Breakdown of the acquisition of GPS semiconductor companies in 2007 related to the company situation

Global Positioning System (GPS) is a 2007 one of the strongest 3C products, particularly chip supplier in the emerging global merger and TEA2025B datasheet and acquisition action, the Spring practice of plumbing ducks seem to have implicit allusion customers in 2008 GPS optimistic about demand growth in the extent and TEA2025B price and force had to advance hands-on layout of the chip maker, has started to take off so as not to miss this piece of the market pie.

NXP (NXP) today announced the first 21 to 8,500 million U.S. dollars acquisition of GloNav this focus on single-chip solutions for GPS IC design company, and TEA2025B suppliers and as the case may be an additional 2,500 million in cash premium. This is the first five acquisitions in 2007 related to software and GPS solutions for the semiconductor chip industry, from the beginning of the CSR to Broadcom, SIRF and Atheros, and, most recently NXP, foreign chip makers to step up the pace of action, in fact, revealed in 2008 has been to understand GPS market will be more heat.

Taiwan-based IC design industry, said, setting aside the global GPS chip market vendors talk about new entrants in 2007, even the worlds leading manufacturers SIRF GPS acquisition of all the sea Centrality, the global GPS chip market demand can be seen heat, has been PND and GPS terminal Hot driven related goods, plus lower PND, car manufacturers, consumer electronics industry, as well as mobile phone brands, operators have different considerations for GPS applications, GPS chip broke out in 2008 growth has been as expected.

3C products as customer applications for the GPS function of different considerations, some people just want to locate information, there is the added value you want to communicate with each other for the GPS chip demand also appeared multiple voices, not only to the 2008 global GPS chip market demand growth 50% or more, high, medium and low-end GPS chip features approach, but also to domestic and foreign chip suppliers have been expanding their own GPS chip solutions to meet customer requirements.

GPS chip suppliers optimistic that Nokia (Nokia) acquisition Navateq generous, the 2008 is definitely the first year of the development of GPS mobile phones, and GPS functionality in the application run into a demand for more than 10 million units in the global handset market , the face of GPS chip only 1,000 applications from the original 1 million to 2,000 million PND market, to the mobile phone market, the global GPS chip explosion in demand in the next few years the number of 10 times, in fact, nothing to fuss about.

Chip suppliers pointed out that domestic and foreign chip suppliers the greatest challenge to be "timely" and therefore, foreign chip suppliers in 2007 to start stepping up mergers and acquisitions numerous GPS related company actions, grow their own product line of GPS chip As for Taiwan, MediaTek and Morningstar plant is to accelerate development of next-generation GPS chip moves to fighting over the market pie.

Plumbing ducks in the Spring practice, in 2007 domestic and foreign suppliers keen to acquire GPS chip chip-related hardware and software company moves, in fact reveals GPS-related applications in 2008 will appear explosive growth of various kinds 3C products like 2008 years the most advertised features, will pull on the relationship with the GPS application, and this prospect of the global GPS market, so domestic and foreign supplier of GPS chips have been dreaming of space and go all out.