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Article: Broadcom Tops New ABI Research GPS IC Vendor Matrix Ranking.
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- Telecommunications Weekly
- Article date:
- March 25, 2009
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Broadcom has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research.
SiRF and Texas Instruments claimed the second and third spots in the company's most recent evaluation of worldwide GPS chip vendors.
"Recent consolidation within the GPS chipset sector has led to intensified competition among the remaining players and increased collaboration between semiconductor suppliers and the firmware and complementary radio technology providers (primarily Wi-Fi and Bluetooth)," says ABI Research senior analyst George Perros. "Sector participants are attempting to differentiate their product offerings and re-tool their value propositions, ...