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22nd November - VoIP ICs continue to gain traction as VoIP
functionality is integrated into Customer Premise Equipment
(CPE) including modems, routers and residential gateways,
reports In-Stat. The overall market for VoIP ICs will grow
from $208.7 million in 2004 to $1.3 billion in 2009, the high-tech
market research firm says. Over the next few years, wireless
handsets will become another key market for VoIP ICs.
By the end of the forecast period, VoIP functionality will
be integrated into a high percentage of new wireless handsets.
From a revenue perspective, the IP Phone sub-segment (wireless
and wireline combined) represents the smallest revenue market
today, but will be the largest one by 2009. This reversal
will occur due to high growth in business-oriented IP PBX/hosted
PBX phones and dual-mode wireless handsets.
A recent report by In-Stat found the following:
- VoIP IC revenue on the infrastructure side is growing
more slowly than other segments, given extreme price pressure
that begins at the service provider level and filters down
through VoIP equipment providers to their silicon providers.
- Texas Instruments’ initial dominance of the VoIP
IC market is declining even as TI shipments continue to
grow. As the market expands, new fabless players are gaining
a stronger foothold.
- VoIP equipment providers look to VoIP IC companies to
assist in developing the best quality, most cost effective,
and power-efficient products. Thus, an understanding of
the future market for VoIP ICs must begin by examining various
end-user markets.
This Market Alert is drawn from the In-Stat report, "VoIP
ICs—Building a Foundation for the Future", which
covers the global market for Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) Integrated Circuits (ICs). It includes VoIP IC forecasts
for port and unit shipments and revenue by region for each
market segment—phone, CPE, and infrastructure. It also
includes vendor market shares for each of these segments as
well as the total VoIP IC market. Market analysis includes
profiles of 11 major vendors.
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