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Communications Semiconductor Market Share 2011

Published May 2012

Authors: Joseph Byrne, Bob Wheeler, Jag Bolaria, Kevin Krewell and J. Scott Gardner

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"Communications Semiconductor Market Share 2011" provides all-new market share data for 20 categories of communications semiconductors, including Ethernet products, broadband interface chips, and home-networking chips. It additionally contains data for FPGAs, embedded processors, and CPU IP.

The report provides the detailed market information needed to sort out the dynamics of this market. With this report, chip vendors, investors, and OEMs will readily see which companies are the leading suppliers in a given product market, how these companies' standings have changed over the past year, how big the mature product markets are, and how fast the emerging categories are growing.

Semiconductor product categories covered in the report include network processors, 10 Gigabit Ethernet components, DSL and PON transceivers, and transport ICs, including OTN. The report also includes market share for PCI interconnect chips and for high-end embedded microprocessors. Among the scores of companies covered are established suppliers-such as Broadcom, Freescale, Lantiq, LSI, PMC-Sierra, and Realtek-and young companies such as EZchip and Entropic.

The report includes a brief text summary providing analysis of the data and a set of market share tables for more than 20 product categories. Companies purchasing a corporate license also receive the tables in Microsoft Excel form.

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This report is written for:

  • Product managers and executives seeking to assess the performance of their product lines over the past year or to identify areas in which to invest or divest.
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  • Public-relations professionals seeking to quantify their client's success.

What's New in this Edition

  • Includes 10GbE controller revenue market share
  • To provide a more forward-looking view on FPGA share, we have added a breakdown focusing on FPGAs fabricated in 60nm and beyond.



