Mobile chip industry competition should be tight

December 24 news, with the domestic FDDLTE network deployment accelerated, to promote the LTE industry chain in the mobile chip mature and development. Data from the SA show that in the first quarter of 2014, LTE baseband chip shipments are close to 100 million, accounting for 18% of total baseband chip shipments. Behind this, the hidden is different brands of mobile terminals and chips between the fierce competition and contest.

LTE global fast business chip industry to accelerate competition
With the rapid development of the global mobile Internet and LTE industry, the mobile communications market is full of opportunities and challenges. According to GSA, as of June 2014, 107 countries have deployed 300 LTE commercial networks. As of the first quarter of 2014, the number of LTE subscribers increased to 245 million, compared with the same period in 2013, an increase of 150 million, annual growth rate of nearly 180%.

LTE network deployment accelerated the LTE industry chain to promote the maturity and development of mobile chips, data from SA shows that in the first quarter of 2014, LTE baseband chip shipments are close to 100 million, accounting for baseband chip total shipments of 18 %.

In this context, China's mobile communications chip and the terminal industry, faced with a development opportunity not to be missed. From the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Research Institute data show that from January to July 2014, China's smart phone market shipments will be close to 230 million, the market share has reached 87.4%, mobile terminals have been fully into the smart era; and 4G mobile phone Shipments, over the same period reached 55.81 million.

Faced with such a gorgeous data, the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Institute pointed out that in these exciting data behind the mobile terminal market is fierce competition. And "as the mobile terminal core mobile chip industry, also face opportunities, competition and contest."

"4G era, the mobile chip multi-mode multi-frequency of the road to become inevitable," the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Research Institute, a number of researchers said, "With the advent of the 4G era, the field of mobile communications more diversified, spectrum resources More dispersed, making mobile users to provide communication capabilities of the terminal chip, more and more attention to multi-mode multi-frequency capability.

According to reports, the current number of major international terminal chip manufacturers have supported 5 models or even 6-mode capability; some of the leading domestic enterprises have also been equipped with 5-chip chip supply capacity, other domestic chip manufacturers are also vigorously into the multi-mode chip research and development, Improve the multi-mode capability as soon as possible.

Domestic mobile chip industry should keep up with FDDLTE to support a variety of formats

It is undeniable that the issuance of China's TD-LTE licenses has significantly improved the international influence of TD-LTE. However, "TD-LTE development scale growth rate is significant, but compared to LTEFDD in the global large-scale deployment and industrialization development, there is still a significant gap."
Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Research Institute engineers Song Lina, Chen Xi, Liang Zhanghua, Li Wenyu that China's mobile chips and terminal industries, focusing on research and development of TD-LTE technology at the same time, should also focus on integration with LTEFDD, followed LTEFDD technology trends, Support a variety of formats to be recognized by a wider range of international markets.

They believe that the development of China's mobile chip industry, we must first seize the tide of LTE and intelligent terminals in the chip design to achieve high-end breakthrough, focusing on key technology research and development at this stage, to maximize their own major technical accumulation For the next round of technological development to accumulate energy. And the target is not yet fully clear hot technology, should also actively participate in the discussion, invest a limited force, pay close attention to global market dynamics.

Statistics from the GSA show that as of March 2014, the number of TD-LTE networks in the world was 32, the number of TD-LTE subscribers reached 11 million, an increase of 3.8 million compared with the previous year's 7.2 million, 1563 LTE terminals, there are 387 TD-LTE terminals, compared to the beginning of the year increased by nearly 30%.