A New Market Reality for Crystal and Oscillator Vendors, According to Allied Business Intelligence.Business/Technology Editors OYSTER BAY Oyster Bay, uninc. area (1990 pop. 6,687) of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau co., SE N.Y., on N Long Island, on Long Island Sound; settled 1653. It is chiefly residential. , N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2002 "The crystal timing market reached an unsustainable high point in 2000 due to build out of communications infrastructure and continued growth in traditional handset and PC markets," said Andy Fuertes, Director of Wireless Research and author of the new ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. report, "Oscilllators World Markets, Changing Dynamics, New Market Drivers and Competitive Landscape." "However, 2001 ushered in a series of firsts that changed that, including the first ever declines in handset and PC shipments and a sweeping financial crisis in telecommunications. The result was a decline in market value from $3.1 billion in 2000 to $2.5 billion in 2001." The steepest declines occurred in the telecommunications market pushing down the market value of telecom-dependent VCXOs by 25%. VCXOs also endured encroachment An illegal intrusion in a highway or navigable river, with or without obstruction. An encroachment upon a street or highway is a fixture, such as a wall or fence, which illegally intrudes into or invades the highway or encloses a portion of it, diminishing its width or area, but by replacement technologies such as timing recovery modules which extract a timing reference from a data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. stream and eliminate the need for a VCXO VCXO Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator . The impact of these silicon devices has been mainly in the SONET realm but expansion overtures are ominous. Disruptive technologies such as silicon timing devices have put greater pressure on existing oscillators vendors to move up the functionality food chain and/or to partner or combine with existing silicon houses. The future of oscillator oscillator Mechanical or electronic device that produces a back-and-forth periodic motion. A pendulum is a simple mechanical oscillator that swings with a constant amplitude, requiring the addition of energy at each swing only to compensate for the energy lost because of air products, particularly high-value, VCXOs, TCXOs, and OCXOs is uncertain. Systems designers continue to target these devices for elimination from their designs. Oscillator vendors must respond by either staying on the cutting edge of new applications or by expanding their capabilities. Meanwhile the highs of 2000 are not considered to be immediately obtainable but positive growth from the low point in 2001 is expected to become evident in late 2002, early 2003. Key market drivers looking forward are the build out of next generation wireless networks along with next generation handsets. 2.5G and 3G handsets represent a convergence of wireless and handheld computers. Consumer devices and the proliferation of distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. are also expected to be factors. Allied Business Intelligence Inc. is an Oyster-Bay, NY-based technology research think tank and consultancy that offers expert advice and research on wireless, broadband and emerging technologies. Details can be found at www.alliedworld.com or by calling 516-624-3113. |
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