Abstract
On August 8, 2007, leading international mobile phone vendor Nokia announced
that it was adjusting its long-standing IC development model based on in-house
R&D to make greater use of technology licensing and multi-sourcing. This
indicates a concrete manifestation of a change in Nokia' s strategy that has
been forced on the company by changes in the mobile phone industry
environment. Nokia has been collaborating with Texas Instruments for some
years now; it has now also begun to adopt IC solutions supplied by STM,
Broadcom, and Infineon. A few days after Nokia' s announcement, on August 20,
Infineon revealed that it was acquiring LSI' s mobile products division for 330
million Euros. These two announcements have sent shockwaves through the mobile
phone IC market. This report will examine the strategic thinking behind
Nokia' s change in strategy, and will consider how the new strategy will affect
the competitive balance in the global mobile phone IC industry.
Table of Contents
List of Topics
Overview of Nokia' s IC solution development; Nokia' s mobile phone IC and
baseband suppliers; Nokia' s selection of new IC solution vendors and its
implication for the worldwide mobile phone IC suppliers; current development
and future trends for the worldwide mobile phone IC industry
- Overview of Nokia' s Chip Strategy Development
- Nokia' s New Chipset Strategy
- In-house IC Development as Nokia' s Core Competency
- Moving Towards Software and Value-added Services
- Meeting the Needs of Individual Technologies and Product Lines
- Current State of the Global Mobile Phone IC Industry
- Mobile Phone Brands Decreasing Adoption of Own-developed Chipsets
- A Wave of Mergers Causing the Concentration Ratio to Rise
- MIC Perspective
Adcore-Tech, Agere System, Analog Device Incorporation, BenQ-Siemens,
Broadcom, Ericsson Mobile Platforms, Freescale, Gate5, Infineon, Intel,
Intellisync, KDDI, LG, Loudeye, LSI, Marvel, Matsushita, Mediatek, Motorola,
NEC, Nokia, NXP, Philips, Qualcomm, Renesas, RFMD, Samsung, Siemens, Silicon
Labs, Skyworks, Sony Ericsson, Spreadtrum, STMicroelectornics, Texas
Instruments, Twango
List of Tables
- Table 1 Nokia' s Main IC Suppliers in 2006
- Table 2 Nokia' s Potential Future Mobile Phone IC Suppliers
- Table 3 The Baseband IC Suppliers of the Top Five Global Mobile Phone
Brands in 2006
- Table 4 Global Mobile Phone IC Suppliers' Mergers and Acquisitions during
2006 and 2007
List of Figures
- Figure 1 Global Mobile Phone Baseband IC Market Share by Supplier in 2006
- Figure 2 Global Mobile Phone IC Suppliers' Chip Technology and Market
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