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Last year, WiMAX Mobile WiMAX chipset market is stable and rapid development

March 10 news, the Canadian Maravedis wireless broadband market research firm, recently said that mobile WiMAX chipset business in 2009 to achieve the vigorous development, but the whole WiMAX equipment market remains a flat trend.

According to Taiwan media reports, Maravedis CEO and founder of Andiran ? Ferah (AdlaneFellah) pointed out that in 2009, mobile WiMAX chipset shipments in 2008 to 1.3 million from increased to 5 million. However, even though mobile WiMAX equipment and chipset shipments in the past year, especially the surge in the fourth quarter, but the WiMAX equipment market last year, total sales of 13.6 billion dollars, 1.34 billion U.S. dollars in 2008, roughly flat.

Ferah that, in general, the situation is mixed. Compared with mobile WiMAX equipment, WiMAX base stations in 2009, a greater impact by the economic downturn, so its shipments declined, while WiMAX equipment shipments in 2008 compared with an increase of 147%, so that good results are also WiMAX users to add last year's volume of 3.5 million inseparable.

According to statistics, in 2009, an indoor modem, the WiMAX equipment shipments accounted for 48% of shipments, of which, U disk and PC card also accounted for 43%. In addition, the market leader in mobile WiMAX chip supplier Beceem, Sequans, GCT Semiconductor three companies in 2009, swept mobile WiMAX chipset market share of nearly 90%.

Maravedis senior analyst Pascal ? Detroit (PascalDeriot) said that, there are now more and more manufacturers to participate in the LTE baseband chipsets to market, but early LTE chipset suppliers may not be able to 3G/4G dual - Die chipset market, a long-term winner. Maravedis Company believes that, LTE modem itself is not the LTE market, the world's most complex side. On the LTE chipset suppliers, interoperability, seamless switching, network infrastructure expertise and the management of different bandwidth is perhaps the most challenging obstacles.

Maravedis noted in its report, WiMAX and LTE in 4G technology based on the integration of service capabilities. And now the 3G operators can not be the fastest in early 2012, prior to mass deployment of LTE.