Marvell Zhang Hui: Cell phone chips are hard to turn into oligarch markets

Beijing time January 10 Evening news, Marvell Greater China Business general Manager Zhang Hui today in 2013, the gap between the U.S. consumer Electronics Show, mobile phone chip market is difficult to become an oligopoly, in the future this area will be a lot of companies appear.

Marvell is an integrated chip solutions manufacturer, loaded with its chip products covering mobile phones, TV set-top boxes, smart home and so on.

Marvell Greater China business general Manager Zhang Hui

In 2013, the gap between the U.S. consumer Electronics Show, Zhang Hui to the media, the smartphone accounted for the entire mobile phone market share will reach 80%, and four core, LTE will be one of the greater business opportunities.

He thinks, because the handset chip manufacturer does the SOC chip to need very strong integration ability, in the future if only does the application processor will be difficult the industry competition.

He pointed out that the smartphone market is still in a rapid growth phase, the mobile phone chip market in the future will be difficult to appear similar to the PC chip market, in the future there will be many new companies in this area.

He also pointed out that, subject to communications patents, small mobile phone chip manufacturers have been difficult in the baseband chip field to make greater innovation.

Previously, Zhang Hui has publicly said that the future market competition will be integrated capacity and innovative ability of the comprehensive contest, the whole industry chain integration capacity and a large number of independent intellectual property rights will become Marvell's winning weapon.