Over the next few years, the GPS chipset market will be driven by integration into mobile devices, including personal navigation devices, cellular handsets, mobile PCs, and a variety of portable consumer electronics (CE) devices, reports In-Stat. The most promising portable CE categories include ultra mobile devices (UMDs), handheld games, portable media players, and digital cameras, the high-tech market research firm says.
Sales of mobile devices with integrated GPS are expected to grow from 180 million units in 2007 to 720 million units in 2011. The cellular handset market, especially the WCDMA space, will be a major battleground for GPS chipset vendors.
GPS chipset revenues are expected to grow from $520 million in 2006, to more than $1.3 billion in 2011, with the extremely high volumes offsetting the very rapid chipset price erosion.
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