BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion, a customer moves Marvell significant resources to "entry-level smartphones," according to one of its main suppliers.
The chip maker Marvell has been a difficult time for the three months ended January 29 income and revenues were down 6% (and 901 million dollars), net decreased by 13% (and 223 million dollars) compared to the quarter above - is also at Christmas time, which is usually a busy time for smartphone sales. The company's shares fell more than 11% on the news.
According to Marketwatch, CEO Sehat Sutardja results faulted switched by a Marvell customer, to build low-cost, low-margin smartphones - a market that offers Marvell. This client is widely recognized for RIM.
RIM is under pressure from cheaper smartphones running the Android OS from Google. Android basically came from nowhere in 2010 and surpassed RIM's share of the global market. RIM has increased in absolute terms, but fell to third place behind Android and research Symbian (Nokia), according to Gartner.
RIM is also trying to exploit the chaos of Nokia, which recently announced its intention to relocate the Symbian smartphone platform Windows Mobile 7 in the next two years. Nokia sells a lot of Symbian based smartphones worldwide flights, so maybe RIM is studying this market for expansion.
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