Baseband Forecast (2009-2020): Baseband Market Competition Heats Up with LTE Growth

The global cellular baseband processor market will continue to grow through 2020 to an estimated $29 billion driven mainly by the growth of LTE. Qualcomm will come under increasing competition from MediaTek, Samsung, Intel, suppliers from mainland China, and a host of specialist suppliers, leading to a challenging market environment and probably more consolidation among suppliers. This report contains SA's most recent forecast of cellular baseband unit shipments, market revenue and ASPs for six major air interfaces through 2020. The forecast considers all expected cellular terminal shipments, not just handsets, and includes extrapolations for baseband vendor share.

This report contains:

Global Baseband Shipment Forecast in Unit terms

Global Baseband Shipment Forecast in Revenue terms

Global Baseband ASP Forecast

Shipment data covers all product types:

Legitimate handsets

Grey market handsets, cellular white label

Other non-handsets (eg USB dongles, M2M, tablets, …)

Tabs:

1 Title Page. Includes summary paragraph

2 Contents. This page

3 Keypoints. A summary of the highlights of the latest data, including analysis of each vendors' activities

4 Market (revenue) and Unit forecast

5 UE Production. Estimated historical and predicted total UE production, by year

6 Share Projections (in unit terms)

7 Pivot Chart. A user-adjustable chart built on top of the entire data set

8 Methodology. A simplified description of the approach taken to build our market size and share model.

9 Contacts. Details for the analysts involved in this analysis

10 Raw Data. A flat file containing all of the data shown in the individual tables.