GPS IC Market Competition by Manufacturers, Technological Development and Trends 2025

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26th November 2018: Global Positioning System (GPS) technology has advanced its applications across several industries over the globe; the new applications ranges are coming up due to its substantial advantages. Few applications are simple, such as determining a location, whereas some are complex blends of GPS with communications and other technologies. The fast growth in GPS commercial applications has been witnessed by the firms building GPS satellites and equipment’s over the past few years. In future, the GPS market is anticipated to flourish with new technological advancements. One of the key factors contributing to growth of global market for GPS IC is the increased use of GPS ICs in smartphones. Global GPS IC market has also been observing the advancement of multifunctional GPS ICs. Though, the absence of accuracy in GPS data could encounter challenge to the growth of GPS IC market.
GPS offers benefit such as wireless connectivity and low power consumption, which is also anticipated to drive market demand over the forecast period. However, factors such as its high cost of operation may hinder its market growth. Technical glitches such as satellite orbit shift and clock inaccuracy also pose to be a challenge to the GPS market. The rapid growth in the improvement of global positioning system integrated circuits technology is a key trend in the Global GPS IC market. Vendors of the GPS integrated circuits design the ICs by focusing on the requirements end users. Technological improvements in GPS IC are in terms of refining the navigation abilities along with adding extra some features. With technological developments, GPS devices are planned with communications and other technologies such as voice-guided navigation applications, tracking and tracing, location-enabled search, voice-guided in-car navigation, people tracking, and advertising.
The growing demand for GPS ICs in smartphones is one of the foremost growth drivers for the Global GPS IC market. Presently, nearly nine out of ten smartphones are GPS enabled and these devices are anticipated to contribute significantly to the overall revenue of the Global GPS IC market. With implanted mapping services and GPS receivers in smartphones, users are able to obtain text and voice-guided directions, data on points of interest, and real-time position tracking. Moreover, the Global Smartphone market unit shipment is projected to grow considerably over the forecast period, which in turn will assist the growth of GPS IC. Geographically the global market for GPS IC is segmented into North America, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Asia, Europe and Latin America, while the Key regions for this market are North America, Asia Pacific and Europe. Middle East and Africa is still lagging behind in this technology as the adoption rate is less in countries of MEA. Asia Pacific is anticipated to appear as high growth regional market due to rising demand for GPS technology in nations such as India and China. Europe and North America are also anticipated to witness substantial growth over the forecast period.
The key vendors dominating the global market for GPS IC include Qualcomm Inc., Broadcom Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Media Tek, and CSR Plc., while other predominant players include Maxim Integrated Products Inc., RF Micro Devices, and Analog Devices Inc. Qualcomm is the chief GPS integrated circuit vendor which is followed by Broadcom at second place.
MediaTek has now appeared as a major threat, being third on innovation, following very striking shipments of its combinations of ICs into confined Chinese smartphone vendors. Moreover it is strong on recreational and cameras, with an increasing existence in other markets. MediaTek move towards entirely embedded GPS in 2013 should show significance in fueling market share over the forecast period. Beside this, STMicroelectronics is competing aggressively among competitors with its new Tesco III platform giving it significant flexible design.

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