Baseband Market Share Tracker Q1 2015: Samsung LSI Takes Number Three LTE Spot

The global cellular baseband processor market grew a robust 27 percent year-on-year to reach $5.8 billion in Q1 2015. Qualcomm, MediaTek and Spreadtrum maintained their top three revenue share rankings in Q1 2015. For the first time, Samsung LSI featured in the top five baseband revenue share rankings overall and grabbed third spot in the LTE rankings thanks to the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge modem design-wins. This report tracks the cellular baseband unit shipments, ASPs and revenues of 21 baseband chip vendors across six air interface technologies on a quarterly basis, and includes provisional data up to Q2 2015.

Table of Contents

This report contains:

Global Baseband Shipments in Unit terms

Global Baseband Market Share in Unit terms

Global Baseband Shipments in Revenue terms

Global Baseband Market Share in Revenue terms

Global Baseband ASPs

Shipment data covers all product types:

Legitimate handsets

Grey market handsets

Non-handsets (eg USB dongles, M2M, tablets, …)

Tabs:

1 Title Page. Includes summary paragraph

2 Contents

3 Keypoints. A summary of the highlights of the latest data, including analysis of each vendors' activities

4 Market share tabs, giving shipment data in unit and revenue terms by technology

Total

a GSM / GPRS / EDGE

b UMTS/W-CDMA

c CDMA

d TD-SCDMA

e LTE

f iDEN/Other

5 Relationship Matrix. Tables showing the relationships among OEMs and baseband suppliers.

6a Pivot Chart. A user-adjustable chart built on top of the entire data set

6b Pivot Chart. Percent version.

6c Pivot Chart. By air interface technology.

7 Methodology. A simplified description of the approach taken to build our market size and share model.

8 Definitions: Brief descriptions of the terminology used in this report

9 Contacts. Details for the analysts involved in this analysis

10 Raw Data. A "flat file" containing all of the data shown in the individual tables.