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Move To Wireless High-Speed Nets Drives Base-Station Chips
June 2, 2004 (3:23 p.m. EST)
TechWeb News

Following several years of sluggish growth, the base-station semiconductor market is expected to post healthy growth through 2008, as wireless firms build out high-speed networks to deliver cellular-phone services, a market researcher said Wednesday.
Revenues are expected to reach $1.9 billion this year, growing to $2.4 billion by 2008, International Data Corp. said. In addition, the base-station chip market is expected to see more standardization and more migration to off-the-shelf chips from customized semiconductors.

Spending in base-station gear is expected to be fueled by continued adoption of 2.5G and 3G high-speed data services, coupled with demands for basic voice services in some parts of the world, IDC said. The 3G segment, in particular--which includes WCDMA, CDMA2000, and the upcoming TD-SCDMA air-interface standards--is expected to become the major driver behind chip sales, as it posts a compound annual growth rate of 28 percent by 2008.

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