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The wireless chip industry is optimistic the smartphone market will continue to grow, even until next year. This was confirmed by micro-chip design companies from the UK, ARM.

Reported by Reuters on Friday (20/11/2009), Smartphones market is growing quite slowly in the third quarter of this year. But chipmakers are sure if the smartphone gives a pretty good enlightenment on the chip industry. Even the slowing growth this quarter is only temporary.

This chipmakers statement trustworthy. The reason, they chip product, which is used in smartphones sold in advance, approximately a week or a month before the smartphone sold to consumers

“Growing smartphone market this year. And the continuity of this growth will be seen more quickly next year,” said Tim Score ARM CFO. ARM itself is now designing a chip that is used in 90 percent of mobile phones, including the iPhone’s phone, and Nokia N900.

Added CSR CEO Joep van Beurden, the volume of smartphone products will likely rise 20 percent this time because this year is a strong momentum for the Smartphone market, which since the emergence of the iPhone. At that time, Steve Jobs assured everyone that the world of the Internet has been in the grip of all people. Not surprisingly, then all the people interested to have an iPhone.

Next year, chipmakers believe, the price will be more expensive smartphones, along with mobile phone manufacturers started to care about the OS is open, such as Nokia and Google, each with Symbian and Android. This also will increase the sales volume of the smartphone world.

“Vendors increasingly interested in using an open platform in 2010. This will result in Android and Symbian mobile phones capable of producing at a price of 150 euros,” said CCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber.