In Taiwan, GPS suppliers, besides taking over most international companies' orders, also successfully develop GPS watches for climbing, golfing and cycling. GPS navigation devices have developed rapidly in recent years.

 Taiwan GPS Receiver Market

In Taiwan, GPS suppliers, besides taking over most international companies' orders, also successfully develop GPS watches for hiking, golfing and cycling. GPS navigation devices have developed rapidly in recent years and are now much more than talking maps. Auto electronics, consumer electronics, home appliances, information and communications technology (ICT), and telecoms companyies have worked together to give them a much more diverse range of functions including use inthose of MP3 players, digital photo albums, movie players, and real-time road-condition receivers. They now provide information on navigation, recreation, and entertainment, all in a single unit.

Taiwan's GPS industry started to take off in 2007. After MiTAC bought Navman, they've become the second biggest GPS company in Europe.  Also, their sales of 800 million of PND has made them become the third largest GPS supplier in the world. At the same time, TomTom and Garmin have expended their ordering to Taiwan OEM's from components to fabrication products. The global leader in satellite navigation, Garmin Ltd. and its subsidiaries have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold navigation, communication and information devices and applications since 1989 - most of which are enabled by GPS technology. One of their principal subsidiaries is located in Taiwan. Including Japanese and European orders, Taiwan's GPS sales were around NT$171 billion. The total growth rate was 70%, which makes its growth very noticeable compared to the 2007 ICT industry growth rate of 4.6%, or 730 billion dollars.

Even though this year, European and U.S. consumer electronic product sales are still being effected by the current economy situation, IEK is still verypretty positive about the GPS market in Taiwan. The Taiwan GPS industry market will grow strongly once the market moves from Europe and the, U.S. to the newly developed countries

• GPS for Hiker
  

What's a suitable GPS for cycling? Color mapping,long life battery or replaceable batteries, topo, street/road, & bike trail mapping, text-to-speech (gives me the street name), prefer selectable car vs bicycle mode, a way to pick future routes, possibly software that would use steet & topo to avoid large hilly areas on long distance biking, large SD card, fairly waterproof, screen can be seen in sunlight. One of the Taiwan GPS receiver suppliers announced their product as an all-in-one GPS receiver.

Dedicated massive-correlator signal parameter search engine within the baseband enables rapid search of all the available satellites and acquisition of very weak signal. An advanced track engine allows weak signal tracking and positioning in harsh environments such as urban canyons and under deep foliage.

With very fast signal acquisition speed, it has very low average power consumption for locate on demand type of applications.

• GPS for Golfing

Golf GPS systems are rapidly evolving from only player enhancement to complete course management systems. The primary goal of a golf GPS system is to provide players with distances to all kind of features on the course and especially to the green they are playing. Some courses are better fit to use the capabilities of GPS than others. In order to obtain a satisfactory accuracy the GPS receiver must have a non-obstructed view of the sky. This makes that courses with lots of trees are less suitable for golf GPS.

Golf GPS system should contain the following:
Provides you with GPS distances from "any" location on the hole to the 200, 150, 100 yard / meter markers, to the front, centre, and back of the Green;
record the GPS distance, club used and landing position for every stroke you make;
stroke length Statistics: tells you the average and longest distance you hit each club in your bag.  You know exactly how far you drive the ball;
club Selector!Suggest which club to use for your next stroke based on the historical stroke data already stored from previous scorecards!

Taiwan GPS suppliers, Mobile Action Technology Inc and Polar have released their new GSP products for sport. 

• GPS for Cycling

Whether you are a road biker or a mountain biker, there's a GPS that will work well for you, and it can mount right on your handlebars. All of them have high-sensitivity chipsets for superior satellite reception in urban canyons and under canopy. While they are excellent cyclometers, they aren't all that great as navigation devices. If you are primarily wanting to track your performance though, Taiwan suppliers who make sporting GPS receivers would be your excellent choice. They are suitable for whoever wants data acquisition and a dashboard lap timer.

Taiwan GPS Receiver Suppliers

• SkyTraq Introduces GPS RFIC Chip

Taiwan GPS chipset maker SkyTraq Technology Inc.  SkyTraq is a fabless semiconductor company, which develops GPS chipset for consumer navigation and tracking applications. SkyTraq's high-sensitivity GPS technology delivers state of the art TTFF performance, and enables operation under indoor and difficult urban canyon environments.
SkyTraq's main products are: Venus634LPx GPS receiver and Venus634LP GPS receiver.

• San Jose Technology INC.

SANJOSE TECHNOLOGY, INC. is a GPS (Global Positioning System) hardware and turnkey solution manufacturer specializing in mobile and marine GPS receivers/antennas. Located in Taiwan, they commenced operations in 1990 with+ telecommunications technology. Later in 1995, in cooperation with prominent GPS companies in USA & Japan, they started their technical interflow & research on GPS technologies.  Their main products are bluetooth, GPS Receiver, AIS Receiver, GPS Locator.

