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Beijing-based IT market researchers today are calling for China’s broadcasting mobile TV market to grow at a staggering rate of 226 percent over the next four years.

 

The communist nation’s total mobile phone output reached 554 million units last year, according to CCID Consulting – with 58 percent of those destined for export.

 

“China’s global mobile phone manufacturing base is quite steady,” firm officials say. “Nokia, Motorola, Samsung (News - Alert) and Sony Ericsson have transferred their capacities to China. Because of this, the export volume of China’s mobile phone will increase 26.2 percent. Meanwhile, China’s domestic mobile phone enterprises’ capacity increases are evident, especially ZTE, Huawei (News - Alert) and K-Touch.”

 

A key to supporting the projected growth is the production of mobile phone chips in China, according to the firm, especially as the devices increase in their range of uses and storage space.

 

“Mobile phones’ baseband chip is the core of mobile phones’ hardware, the integration of its components will directly affect the change of mobile phone platform’s structure,” according to the firm. “Mobile phone baseband chip market can be divided into seven types, with DBB+ABB enjoying a larger market share.”

 

Excluding smart phones, the more sophisticated requirements for mobile phones lead to higher capacity requirements for chips, CCID officials say. A baseband chip improves integration, supporting some kinds of communications standards, and also provides multimedia functions.

 

Ultimately, the firm finds, domestic chip manufacturers in China must be strengthened.

 

“As for brand structure, mobile phone platform chip manufacturers have high positions such as TI, Qualcomm (News - Alert), Infineon, NXP and MTK,” according to the firm. “Besides, storage manufacturers such as Samsung, Intel and Spansion, and manufacturers with abundant product lines such as ST and RFMD (News - Alert) also have important positions in the market. As for development ability, 3G chip manufacturers and application processor manufacturers have strong development abilities. Next few years are the rapid development period of 3G market. Because of its advantage in 3G field, Qualcomm becomes the enterprise with best development ability in domestic mobile phone chip application market.”