Bo Tong to produce support for all telecom operators in China Mobile phone chips

"Global technology reporter Chen," according to the US Wall Street Journal March 21, the US chip maker Bo Tong hopes to increase sales in China by producing chips to support more types of handsets, including handsets running on the network of China Mobile, the world's largest telecoms operator. The strategy is to keep up the demand for Low-cost smartphones running on China Mobile's third generation (3G) network. The strategy comes at a time when China is planning to spend huge sums to build its own capacity to reduce its reliance on imported chips. However, Bo said it would not have a significant impact on the company's growth prospects in China. While the technology used by China Mobile's network is rarely used outside of the country, more than 760 million of its users support the technology with the demand for handsets and chips. ' The company will start producing chips that support more types of handsets by the middle of this year, so that its chips will be compatible with all of China's telecoms operators, ' said McGregor chief executive McGregor, in an interview. Bo-Tong's current production of chips can only be compatible with the mobile phone operating in China Unicom's network. China is the world's largest smartphone market, with more than 500 million smartphone users now. While smartphone demand has weakened in recent quarters, demand is "still good", McGregor said. He added that sales of chips in the Chinese market still face "fairly intense" competition. A large part of the global electronics supply chain is also in China. In 2012, China consumed more than 101.6 billion dollars in semiconductors, according to a PwC report. The gap prompted repeated calls by Chinese officials to increase domestic semiconductor production, raising fears that Beijing might take steps to marginalize Western rivals in support of its industry.