News and Research on Comtech Group, Inc. (COGO)
Business Description
Comtech Group, Inc. provides customized module design solutions to various manufacturers in China. The company’s customized module design solutions allow its customers to use technology components from established suppliers.
The company is focused on the mobile handset, telecom equipment and digital media end-markets in China. In the mobile handset end-market, the company provides module solutions for functionalities such as LCD, camera, power supply and Bluetooth; in the telecom equipment end-market, the company provides solutions for public switched telephone network, or PSTN, switching, optical transmitters, electrical signal processing and optical signal amplification; and in the digital media end-market, it provides solutions for digital set-top boxes and GPS applications.
Products and Technology
The company provides customization of its suppliers’ technology components with module designs to suit each of its customers’ specific needs. The company's customized module design solutions include:
Mobile Handsets: The company’s mobile handsets solutions include LCD modules, Camera modules, Persistent storage modules, Input/output modules, Sound system, Power supplies, Bluetooth, and Multimedia.
Telecom Equipment: The company’s telecom equipment solutions include Fixed line telecom network modules, Data communications modules, Optical transmission modules, and Wireless base-station modules.
Digital Consumer Electronics: The company’s digital consumer electronics solutions include Digital set-top box, GPS, Multimedia module in portable media player, and Multimedia module in home entertainment.
Suppliers
The company's suppliers include Broadcom, JDS Uniphase, Matsushita, M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd., and Sambu Communics Co., Ltd.
Customers
The company's customer base includes many of the major domestic mobile handset, telecom equipment and digital consumer electronics manufacturers in China. In addition, the company's customers include industry participants supporting these OEMs, such as subsystem designers and contract manufacturers in China. The company's major customer in terms of 2006 sales was T&W Electronics Co., Ltd., or T&W Electronics, a major broadband terminal equipment and digital consumer electronics provider in China. The company's major customer in the mobile handset market in terms of net sales was ZTE. The company's two major customers from the telecom equipment industry in terms of net sales were Huawei and ZTE. The company's two major customers in the digital media end-market in terms of net sales were T&W Electronics and Sichuan Jiuzhou Electronics.
During 2006, the company’s major customers include: T&W Electronics, RMB, ZTE, Huawei, Wuxi Zhongxing Optoelectronics, Wuhan Research Institute of Post & Telecommunications, ATI, Young Poong Electronics, Sichuan Jiuzhou Electronics, Starnet Digital Technology, and Accelink Technologies.
Competition
The company competes with other technology component suppliers, such as Avanex Corp. and Bookham, Inc. in supplying optical transmission module designs. The company also competes with component manufacturers and distributors, such as Epcos AG; Arrow Electronics, Inc.; Avnet, Inc.; and Memec, Inc.
History
Comtech Group, Inc. was founded in 1917.
