BEIJING, CHINA: CCID Consulting recently released an article where it said that the compound growth rate of the output in China's broadcasting mobile TV will reach 225.5 percent during the period of 2008- 2012.

With the drive of export and domestic demands, China's mobile phone output continues to grow in 2007, reaches 554 million sets, with a growth rate of 25.4 percent. The volume of export is 322 million sets, which accounts for 58.2 percent.

Currently, China's global mobile phone manufacturing base is quite steady. Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have transferred their capacities to China; because of this factor, the export volume of China's mobile phone increases 26.2 percent. Meanwhile, China's domestic mobile phone enterprises' capacity increases are evident, especially ZTE, Huawei and K-Touch.

The size of China's mobile phone chip market reaches 84.41 billion Yuan in 2007, up 23.9 percent over 2006.

Mobile phone output is still the major factor affecting the chip market. Upgrade of phones, new functions, new applications and single chip products' promotion are also chip market's major influence factors.

As for mobile phone market's application structure, baseband processor module has the largest share, which accounts for 26.5 percent.

With multimedia functions becoming more sophisticated, multimedia applied chip's share is 21.6 percent; although mobile phones' storage increases, affected by storage
prices' drop and MCP applications' increase, storage's share reflects a downslide trend, which has decreased from 24.2 percent in 2006 to 19.4 percent in 2007.
 

In recent years, single chip solutions' application grows rapidly; affected by this, the shares of power management chip and RF module decrease.

Besides, affected by the increase of smart phones, GPS mobile phones, Bluetooth/WiFi function mobile phones and application processors, market share of wireless connection chip and other chips increases and is likely to keep increasing in future years.

Mobile phones' baseband chip is the core of mobile phones' hardware, the integration of its components will directly affect the change of mobile phone platform's structure. Mobile phone baseband chip market can be divided into seven types, with DBB+ABB enjoying a larger market share.

Chief users include Qualcomm, NXP, Agere, Broadcom, Freescale, Infineon and MTK; the next is DBB/ABB+PM, adopted by TI and ST; with the increase of low cost mobile phones, ABB+ABB+RF+PMU market grows rapidly, whose market share is 10.4 percent.

As for market development in recent years, with integration in baseband chips, the shares of single chip solution DBB+ABB+RF+PMU and integrated application processor DBB+APP solution increase. Excluding baseband chip, mobile phones' multimedia processor chip, wireless connection chip and storage chip trend to integrate.