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WiMAX: Wireless Super-Chips
In-Stat/MDR, Nov 2005, Pages: 53
WiMAX has tremendous potential to offer a global standardized broadband wireless platform. However, the market will face several hurdles in the near term, some of which include a solid migration path to mobile WiMAX (802.16e) from fixed WiMAX (WiMAX-2004), competition from ever-evolving 3G and Wi-Fi technologies, and commitment from service providers to building out WiMAX networks. This report includes two forecast scenarios, one conservative and one aggressive. WiMAX chipset shipments and revenues are broken down into the following equipment segments: CPE (modems and gateways), Point-to-Multipoint Base Stations, Point-to-Point Base Stations, Clients (external and embedded), and Mobile Handsets. The report includes WiMAX vendor profiles, with background information on providers of PHY and MAC solutions, and radio front-end providers. WiBro (basically a service offered in South Korea that is based on mobile WiMAX) is also covered, with the overall WiMAX forecast numbers including any WiBro chipsets.
This report found the following:
- Despite tremendous hype around WiMAX, the WiMAX chipset market has a relatively small number of players, as the market is quite nascent.
- There has been much innovation in WiMAX chipsets this year. Heavyweights Intel and Fujitsu released WiMAX PHY and MAC System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions this year, along with start-ups Sequans and Wavesat. Signal processing specialist, picoChip, powered the market for macro base stations chipsets, with its software reference designs.
- Intel, perhaps WiMAX's biggest cheerleader, has the power to drive mobile WiMAX into becoming a standard embedded feature within mobile PCs, as Intel did with Wi-Fi in its Centrino mobile platform.
The report, WiMAX: Wireless Super-Chips includes a five-year forecast of the worldwide WiMAX chipset market, broken out by equipment type. It includes as 'WiMAX' those chipsets that adhere to Fixed WiMAX (802.16-2004), Mobile WiMAX (802.16e), and WiBro (South Korea's mobile broadband service based on Mobile WiMAX). Also included are those chipsets that are WiMAX-ready (and adhere to 802.16-2004) that shipped, or will ship in 2005 and 2006, although not certified by the WiMAX Forum. The report also contains analysis of WiMAX chipset technology, market drivers and challenges, and brief profiles of chipset vendors.
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