number of GPS chips will skyrocket

According to a study done by In-Stat the number of GPS chipsets will increase mostly due to their integration into mobile devices, sat navs, cellular phones, netbooks, and a variety of other portable devices.

According to a study done by In-Stat the number of GPS chipsets will increase mostly due to their integration into mobile devices, sat navs, cellular phones, netbooks, and a variety of other portable devices. Categories with most expansion is expected are ultra mobile devices (UMDs), handheld games, portable media players, and even digital cameras.

GPS chipset shipments are expected to grow from 110 million in 2006, to 725 million in 2011. GPS chipset revenues are expected to grow from $520 million in 2006, to more than $1.3 billion in 2011, with the extremely high volumes offsetting the very rapid chipset price erosion.

Currently Qualcomm is quite big with cell phones with integrated GPS solution, while SiRF is the leader when it comes to standalone GPS navigation systems… via

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number of GPS chips will skyrocket