IDC's Semiconductors: Consumer Devices service provides strategic and tactical analysis for chip suppliers as well as systems OEMs on key digital consumer electronics (CE) markets such as digital TV, compressed audio and portable media players, videogame consoles, set-top boxes (STBs), and DVD players and recorders. In addition, this service tracks semiconductor developments for emerging imaging, video, and audio applications. It provides information on new chip technologies, the vendors that create them, and the market forces that drive them.

This service covers the following segments of the worldwide digital consumer device semiconductor market:

• Digital TV
• Compressed audio and portable multimedia players
• Videogame consoles and handheld devices
• DVD players and recorders
• STBs
• Image processing
• CE wireless connectivity

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Global competitive issues facing chip makers in CE
• Analysis of MPEG2 and 44, H.264, MP3, DVB global broadcast standards, and other codes and formats
• DTV processors, competitive trends, and tuner mandate issues
• Embedded processors across the key CE applications
• Emerging key markets and how to enter them
• The challenge of video in portable devices
• Wireline and wireless connectivity tradeoffs in CE devices
• Emergence of CE suppliers in Asia

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. Which companies are the leading semiconductor suppliers in consumer device markets?
2. What is the market size and what are the real opportunities for semiconductor companies in consumer applications?
3. Where are the opportunities for new entrants and consolidation?
4. What are the pricing and integration trends impacting the market?
5. How will semiconductor innovation enable new classes of consumer devices?

IDC's Semiconductors: Consumer Devices service examines how the companies that supply integrated circuits (ICs) for consumer product applications are positioning themselves to compete in the consumer device semiconductor market. This service reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of leading vendors, including:

AMD, ARC, ARM, Broadcom, Conexant, Cirrus Logic, ESS Technologies, Fujitsu, IBM Microelectronics, Intel, LSI Logic, Matsushita, Mediatek, Micron, MIPS Technologies, NEC, NVIDIA, Philips, Renesas, Samsung, SanDisk, Sharp Microelectronics, Sigma Designs, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Sunplus, Tensilica, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Wolfson Microelectronics, and Zoran.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

This semiannual study examines the market for set-top box semiconductors, with splits for cable, satellite, IP, and terrestrial form factors. It provides a complete bill-of-materials (BOM) analysis, including semiconductor device count as well as cost and total revenue forecast.

This semiannual study covers the semiconductor market for game consoles, including microprocessors, graphics, ASICs, memory, and wireless and broadband technologies.

This study covers major consumer device ASIC and ASSP vendors, providing market share and competitive analysis in key consumer market segments.

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