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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 />

GPS market ecosystem<br />

The emerging handset GPS market comprises chip vendors, providers of maps and<br />

location information, geospatial platform providers, handset vendors, and mobile<br />

operators. (Please refer to the 5th Edition of our <strong>Supply</strong> <strong>Chain</strong> Guide for a more<br />

detailed discussion.)<br />

Figure 44: GPS ecosystem for mobiles<br />

Mobile Operators<br />

Sprint Nextel<br />

Verizon<br />

AT&T<br />

GPS Mobile phone vendors<br />

Motorola<br />

Nokia<br />

RIM<br />

HTC<br />

Garmin (Nuvifone)<br />

Pharos<br />

Chipset Providers Digital Map Providers Platform Providers<br />

CSR Nokia (Navteq) Network in Motion<br />

Broadcom Tom Tom (TeleAtlas) TeleNav<br />

NemeriX Google Trimble Outdoors<br />

Qualcomm Microsoft<br />

SiRF<br />

Texas Instruments<br />

u-blox<br />

Mediatek<br />

Source: J.P. Morgan.<br />

Chipset vendors<br />

Semiconductor solutions for GPS technology come as complete solutions in the form<br />

of a chipset with one, two or three chips. Successful solutions are the ones that offer<br />

low chipset prices, a small footprint in circuit boards, low power consumption and<br />

good signal connectivity. The semiconductor cost of integrating GPS or A-GPS<br />

modules to a handset was about US$2 in 2008. According to Gartner, this cost is<br />

expected to fall to US$1.45 by 2010.<br />

Digital map providers<br />

The demand for digital map information has been growing with the increased<br />

adoption of PNDs and the emerging GPS-enabled handset market. The competitive<br />

landscape continues to change as TomTom announced the acquisition of Tele Atlas<br />

in November 2007 and Nokia announced the acquisition of Navteq in October 2007.<br />

With the launch of Google’s GeoEye1 satellite in September 2008, which provides<br />

high quality color satellite images, Google might start getting its own mapping data,<br />

thus leading to the possibility of a new competitor in this space.<br />

Google’s mobile mapping service<br />

Google has introduced a mapping service called “My Location”. My Location<br />

software uses Google maps and cell phone towers to provide this service. Users<br />

simply type the number “0” on their phone to move the map to their approximate

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