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Integrated Platforms and Reference Designs for Smartphones

Integrated platforms are growing. ABI Research forecasts that the growth in smartphone application processors will come from integrated platforms that include the wireless connectivity baseband that supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and more. Integrated platforms without the wireless connectivity baseband and stand-alone application processors will still exist for various reasons that are covered in this analysis. Reference designs help mitigate a complete switch to integrated platforms, but the need to customize higher-end devices for product differentiation is an even more important factor that will keep stand-alone application processors from disappearing completely. These two trends – integration and reference designs – are absolutely critical for silicon vendors to compete in the smartphone space.

Table of Contents

  • 1. INTEGRATED PLATFORMS
    • 1.1. What Integrated Platforms Are
    • 1.2. Standalone Components versus Two Levels of Integrated Platforms
    • 1.3. Pros and Cons of Standalone and Integrated Platforms
      • 1.3.1. Standalone Component Pros:
      • 1.3.2. Standalone Component Cons:
      • 1.3.3. Integrated Platform Pros:
      • 1.3.4. Integrated Platform Cons:
  • 2. REFERENCE DESIGNS
    • 2.1. What a Reference Design Is
    • 2.2. Importance of Reference Designs
    • 2.3. The Reference Design Market in Numbers
  • 3. APPLICATION PROCESSOR REVENUE AND COMPARISON TO TOTAL MAJOR COMPONENT REVENUE
  • 4. APPLICATION PROCESSOR VENDORS
    • 4.1. Key Captive Silicon Vendors (Not Selling into the Market)
      • 4.1.1. Apple
      • 4.1.2. HiSilicon (Huawei)
      • 4.1.3. Samsung Electronics
    • 4.2. Integrated Platform Vendors
      • 4.2.1. Broadcom Corporation
      • 4.2.2. Intel Corporation
      • 4.2.3. Marvell Semiconductor
      • 4.2.4. MediaTek
      • 4.2.5. NVIDIA
      • 4.2.6. Qualcomm

Charts

  1. Smartphone Application Processor Shipments by Integration Level (Bar Chart), World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  2. Smartphone Application Processor Shipments by Integration Level (Line Chart), World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  3. Smartphone Share by Wholesale Price Band, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  4. Smartphone Shipments Based on Reference Designs versus Not, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  5. Smartphone Share Based on Reference Designs versus Not, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  6. Smartphone Shipments Based on Reference Designs versus Not: Excluding Apple and Samsung, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  7. Smartphone Share Based on Reference Designs versus Not: Excluding Apple and Samsung, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  8. Smartphone Application Processor Revenue, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  9. Smartphone Application Processor Revenue by Integration Level, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  10. Smartphone Major Component Revenue by Component Type, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  11. Smartphone Major Component Shipments by Component Type, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
  12. Comparison of Smartphone Application Processor Revenue to Revenue for All Major Smartphone Components, World Market, Forecast: 2012 to 2018
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Research Information

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  • Publish Date 4Q 2013
  • Research Type Technology Analysis Report
  • Code AN-1441
  • Pages 17
  • Charts 12
  • File Format PDF

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