Mobile ringtone and MP3 melody chips, already ‘a billion-dollar m...
Mobile ringtone and MP3 melody chips, already “a billion-dollar market,” will continue to be the largest class of audio chips manufactured through 2010, said a report released Wed. by Forward Concepts (FC). The research firm said MP3 audio chips…
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will remain strong the next 2 years, and then the mobile phone will begin to displace the personal audio player; increased digital class D audio amplifier sales support this, FC said. The report added that while “discrete” analog chips remain the dominant sellers, multichannel chips with digital signal processing -- for high-quality audio -- are becoming increasingly popular in the market.