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Tuesday 3 June 2014
Handling the ever-increasing demand for wireless: Q&A with Broadcom VP Rahul Patel
With the IT market shifting from PCs to mobile devices, there has been an increased appetite for support for Wi-Fi and wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and near field communication...
Friday 9 May 2014
The market for Bluetooth chipsets will be a cumulative 19 billion over the next 5 years, says ABI Research
Bluetooth shipments broke an annual two billion shipments in 2012 and are set to surpass three billion shipped during 2015 and four billion during 2018. "Cumulatively, over 19...
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Sales of Bluetooth low energy chips to boom in 2014, says Nordic CEO
The market for Bluetooth low energy chips is expected to grow by leaps and bounds in 2013 and 2014 thanks to increasing support for Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth Smart Ready standards...
Friday 1 November 2013
Bluetooth smart chip growth to exceed 55% driven by adoption in consumer electronics, says IHS
The global market for Bluetooth Smart ICs that enable low-power wireless pairing of devices is set for remarkable growth in the next five years, with shipments expected to rise nearly...
Thursday 12 September 2013
Half of Bluetooth enabled devices shipped in 2013 will be Smart ready, says ABI Research
Bluetooth Smart node devices accounted for less than 10% of total Bluetooth 4.0 devices shipped in 2012. However, as device vendors have embraced the technology a wider ecosystem...
Thursday 12 September 2013
Digitimes Research: Bluetooth technology most common feature in smartwatches
While smartwatches vary in their processors, software, memory, displays, memory as well as other components, Bluetooth appears to be the one feature that most vendors agree as a standard,...
Monday 9 September 2013
Bluetooth earphone vendor Plantronics to enter wearable IT device market
Bluetooth earphone vendor Plantronics is planning to enter new consumer-related industries such as gaming headphones and wearable IT devices, and has recently established an R&D...
Tuesday 13 August 2013
ZigBee 2012 market share lead in home automation to be surpassed by Bluetooth in 2015, says ABI Research
By 2018, ABI Research expects annual home automation device shipments to exceed 351 million, growing at a CAGR of 78%. ZigBee dominated IEEE 802.15.4 and claimed the top share of...
Monday 12 August 2013
WLAN and Bluetooth dominate market for wireless-enabled industrial automation equipment, says IMS Research
More than half of all wireless-enabled industrial automation equipment shipped in 2012 used Bluetooth or 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology, with the two entrenched standards...
Thursday 8 August 2013
Bluetooth-enabled devices expected to reach 10 billion in 2018, says ABI
The installed base of Bluetooth-enabled devices alone reached 3.5 billion in 2012 and is forecast to grow to almost 10 billion by 2018, not taking into account many other technologies...
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Bluetooth Smart support in Android 4.3 expected to boost demand for Bluetooth devices, say Taiwan makers
Android 4.3's native support for Bluetooth Smart is expected to drive growth in demand for Bluetooth-enabled devices mainly for health care, sports and physical fitness, home entertainment...
Thursday 6 June 2013
Enabling IoT through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: Q&A with Broadcom marketing director Jeff Baer
Just before Computex 2013, Digitimes spoke with Jeff Baer, marketing director for Embedded Wireless, Wireless Connectivity Combo at Broadcom to find out more about Broadcom's push...
Monday 22 April 2013
Bluetooth IC shipments to nearly double by 2017, says IHS
The market for Bluetooth semiconductors is expected to boom by nearly 100% from 2011 to 2017, with the majority of the growth driven by demand for wireless combination ICs and mobile...
Thursday 11 October 2012
Bluetooth 4.0 to boom in 2013, say handset makers
Handset makers have indicated that following Apple's footsteps, mobile platform makers such as Microsoft, Research In Motion (RIM), and Google all plan to support Bluetooth 4.0 in...
Thursday 5 July 2012
Sales of smartphone accessories increasing
The increasing popularity of smartphones with large-size displays has stirred up demand for accessories, including mobile power packs and Bluetooth headsets, according to industry...