in the world dropped six positions in the 1Q09 ranking but
managed to stay in the Top10. It is well known that fabless IC suppliers are
some of the worst offenders with regard to IC inventory builds and burns. With
fabless companies representing the bulk of TSMC’s sales, the company has been
caught in a hellacious two-quarter inventory burn period (4Q08 and 1Q09), with
1Q09 sales 57% less than were registered in 3Q08!
However, the
anticipated recovery in TSMC’s sales will be one of the most significant
rebounds witnessed in the IC industry this year. Using current exchange rates,
it is expected that TSMC’s 2Q09 sales will be about $2.2 billion, a sequential
increase of 89%! Moreover, IC Insights believes that if this level of sales is
achieved next quarter, it would serve to rank TSMC as the third largest
semiconductor supplier in the world in 2Q09!
NXP and
Nvidia — These two companies fell out of the Top20 ranking in
1Q09, with NXP falling from being ranked 15th in 2008 to 21st in 1Q09 and Nvidia
dropping from 20th to 22nd. However, IC Insights
expects a significant
rebound in both of these companies’ sales in 2Q09, maybe even enough to put them
back into the Top20!
