Shanzai! MediaTek and the "White Box" Handset Market

Shih, Willy Chien, Chen-Fu Wang, Jyun-Cheng

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The term "White Box" is often used to describe products without a brand name. Such products are assembled from standardized parts, and they became a very popular category of desktop PCs. Hsinchu, Taiwan based MediaTek is a fabless semiconductor company that unleashed a white box market in mobile phone handsets by offering an innovative "complete solution" for 2.5G and 2.7G handset manufacturers, dramatically lowering the barriers to entry into the business. Besides enabling many Chinese branded manufacturers to enter the business, the grey market in components unleashed a complementary market of "Shanzhai" makers. Together these firms captured a significant fraction of the China market, as well as exports (both legal and grey) to 102 countries. CEO Ming-Kai Tsai is faced with the question of the best growth path. While multiple tier one handset makers are dismissive of MediaTek, perhaps because of its role in enabling the Shanzhai, the company's offerings have enabled an "army of ants" to challenge the leaders. Can MediaTek move up-market to sell its chipsets to the likes of Nokia? Under what terms?

出版日
2010/04
改訂日
2010/12
領域
経営・戦略
ボリューム
19ページ
コンテンツID
CCJB-HBS-610081
オリジナルID
9-610-081
ケースの種類
Case (Field)
言語
英語
翻訳
日本語
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