ABI Research Finds Renewed Focus on Power Management in Mobile Phones.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. -- The topic of power management in a mobile phone would have drawn yawns from most people in the industry a few years ago. Handset power management circuitry lacked the glamour of such components as the DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and the applications processor. But according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. 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. Research's principal analyst of semiconductor research, Alan Varghese, today's high Today's High The intra-day high trading price. Notes: In other words, this is the highest price that a stock traded at during the course of the day. More often than not this is higher than the closing price. See also: Today's Low data rates, and the cellphone's evolution into a personal multimedia center boasting digital cameras, mobile video and advanced gaming, mean that all eyes are again on handset power consumption and battery life. So the power management section, which is responsible for converting battery energy into voltages to power all parts of the handset, will see renewed focus and innovation. Does this mean increasing revenues and healthy profit margins for the semiconductor players in this space? "Not quite," says Varghese. "Like any other part of the high-volume electronics industry, this sector will see falling ASPs due to technological advances, increased manufacturing output, and supplier competition. And since tight coupling Refers to hardware and software components that are linked together and dependent upon each other. For example, in a multiprocessing environment, where several computers share the workload, a tightly-coupled system would have to be shut down in order to add or replace a machine. between handset components is crucial to reducing power consumption and increasing performance, companies that offer discrete power solutions are going to suffer at the hands of those offering integrated platform solutions." But the good news is that, even though the price of an individual power supply circuit continues to fall, the total number of these circuits required in a portable device continues to increase, offsetting some of the general downward trend in industry ASPs. The key for power management players will be a multi-tiered product strategy that leverages high volumes and manufacturing efficiencies in the mature standards, as innovation delivers its associated high profit margins in the more advanced segments. ABI Research's new study, "Power Management in Consumer Electronics" discusses these issues in detail, examining market drivers and inhibitors, business models, technology trends, forecasts and much more. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , ABI Research maintains global operations that support annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in wireless, automotive, semiconductors, broadband, and energy. For more information please visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500. |
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