• GlobalSat Technology Corp.

GlobalSat Technology Corp. was established in 2000 and soon become a major manufacturer of GPS receivers and electronic communications in . GlobalSat has refined its core product lines to GPS applications, which consist of All-In-One Car Navigator, Bluetooth GPS, Cable GPS, SDIO/Compact Flash GPS, GPS Tracking System (GSM/GPRS/SMS communication with GPS/A-GPS), Wrist Type GPS Personal training Devices, GPS Engine Boards/Modules, and GPS System Integration.

• HOLUX Technology Inc.

HOLUX Technology Inc. is a professional consumer GPS (Global Positioning System) products provider. We started our research, development, manufacturing and selling of GPS and RF products in 1994,　when HOLUX was established. Current products are including Handheld GPS, GPS Receiver and GPS module.

• Union Rich Development

A well-known professional GPS designer and manufacturer in Taiwan. In 2008, they announced their first 3D map with 3.5” GPS released and the most innovative map with A850 in Taiwan.

Do you know Taiwan suppliers make great GPS chipsets?

Because GPS chipset’s performance affects GPS’ positioning speed, sensitivity, positioning time, etc; they have become suppliers’ main target. For the last two years, GPS chipset suppliers try to merge or develop a new strategy to ensure their position and technology in the market remain strong.

In 2007, Taiwan chipset company MediaTek has become Garmin’s supplier and other companies such as Prolific Technology Inc. and MStar Semiconductor, Inc. and SkyTraq slowly become influential in GPS chipset market.

• MediaTek Inc.

MediaTek Inc. is a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital media solutions. The company is a market leader and pioneer in cutting-edge SOC system solutions for wireless communications, high-definition digital TV, optical storage, and high definition DVD products. Founded in 1997 and listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange under the code "2454", MediaTek is headquartered in Taiwan and has sales and research subsidiaries in Mainland China, Singapore, India, U.S., Japan, Korea, Ireland, Denmark and England.

• Prolific Technology

Prolific Technology Inc., a leading IC design house and ASIC design service provider, was founded in November 1997 by a group of highly experienced and specialized technical engineers. The Company started out by developing Smart I/O IC solutions, focusing on niche USB/IEEE 1394 bridge controller products. The Company then also ventured in the Mixed-Mode technology development, successfully designing Brushless Motor Driver IC and Hall sensors. With the future towards 3C integration, the Company will devote more efforts in SOC development as well as integration of competitive multimedia (MPEG-4/JPEG/MP3) and GPS products.

• Mstar Semiconductor

MStar Semiconductor, Inc. is a professional IC design house, and is dedicated in providing mixed-mode integrated circuit technologies. By combining semiconductor design expertise and advanced proprietary technologies, MStar delivers a broad line of products: multimedia, wireless communications ICs, general-purpose mixed-mode ICs, and Intellectual Property (IP) development services. Backed by a very experienced mixed-mode R&D team (members are with years of experiences of mixed-mode design and were the key members of the mixed-signal design groups from several prestigious hi-tech corporations), MStar is able to leverage its know-how in mixed-mode processing to deliver products, which facilitates our diversified range of semiconductor solutions. MStar is committed to providing timely, professional technical services to ensure customers success using our products.

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What is GPS receiver?

When people talk about "a GPS," they usually mean a GPS receiver. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is actually a constellation of 27 Earth-orbiting satellites (24 in operation and three extras in case one fails). The U.S. military developed and implemented this satellite network as a military navigation system, but soon opened it up to everybody else.

A GPS receiver's job is to locate four or more of these satellites, figure out the distance to each, and use this information to deduce its own location. This operation is based on a simple mathematical principle called trilateration.

The most essential function of a GPS receiver is to pick up the transmissions of at least four satellites and combine the information in those transmissions with information in an electronic almanac, all in order to figure out the receiver's position on Earth.  

GPS Receivers vs. Tracking

There is a popular misperception that GPS is a "tracking" technology and therefore that it can be easily misused by public agencies and private companies to monitor people's whereabouts. In reality, a GPS receiver is just that, a receiver. It knows its location (latitude, longitude, altitude, compass heading, and speed) anywhere on Earth, within about 30 feet. (Differential GPS receivers can achieve an accuracy of a few millimeters.) However, several companies now produce GPS-based tracking devices that couple a GPS receiver with a wireless transmitter, usually using the control channel on a cellular network. These devices relay the position of a vehicle to a tracking center. Someone who purchases a handheld GPS receiver at a sporting goods store or a car GPS receiver at an electronics store need not fear that Big Brother will hence always know her or his whereabouts. However, someone renting a car or a boat might ask whether the vehicle is equipped with a GPS receiver and a transmitter, as rental companies often track their vehicles.