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Communications processor space to surpass others
By siliconindia
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Friday, 23 January 2009, 21:46 IST
Bangalore: Research firm IDC foresees that the communications processor space will outperform other networking silicon categories in the years ahead despite a challenging macroeconomic environment.
IDC forecasts that growth will continue for the worldwide telecom/datacom semiconductor market over the next five years. IDC attributes this growth to carriers continuing to replace legacy infrastructure to support the growing volume and varying mix of network traffic (voice, video, and data) required to meet end user demands.
The report entitled 'Worldwide Telecom/Datacom Semiconductor Vendor Share' examines application-specific semiconductors for datacom/telecom equipment markets and includes rankings for communications processors. As per the report, Freescale Semiconductor ranks one with 52 percent of the market while its closest competitor holds on at 25 percent.
Freescale established the communications processor market in 1989 by delivering the industry's first multi-protocol microprocessor, and since then has shipped more than 185 million communications processor units. The versatile devices are used in routers, switches, digital line cards, wireless LAN access/aggregation points, unified threat management (UTM) appliances, voice over IP (VoIP) equipment, customer premises equipment, SOHO and enterprise routers, as well as printer, high-end imaging and storage applications.