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元器件交易网讯 7月23日消息，据外媒报道，博通周二称公司正在逐步缩减手机基带芯片业务的亏损，并削减五分之一的劳动力。
首席执行官斯科特·麦格雷戈在6月初表示将退出基带业务，尝试其它可能的销售市场，公司决定关闭它。
博通公司表示，它已经缩减250份销售和管理的工作工位，预计将在全球裁员减2250名员工。这占员工总数12550名的20%。
博通的连接芯片广泛应用于智能手机，包括苹果iPhone。但该公司在基带芯片和前沿4G技术进步缓慢，失去市场份额，该市场目前由高通公司主导。
博通一直为中国低成本的智能手机制造商开发基带技术与连接芯片。放弃基带业务将减少博通的成本，但它可能离开芯片制造商处于竞争的劣势。
博通预测调整的第三季度毛利率为55%，高于华尔街预期的53%。
博通公司公布第二季度营收为20.4亿美元，较上年同期下降了2.3%。它表示，第三季度收入将在21亿美元和22.5亿美元之间,其预期中点是21.75亿美元。分析师预计，第二季度营收为20.5亿美元，第三季度营收为21.9亿美元。
在第二季度，博通公司损失了100万美元，去年亏损2.51亿美元，每股43美分。第二季度每股收益65美分，分析师平均预期的61美分。
（元器件交易网董蕾 译）
外媒原文如下：
Broadcom Corp said on Tuesday it is winding down its money-losing cellular baseband chip business and cutting one-fifth of its total workforce, instead of selling the unit.
Chief Executive Scott McGregor told analysts on a conference call that after Broadcom said in early June it would exit baseband and then tested the market for a possible sale, the company decided to shut it down.
"We made the decision to pursue a wind-down, which minimizes the ongoing losses from the business, and enables us to focus on our core strengths that much more quickly," McGregor said.
Broadcom said it has cut 250 sales and administrative jobs and expects to reduce worldwide headcount by another 2,250 employees. Those jobs are equivalent to about 20 percent of the 12,550 employees Broadcom cited in its 2013 annual report.
Earlier on Tuesday, Broadcom reported stronger-than-expected adjusted second-quarter earnings and gave a third-quarter gross margin forecast that pushed the chipmaker"s stock higher.
Broadcom"s connectivity chips are used widely in smartphones including Apple"s iPhones. But the company lost market share in baseband chips and made slow progress in leading-edge 4G technology, which is dominated by Qualcomm Inc.
The Irvine, California company is the latest chipmaker to abandon the baseband market. Texas Instruments Inc cut 1,700 jobs in 2012 after failing to sell its mobile chip business.
Developing baseband technology to combine with its connectivity chips had been seen as Broadcom"s response to low-cost smartphone makers in China. Abandoning baseband will reduce Broadcom"s costs, but it may leave the chipmaker at a competitive disadvantage.
Broadcom forecast an adjusted gross margin of 55 percent for the third quarter, higher than the 53 percent expected by Wall Street.
“This tells me that getting out of (baseband) was the right news,” RBC analyst Doug Freedman said of Broadcom"s outlook.
Smartphone chipmakers have been adjusting as industry growth shifts away from North America toward China and other developing countries, where consumers favor handsets selling for under $200 rather than such top-tier devices as the iPhone.
Broadcom reported second-quarter revenue of $2.04 billion, down 2.3 percent from the year-ago period. It said revenue in the third quarter would be between $2.10 billion and $2.25 billion. The midpoint of its forecast is $2.175 billion. Analysts on average had expected second-quarter revenue of $2.05 billion and third-quarter revenue of $2.19 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. In the second quarter, Broadcom lost $1 million, or 0 cents a share, compared with a loss of $251 million, or 43 cents a share, last year. Non-GAAP earnings per share were 65 cents in the second quarter. Analysts on average expected 61 cents.
