Date: 01/08/2011

Freescale Semiconductor tops in the networking/communications processor market

According to the rankings recently issued by market researcher Gartner, Freescale Semiconductor is ranked number one with 53 percent of the market in 2010 and separates Freescale from its closest competitor by more than 40 percent. Freescale says these rapid adoption of its multicore QorIQ products played a key role in the leadership expansion.

"Adoption of multicore QorIQ processors among customers targeting wired and wireless communications processors is strong and getting stronger," said Brett Butler, vice president and general manager of Freescale's Networking Processor Division. "There is tremendous opportunity ahead for further innovation in communications processors, and Freescale is leading the way with its QorIQ communications platforms."

Freescale said it has established the communications processor market in 1989 by delivering the industry's first multi-protocol microprocessor, and since then it has shipped more than 300 million communications processor units. Freescale processor chips are used in routers, switches, digital line cards, wireless LAN access/aggregation points, unified threat management (UTM) appliances, voice over IP (VoIP) equipment, customer premises equipment, SOHO and enterprise routers, as well as printer, high-end imaging and storage applications.