List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Authors
About the Publisher
Executive Summary
1 Introduction
Product Categorization
Wireline Communications
Mobile and Wireless Communications
General-Purpose Use
Report Organization
2 Overview
3 Processors
Network Processors
Network-Security Accelerators
Embedded Processors
Licensable CPU Cores
4 Ethernet
All Ethernet ICs
10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch Chips
10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, iSCSI HBAs, and Controller ICs
Gigabit Ethernet Switch ICs and Multiport PHYs
Gigabit Ethernet Controller ICs and Single-Port PHYs
Fast Ethernet Switch, PHY, and NIC/LOM ICs
5 Broadband
DSL Interface ICs
Cable-Modem ICs
PON
6 Other Networking ASSPs
PCI, RapidIO, HyperTransport Bridges, and Switch ICs
Home-Networking and EoC Ics
Optical-Transport ICs
T/E Carrier ICs
Network Search Engines
7 FPGAs
8 Conclusions
9 Methodology and Accounting
Methodology
Accounting Rules
10 Revisions
New Companies
Revised Estimates
Figure 1-1. Taxonomy of wired-communications ASSPs.
Figure 2-1. Worldwide revenue market share of the top 10 vendors of wired-communications ASSPs.
Figure 2-2. Worldwide revenue for wired-communications ASSPs by category.
Figure 2-3. Worldwide revenue for ASSPs, embedded processors, and FPGAs for communications.
Figure 3-1. Worldwide revenue market share of the top seven vendors of network processors.
Figure 3-2. Worldwide revenue market share of the top 10 vendors of embedded microprocessors.
Figure 3-3. Worldwide revenue market share of the top three vendors of embedded multicore processors.
Figure 3-4. Worldwide revenue market share of the top eight vendors of embedded processors for use in communications systems.
Figure 3-5. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of embedded processors for use in storage systems.
Figure 3-6. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of embedded processors for other use.
Figure 3-7. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of CPU-IP cores.
Figure 3-8. Worldwide unit-shipment market share of the top five vendors of CPU-IP cores.
Figure 4-1. Worldwide revenue market share of the top four vendors of all Ethernet ICs.
Figure 4-2. Worldwide revenue market share of the top three vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch chips.
Figure 4-3. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
Figure 4-4. Worldwide unit-shipment market share of the top five vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
Figure 4-5. Worldwide revenue market share of the top three vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips.
Figure 4-6. Worldwide unit-shipment market share of the top three vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips.
Figure 4-7. Worldwide revenue market share of the top four vendors of Gigabit Ethernet switch ICs and multiport PHYs.
Figure 4-8. Worldwide revenue market share of the top four vendors of GbE controller ICs and single-port PHYs.
Figure 4-9. Worldwide revenue market share of the top four vendors of Fast Ethernet switch, PHY, and NIC/LOM ICs.
Figure 5-1. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of DSL interface ICs.
Figure 5-2. Worldwide revenue market share of the top three vendors of DSL interface ICs for aggregation.
Figure 5-3. Worldwide revenue market share of the top four vendors of DSL interface ICs for CPE.
Figure 5-4. Worldwide revenue market share of the top two vendors of cable-modem ICs.
Figure 5-5. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of PON interface ICs.
Figure 6-1. Worldwide revenue market share of the top three vendors of PCI and RapidIO bridges and switches.
Figure 6-2. Worldwide revenue market share of the top four vendors of home-networking and access ASSPs.
Figure 6-3. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of optical-transport ICs.
Figure 6-4. Worldwide revenue market share of the top three vendors of OTN framers/mappers.
Figure 6-5. Worldwide revenue market share of the top two vendors of network search engines.
Figure 7-1. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of FPGAs.
Figure 7-2. Worldwide revenue market share of the top five vendors of FPGAs for use in communications systems.
Figure 7-3. Worldwide revenue market share of the top two vendors of FPGAs in 65nm and finer processes.
Table 2-1. Worldwide revenue of the top 25 vendors of wired-communications ASSPs.
Table 2-2. Worldwide revenue for wired-communications ASSPs by category.
Table 2-3. Worldwide revenue for ASSPs, embedded processors, and FPGAs for communications.
Table 3-1. Worldwide revenue of the top seven vendors of network processors.
Table 3-2. Worldwide revenue of the top 10 vendors of embedded micro-processors.
Table 3-3. Worldwide revenue of the top three vendors of embedded multicore processors.
Table 3-4. Worldwide revenue of the top eight vendors of embedded processors for use in communications systems.
Table 3-5. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of embedded processors for use in storage systems.
Table 3-6. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of embedded processors for other use.
Table 3-7. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of CPU-IP cores.
Table 3-8. Worldwide unit shipments of the top five vendors of CPU-IP cores.
Table 4-1. Worldwide revenue of the top four vendors of all Ethernet ICs.
Table 4-2. Worldwide revenue of the top three vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch chips.
Table 4-3. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
Table 4-4. Worldwide unit shipments of the top five vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
Table 4-5. Worldwide revenue of the top three vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips.
Table 4-6. Worldwide unit shipments of the top three vendors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips.
Table 4-7. Worldwide revenue of the top four vendors of Gigabit Ethernet switch ICs and multiport PHYs.
Table 4-8. Worldwide revenue of the top four vendors of GbE controller ICs and single-port PHYs.
Table 4-9. Worldwide revenue of the top four vendors of Fast Ethernet switch, PHY, and NIC/LOM ICs.
Table 5-1. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of DSL interface ICs.
Table 5-2. Worldwide revenue of the top three vendors of DSL interface ICs for aggregation.
Table 5-3. Worldwide revenue of the top four vendors of DSL interface ICs for CPE.
Table 5-4. Worldwide revenue of the top two vendors of cable-modem ICs.
Table 5-5. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of PON interface ICs.
Table 6-1. Worldwide revenue of the top three vendors of PCI and RapidIO bridges and switches.
Table 6-2. Worldwide revenue of the top four vendors of home-networking and access ASSPs.
Table 6-3. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of optical-transport ICs.
Table 6-4. Worldwide revenue of the top three vendors of OTN framers and mappers.
Table 6-5. Worldwide revenue of top two vendors of network search engines.
Table 7-1. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of FPGAs.
Table 7-2. Worldwide revenue of the top five vendors of FPGAs for use in communications systems.
Table 7-3. Worldwide revenue of the top two vendors of FPGAs in 60nm-40nm processes.

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