Gartner Report: CEVA Leads DSP Licensing Market

A research report from Gartner, an information technology research and advisory firm, said that CEVA’s overall Digital Signal Processor (News - Alert) (DSP) licensing market share increased over the past year, placing it as the world leader in licensable DSP technology.

 

Gartner's (News - Alert) report, “Market Share: Semiconductor Intellectual Property, Worldwide, 2007,” reports that CEVA has got a commanding share of more than 60 percent of worldwide DSP design licensing market. This marks the growth of CEVA’s DSP licensing market share by 10 percent compared to the last year.

 

“We believe our clear leadership is a testament to our relentless commitment to deliver the industry's most extensive portfolio of DSP cores and related technologies,” said  Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA, in a statement. “Our strong customer base coupled with tier 1 OEM adoption of our technology allows us to extend our market reach and grow the business to applications where DSP IP has yet to be used.”

 

CEVA licenses cores and subsystems to a large number of semiconductor and consumer electronics companies including Broadcom, Infineon, InterDigital, Marvell (News - Alert), Mediatek, Mindspeed, NXP, RadioFrame Networks, Renesas, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Spreadtrum and Zoran. CEVA has conducted DSP licensing for more than a decade with six generations of DSP cores and has completed more than 250 licensing agreements till date.

 

CEVA’s IP portfolio consists of a range of programmable DSP cores and subsystems and a number of solutions for multimedia, audio, voice over packet (VoP), Bluetooth and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA). In 2007, CEVA also supplied more than 225 million CEVA-powered devices to wireless handset, automotive, consumer electronics and storage markets.

 

Gartner report also found that the market for semiconductor IP grew by 8 percent in 2007 to $1.9 billion. ARM (News - Alert), a company that designs advanced digital products including wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices, topped the market for design IP. Nvidia, a manufacturer of graphics-processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and handheld devices, led the market of semiconductor technology licensing.