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To: qbull who wrote (63725)	5/16/2007 10:17:20 AM
From: waitwatchwander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196961

The market for WCDMA chips rose 25 percent to $1.76 billion in 2006, iSuppli reported. ... Texas Instruments' share of the market fell to 33 percent in 2006 from 42 percent the previous year, El Segundo, California-based iSuppli said. Qualcomm's share of the chips climbed to 31 percent from 26 percent. ... Texas Instruments' sales of WCDMA chips fell 3 percent to $575 million last year. Qualcomm increased its sales of the chips 48 percent to $539 million. Freescale Semiconductor Inc. climbed to third place, with 15 percent of the market. Its sales rose 90 percent to $258 million. NEC Electronics Corp., dropping to fourth place from third, had 7.8 percent of sales. bloomberg.com