W-CDMA handsets to drive DSP growth till 2011

Forward Concepts has revised its forecast for market annual growth for all ICs in 2007 down to 3.5 percent.

The firm's five-year DSP chip market forecast is based on the assumption of a pickup in W-CDMA/UMTS cellular handset shipments. Forward Concepts said it now believes that DSP chip market will be worth in $9 billion in 2007, $10.3 billion in 2008 and then $11.6 billion, $13.1 billion and $14.7 billion in the subsequent years. That reflects 15 percent growth in 2008 and 12 percent CAGR over the period 2006 to 2011.

- Peter Clarke
EE Times Europe