Communications Semiconductor
Market Forecast 2008–2013

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Sales of semiconductors for wired-communications applications slowed dramatically at the end of 2008 but will rebound following a difficult 1Q09. The abrupt downturn in chip purchases set the stage for a faster recovery than that experienced after the 2001 downturn because of the faster burn off of accumulated inventories. Sales of Ethernet chips and other components tied to enterprise spending will bounce back, but to reduced levels until the global economy recovers. Sales of broadband ICs and other components tied to carrier capital spending will fare better. While some carriers are in a low-investment phase of their business cycles, other carriers—particularly those in emerging markets—are investing heavily. Sales of new technologies, such as PON and 10GbE, are growing quickly as the downturn hastens the demise of the legacy technologies they are replacing. Consolidation among chip vendors will enable them to reduce annual price declines, further improving the revenue outlook. Companies seeking to understand these dynamics will benefit from the perspective of the leading group of communications semiconductor analysts.

"Communications Semiconductor Market Forecast 2008–2013" provides the detailed market information needed to sort out the complexities of this market. With this report, chip vendors, investors, and OEMs will readily see how big the mature product markets are and how fast the emerging categories are growing.

Wired-communications semiconductor product categories covered in the report include network processors, 10GbE components, PON and VDSL transceivers, security accelerators, network search engines, and optical-transport ICs. Also included are forecasts for interconnect chips, CPU IP, FPGAs, and embedded microprocessors.

The report includes a brief text summary providing analysis of the data and a set of tables for more than a dozen categories of wired-communications semiconductors. The single-user license includes a brief printed document with summary analysis of the data and is packaged with a non-printing PDF that provides market-forecast tables for more than a dozen product categories. The corporate license includes the printed summary as well as a PDF that permits additional copies to be printed. For easier data reuse, the corporate-license edition is packaged with a Microsoft Excel workbook containing all of the data. A forthcoming report will provide information about semiconductors for mobile and wireless-communications applications.

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