While FE and GE semiconductor players are established, opportunities for generating 10GbE revenue are still up for grabs, IDC reveals

摘要

The lion s share of the worldwide Ethernet market revenue continues to be generated by vendors well established in the Fast Ethernet (FE) and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) semiconductor segments, including Broadcom, Marvell, Realtek, and Intel. However, IDC observed that the marketplace has begun to adopt 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and that both startups and well-known public vendors earned notable 10GbE revenues in 2007. The worldwide Ethernet semiconductor market remained flat in 2007 compared to 2006, but 10GE sales are clearly ramping, said Aileen Arcilla, senior analyst for Semiconductors at IDC. What is interesting to note is the number of startups that are currently playing in this space, with some actually surpassing sales of 10GE chips compared with established companies. However, since we are still in the early adoption phase, it remains to be seen who will clearly be the 10GE semiconductor market leader.