Set Top Box Comparison on Amlogic and Mstar Solution

post:2015-01-26


      Set Top Box Comparison on Amlogic and Mstar solution, 12 master vendors for the 30 million market, OTT box market is uprising.

      For our forecat, OTT box selling will be more than 30 million this year, next year will increase to $100 millions, although growth speed is very fast, compared with the tablet, its size still small.

Even in this situation, lots of set top box seller want to share of partial in the market.

 At home, Now in the market competition consisting of a total of 12 master manufacturers, and terminal manufacturers is countless.

      The tablet computer market has become a very mature market after years of wildly growth and fast development in this field. The tablet computer is calming down, and we will meet another new blossom in  OTT box, as also be called internet set top box.

      What's the differnce between Amlogic and Mstar?

      This kinds of boxes can surf online and also can receive many TV programs. It will become a good opportunity in manufactures and internet companies to make new enterprise business.

      From the hardware conditions, tablets and OTT box products are very similar, relative to tablets, OTT boxes don't need big touch screen box, harsh power consumption and heat dissipation design, only to join the remote control and add such as HDMI and AV interface at the same time.It save a lot costs, in saving a screen.

       It is understood that the current market in OTT box for the total of 12 master vendors: such as Amlogic, Allwinner, Rockchip, MTK, MstarHiSilicon, ActionsInfotmic, Realtex, Ali, signs in the core, ZTE Microelectronics ect.

      Amlogic semiconductor is one of the largest market share manufacturers in Android box.

      Grantham research points out that China's set-top box in the 2013 white paper, on the Android platform, the OTT TV set-top box chips solution mainly market mainstream is Amlogic , it occupies more than 

70% of the market, many mainstream licences and domestic brands are choosing Amlogic 

 solution.

      Look at this picture: Set Top Box Comparison

Set Top Box Comparison

      Why do so many brands choose Amlogic solution

      The reason mainly lies in: one is the earlier adopted by domestic manufacturers and its product performance is relatively stable and mature; 

      Another is lies in rivals, though a ship was started in 2013, but generally 3 ~ 6 months the manufactures and buyers will have reaction in the market.

      Furthermore, Amlogic itself is also in constant progress, because Amlogic set-top box chip solution is much stable relative to other chips.

      In this year, Amlogic market share carved up gradually with more and more domestic manufacturers of master intervened, but still dominant statusfor 30% of the share.

      In our company is now in OTT solution is dual-core AML8726 - MX, AML8726 MXS, as well as the latest quad-core S802,S805 and S812. The S802 can support 4 k2k video decoding, S805 and S812 supports h. 265 hardware solution.

      The biggest chips suppliers in smart TV field are MTK and Mstar.Our Mstar is now paying more attention on the android tv box market in stead of only focus on TV solution. 

      Quad core is the mainstream, h. 265 decoding is inneed.

The mainstream configuration OTT box CPU is dual-core CPU in last year, it will replace by quad core CPU in 2015. 

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