The wireless industry processors expected to continue the eruption of the market for advanced phones, and the British microchip designer ARM announced that growth could even accelerate next year.
The market for so-called 'smartphones' drastically slowed the quarter ending in September, but chip makers - whose products are sold weeks if not months, before the phones to be sold to consumers - said they are seeing a strong market growth, indicating that the slowdown in the third quarter was temporary.
"The 'smartphones' grew this year, and we'll probably see faster growth next year,''said Tim Score, chief financial officer of ARM, at the Annual Conference Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecommunications held in Barcelona .
ARM designs are in 90 percent of phones, including Apple's iPhone and the new high-end model of Nokia N900.
This market has tremendous growth since Apple introduced the iPhone in mid-2007, increasing the appetite of consumers surfing the Internet at any time.
"Things really began to start when Steve Jobs stood up and said: now you can access the Internet in your pocket,''said Erik Harrell, CFO of the Norwegian web browser for mobile phones, Opera Software.
Joep van Beurden, CEO of the company CSR said processor volumes advanced phone market would grow about 20 percent this year.
"There is a strong impetus for smartphones,''also said Carmelo Papa, head of the industrial division of STMicroelectronics.
The lower prices of these phones to shoot next year's growth market while Nokia and Google have their operating systems - Symbian and Android - for cheaper phones, where sales volumes are higher.
"In 2010 will see continued growth as manufacturers and operators seeking to launch open platforms in the mass market,''said Geoff Blaber, analyst at research firm CCS Insight.''Bear the Android and Symbian 'smartphones' below 150 euros.''
Nokia introduced its first smartphone from 150 euros in August.
China Mobile, the world's largest operator by subscribers, said last month it expects average prices of these phones were halved in a year or two.
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