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Bhavin Shah<br />

(852) 2800-8538<br />

bhavin.a.shah@jpmorgan.com<br />

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Asia Pacific Equity Research<br />

20 April 2009<br />

Digital camera: Components<br />

The new wave of outsourcing will result in new companies gaining ground, in our<br />

view.<br />

Figure 125: Digital camera structure<br />

Source: Ministry of Education, culture, sports, Science and technology.<br />

System assembly<br />

Premier appears best poised to take advantage of the tier-I DSC outsourcing and has<br />

a diverse customer base including Sony, Nikon and Olympus. Following Premier is<br />

Ability, which has emerged as the third-biggest DSC ODM, after Hon Hai and Altek,<br />

in 2008. Samsung <strong>Tech</strong>win and Asia Optical are the other system assembly<br />

companies.<br />

DSP vendors<br />

While DSC is a mature market, there are plenty outsourcing opportunities in the DSP<br />

market. Many Japanese DSC players (Sony, Canon, Casio, Olympus, Nikon, etc.)<br />

have an in-house solution for backend controller. We estimate that merchant chip<br />

vendors (Zoran, TI, Sunplus and Novatek) currently hold only 40-50% market share,<br />

but this could increase significantly in the coming years. Zoran and TI appear strong<br />

in quality, while Sunplus and Novatek provide better local support.<br />

Mediatek had acquired 69% of NuCore, and over the long term, we believe that<br />

Mediatek could become a strong player in this market, as NuCore has a very good IP<br />

portfolio. Sunplus is the other vendor and a major competitor for Mediatek, but it has<br />

not kept pace with its product development roadmap and appears to be losing market<br />

share to Zoran and Novatek.<br />

Power management ICs<br />

The current trend in DSC is a single seven-channel power IC supplying power to<br />

system, motor driver, DSP, CCD, WLED and memory. AAT, Richtek and GMT/<br />

Aimtron have a seven-channel solution in DSC, but Richtek appears to be at an

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