July 12, 2007
In-Stat Research Reveals Room for Growth in MPEG Video IC Market
By Calvin Azuri, TMCnet Contributor
The MPEG video IC market has plenty of room for growth, with video capture and playback now appearing in previously untapped markets, reports In-Stat (News - Alert).
Their research, "MPEG Video ICs: H.264 in the Limelight", analyzes the worldwide market for MPEG Video chips and offers forecasts for unit sales, revenue and average selling prices on MPEG ICs by type through 2011. It also incorporates unit and revenue market share for X MPEG IC markets.
"Unit shipments for MPEG-2/4 ASP encoder and decoder ICs will grow slowly if at all in the future as H.264 encoder and decoder ICs experience much higher growth rates," Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst, was quoted as saying. "Revenue in the MPEG-2/4 ASP encoder and decoder IC markets will decline, as there is enormous price pressure in these markets and a lot of competitors."
MPEG IC unit shipments will grow from 649 million in 2006 to 1.6 billion in 2011, the high-tech market research firm stated. MPEG video ICs are utilized in the compression
and decompression of video streams in many consumer devices from small mobile handsets to large digital TV sets.
Their research, "MPEG Video ICs: H.264 in the Limelight", analyzes the worldwide market for MPEG Video chips and offers forecasts for unit sales, revenue and average selling prices on MPEG ICs by type through 2011. It also incorporates unit and revenue market share for X MPEG IC markets.
"Unit shipments for MPEG-2/4 ASP encoder and decoder ICs will grow slowly if at all in the future as H.264 encoder and decoder ICs experience much higher growth rates," Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst, was quoted as saying. "Revenue in the MPEG-2/4 ASP encoder and decoder IC markets will decline, as there is enormous price pressure in these markets and a lot of competitors."
MPEG IC unit shipments will grow from 649 million in 2006 to 1.6 billion in 2011, the high-tech market research firm stated. MPEG video ICs are utilized in the compression
and decompression of video streams in many consumer devices from small mobile handsets to large digital TV sets. Recent research by In-Stat also found the following:
-The advent of H.264 has led to the rise to startups like Ambarella and Horizon Semiconductor, while 2006 saw the first mobile MPEG-4 IC shipments from Rockchip, MtekVision, and Chipnuts.
-MediaTek was again the top supplier in 2006 of MPEG-2 DVD decoder ICs, LSI Logic the top supplier of MPEG-2 encoder ICs, and STMicroelectronics (News - Alert) was the top supplier of MPEG-2 MP@ML set top box decoder ICs and H.264 decoder ICs.
-The advent of H.264 has led to the rise to startups like Ambarella and Horizon Semiconductor, while 2006 saw the first mobile MPEG-4 IC shipments from Rockchip, MtekVision, and Chipnuts.
-MediaTek was again the top supplier in 2006 of MPEG-2 DVD decoder ICs, LSI Logic the top supplier of MPEG-2 encoder ICs, and STMicroelectronics (News - Alert) was the top supplier of MPEG-2 MP@ML set top box decoder ICs and H.264 decoder ICs.
Calvin Azuri is a contributing writer for TMCnet
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