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Qualcomm leads the cellular baseband mkt

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LONDON, UK: According to market researcher, Strategy Analytics, the global cellular baseband processor market grew 15 per cent year-on-year to be worth $15.1 billion in 2011.

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Qualcomm achieved 45 per cent market share and Intel achieved 15 per cent. In the rankings, Qualcomm and Intel were the two prominent market leaders and Intel could appear in the ranking due to the acquisition of Infineon's wireless business unit early in 2011, reports Peter Clarke of EETimes.

The top five ranking was Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek, Texas Instruments, and ST-Ericsson. Qualcomm has dominated the market in CDMA, LTE and W-CDMA segments.

LTE and TD-SCDMA are creating opportunities for baseband vendors and non-handset devices such as USB dongles, M2M, e-book readers and tablets providing a significant boost to baseband companies in 2011.

"Qualcomm continues to leverage its baseband modem expertise to ride the 3G/4G wave and captured 45 per cent revenue share in 2011 in the baseband market. Strategy Analytics believes that Qualcomm is strongly positioned to make significant share gains in the emerging LTE baseband market in 2012,” said Stuart Robinson, director of the handset components service at Strategy Analytics, in a statement.

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