Wireless and broadband: Opportunities for chipmakers

摘要

Communications applications once constituted the ugly brother of the PC world in terms of its relationship to the growth of the semiconductor market. These systems were generated in relatively low volume and represented minimal profit opportunity/device. After all, the semiconductor dollar content/PC can easily exceed $500/device, and unit shipments, which have been in the tens of millions of units/year, have now surpassed the one hundred million units/year mark.