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GPS Chips in Mobile Devices

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: October 2007
Product Code: R97-2993
Description
In-Stat expects the GPS chipset market to be driven by integration into mobile devices, including personal navigation devices (PNDs), cellular handsets, mobile PCs, and a variety of portable CE devices. The most promising portable CE categories include ultra mobile devices (UMDs), handheld games, portable media players, and digital cameras. Although there are external GPS receivers available for mobile PCs, PDAs, smartphones, digital cameras, handheld games, and other portable CE devices, volumes of these have been limited, and integration of GPS will allow for more widespread use of GPS and will spur much greater GPS chipset shipment volumes.

GPS chipset shipments are expected to grow from 110 million in 2006, to 725 million in 2011. GPS chipset revenues are expected to grow from $520 million in 2006, to more than $1.3 billion in 2011, with the extremely high volumes offsetting the very rapid chipset price erosion. Volume uptake of cellular handsets will drive the significant majority of this growth. On the cellular handset side, better chipset architecture, combined with greater operator support of location-based services, will help to drive GPS growth in this market.

Qualcomm currently dominates the cellular handset market with its "integrated" GPS solution, while SiRF dominates the personal navigation device space. TI and Broadcom, with their cellular chipset and in-house GPS solutions, promise to be solid competitors in the cellular handset market.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary

Introduction

GPS Overview

What Is GPS?

How Does GPS Work?

GPS Accuracy
A-GPS
Control Plane and User Plane A-GPS
Offline A-GPS

Other Satellite Navigation Systems

The EU’s Galileo

Russia’s GLONASS

Japan’s QZSS

China’s Beidou

Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System

Overview of Basic GPS Chipset Architecture

Portable Navigation Devices (PNDs)

GPS in Cellular Handsets

GPS Chips in Portable CE Devices

Ultra Mobile Devices

Handheld Games

Portable Media Players (PMPs)

Digital Cameras

PDAs

GPS Chips in Mobile PCs

Total Integrated GPS in Mobile Devices

Vendor Profiles

Broadcom (Global Locate)

CellGuide

CSR

eRide

GloNav

Infineon

Intel

MediaTek

NemeriX

NXP

Qualcomm

RFMD

SiGe Semiconductor

SiRF

SkyTraq

STMicroelectronics

TI

u-blox

u-Nav

Methodology

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List of Tables

Table 1. Worldwide PND Shipment Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 2. Worldwide PND GPS Chipset Unit and Revenue Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 3. Worldwide GPS-Enabled Cellular Handset Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 4. Worldwide Cellular Handset GPS Chipset Shipments and Revenues Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 5. Worldwide GPS-Enabled Portable CE Device Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 6. Portable CE GPS Chipset Shipments and Revenues Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 7. Worldwide GPS-Enabled Mobile PC Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 8. Worldwide Mobile PC GPS Chipset Shipments and Revenues Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 9. Worldwide Total Mobile Devices with Integrated GPS Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 10. Worldwide GPS Chipset Shipments for Integration in Mobile Devices Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

Table 11. Worldwide GPS Revenues for Integration in Mobile Devices Forecast 2005-2011 (Units in Thousands)

List of Figures

Figure 1. Mobile Devices with Integrated GPS (Units in Thousands)

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