MediaTek Inc (聯發科) established itself as the second-largest maker of Long-Term Evolution (LTE)-enabled cellular baseband processors in the world last year, Strategy Analytics said.
Qualcomm Inc, which has had near total dominance of the high-growth LTE baseband segment in the past — and had a 95 percent share in 2013 — maintained its top spot in the segment last year, the market research firm said, without disclosing its market share.
However, unlike in recent years when other LTE baseband suppliers had too little of a share to be ranked behind Qualcomm, MediaTek had enough of an impact to get a second-place ranking from Strategy Analytics.
The research firm said that MediaTek should continue to gain share in the LTE baseband segment thanks to increased traction in China. MediaTek earlier this year said it aimed to double its LTE market share in China to 40 percent this year, from last year, by shipping more entry-level and mid-tier chips.
“Growing revenue contribution from LTE basebands will lift MediaTek’s baseband revenue share over the next few quarters,” Strategy Analytics RF and wireless component service director Christopher Taylor said.
The global market for all cellular baseband processors, which are used in mobile devices to process wireless communication, grew 14.1 percent year-on-year to reach US$22.1 billion last year.
Spreadtrum, Marvell and Intel filled out the rest of the top-five cellular baseband revenue share spots last year, Strategy Analytics said.
Qualcomm had a 66 percent revenue share, followed by MediaTek with 17 and Spreadtrum with a 5 percent share, it said.
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