Andrew Schmitt writes about the new Linley Group report on FTTH silicon market share. According to the report the market grew 20% over the last year in dollar terms and Andrew estimates that shipments grew 50%. Here’s some data that Linley shared with Andrew Schmitt:

We estimate the total merchant market for PON ICs was about $90 million in 2006, up 20% from 2005. We estimate PMC-Sierra had a share of about 60%, and we rank Teknovus and BroadLight second and third, respectively. A host of other vendors accounted for the rest of the market. In alphabetic order, these suppliers include Centillium, Conexant, Freescale, and Immenstar.