IC designers to embrace lucrative smart speaker market in 2018

With global brand vendors aggressively venturing into the smart speaker market, the worldwide demand for smart speakers is likely to rise sharply to 30-50 million units in 2018, and the ensuing explosive growth in demand for related chips has prompted mobile and network communications chips suppliers as MediaTek, Qualcomm, Spreadtrum, Broadcom and Marvell, as well as newly emerging China IC designers Allwinner and Rockchip to compete for a slice of the market, according to industry sources.

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