Fountain Valley-based D-Link Systems Inc. has a 19% market share for routers, adapters, switches and other “wired” networking devices, according to a recent survey by Scottsdale-based market researcher In-Stat.
D-Link commissioned the survey, which spans from third quarter 2002 until third quarter 2007.
It counts the number of switches,or Ethernet ports,on each product shipped by the networking gear makers.
No. 1 Cisco Systems Inc. shipped 452 million ports and has 27% of the market, according to the survey.
D-Link, part of Tawain’s D-Link Corp., shipped 322 million ports during the period, the survey showed.
No. 3 was Linksys, an Irvine-based maker of networking gear for consumers that’s owned by Cisco.
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Linksys is D-Link’s closest competitor, with 229 million ports shipped and 14% market share.
No. 4 is Santa Clara-based Netgear Inc., with 221 million ports shipped and 13% of the market.
No. 5 Marlborough, Mass.-based 3Com Corp. shipped 128 million ports and has about 8% market share, according to the report.
D-Link got its start in 1986. It’s bread and butter is selling networking gear for home offices and to small to midsize businesses.
The company has yearly revenue of about $1.3 billion, including about $350 million from the Fountain Valley unit.
Slower Growth for Chips
The top executives at the biggest chipmakers are looking for slower growth in 2008, according to a recent study.
Global accounting and consulting group KPMG LLP and the Semiconductor Industry Association, a San Jose-based trade group, polled 94 executives at the top 100 chip companies about their expectations.
Nearly all of them, 99%, expect revenue growth this year. About half, 52%, estimate growth will exceed 10% this year,a more moderate projection than year-ago estimates, the survey showed.
A year earlier, 60% of respondents said they expected revenue to grow more than 10%.
Executives said they expect greater competition from emerging markets and less spending on research and development, the survey showed.
They also said they expect improvements in manufacturing and product innovation to lead to more industry consolidation.
“Semiconductor execs are grappling with profitability outlooks while dealing with the dynamics of increased competition, pricing pressures and manufacturing challenges,” said Gary Matuszak, head of KPMG’s global information, communications and entertainment practice. “The focus right now is on maintaining a growth path, which points to continued spending, although at muted levels, and potential consolidation in the industry.”
The study found that executives are less optimistic about profitability. For the next five years, 33% said profits would be flat; 26% said profits would be volatile and unpredictable; 15% said profits would decline; and 27% said profits would rise.
The study found that 64% of the executives polled expect chipmakers that don’t operate their own chip fabrication plants,what’s called “fabless” companies,would be the most profitable in the next five years.
Local fabless chip companies include Broadcom Corp., Conexant Systems Inc. and startups Aristos Logic Corp., Solarflare Communications Inc., WiSpry Inc., among others.
Most design chips locally and have them made at plants in Asia.
Fabless chip companies are likely to see their chips going into consumer electronics, cell phones and computers,the top users of chips in the coming years.
Citysearch Goes Local
Irvine’s Local.com Corp., which runs a Web site that helps people search for local businesses, inked a deal with Citysearch, an online guide to local restaurants, businesses and night life.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Citysearch is part of New York’s IAC/InterActive Corp.
Local.com expects to see a boost in advertising sales from the deal but declined to say how much.
The move lets Local.com display Citysearch’s business profiles, reviews, coupons and photos alongside the search results.
Citysearch, in turn, gets to better target its online ads.
“We believe Citysearch advertisers will benefit from the high return on investment of our search traffic, and this in turn will help drive improved monetization of our site,” said Peter Hutto, vice president of sales and business development for Local.com.
Local.com says its site is viewed by about 10 million visitors a month.
