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 Some
of the factors that are driving the growth
include the tremendous growth of the telecom
sector and hence telecom infrastructure.
Underlying
the much awaited release of spectrum for
3G services in India, (and there are different
technologies for 3G that will be adopted
by different telcos in India), among the
existing players here, there many standards
that have been adopted, such as - GSM, CDMA,
Wi-Max, FTH. MPT, CDPT, DVB-C, DVB-H, etc.
While diversity of standards was good for
the silicon industry, the telecom industry
must have some common standards, some structure
to be able to go on, advised Yiu.
The
other major contributor from the telecom
industry that is driving the semi-conductor
industry is the cell phone. Adoption of
3G in countries such as Korea and China
and in Hong Kong (HK) has been a growth
driver in those parts of the world. In HK,
3G phones are cheaper than 2G phones because
the operators there are more willing to
give out 3G phones than 2G phones since
both share the spectrum. Value added services
and moving to 3G results in more spectrum
utility, and also better returns for the
service providers.
Yiu
said that in the case of consumer electronics,
people are no longer satisfied with their
19 inch flat panel TV; they aspire for a
70 inch TV, an LCD TV.
A
number of applications like gaming and digital
set top boxes, the boom in the consumer
electronics, and the effort to bring in
better technology or improvements in the
existing technology are drivers for the
semi-conductor industry.
Freescale,
formerly Motorola’s Semiconductor Products
Sector, with 2006 sales of $ 6.4 billion,
is a global player in the design and manufacture
of embedded semiconductors for the automotive,
consumer, industrial, networking and wireless
markets. Freescale has design, research
and development, manufacturing or sales
operations in more than 30 countries.
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