April 2, 2012 Mobile device semiconductors were one of the few bright spots in a chipset market that stalled in 2011, according to ABI Research. Revenue from chipsets designed for mobile devices increased by more than 20% to $35 billion, while the total semiconductor market limped out of 2011 with just 2% year-on-year growth. Read more

February 26, 2012 Ericsson played the standards game for a winning hand in LTE, according to a missive from an ABI Research analyst here at the Mobile World Congress. They are neither the first nor the last to play that game. Read more

February 20, 2012 A tear down of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus i515 mobile phone conducted by ABI Research recently has revealed an LTE baseband chip that is estimated to be half the cost of a previous version, the market research firm said. Read more

January 10, 2012 Microsemi Corporation claims to have developed a breakthrough technology platform for 4G RF front-end modules (FEMs) based on silicon germanium (SiGe) technology. The company is already developing next-generation IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN FEM on this platform. IEEE 802.11ac is now being referred to as fifth-generation WiFi or 5G WiFi by the industry. Read more

January 4, 2012 “It was only two years ago that nearly every WiMAX operator, including operators with unpaired TDD frequency spectrum, were planning to deploy WiMAX 2,” says Aditya Kaul, practice director, mobile networks. “Today, almost all of them have switched plans and are deploying TD-LTE instead.” TD-LTE is the Time-Division Duplex (TDD) variant of the fourth-generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless standard. Read more

November 30, 2011 Smart posters and mobile marketing are the greatest opportunity for service providers and manufacturers of NFC tags; they account for over half of shipments to date and are expected to be the fastest growing segment, accounting for 70% of shipments in 2016, according to ABI Research. Read more

November 2, 2011 In 2010, global spending on wireless sensor networking (WSN) chipsets in industrial automation reached $2 million, with the overall market expected to grow to $8 million by 2016. Read more

October 19, 2011 Out of a total of 552 million NFC handsets shipped in 2016, 227 million will feature multiple secure elements. The increased inclusion of multiple secure elements will drive the mobile NFC market valuation above the $1 billion mark. Read more

September 14, 2011 Following small shipment volumes in 2012 and a significant increase in shipments in 2013, IEEE 802.11ac will emerge as the dominant Wi-Fi protocol by 2014, according to ABI Research. Only a niche subset of 802.11ac will be single-band 802.11ac, using solely the five GHz band. Most will be 802.11n/802.11ac dual-band chipsets. Read more

August 30, 2011 By 2016, smartphones with touchscreens will account for 97 percent of all smartphone volume, up from 75 percent in 2010, according to market research firm ABI Research Inc. Read more

August 18, 2011 According to ABI Research’s figures, the market for wearable devices will reach more than 100 million units annually by 2016 as a range of factors combine over the next five years to drive consumer and healthcare adoption. These devices, ranging from heart rate monitors for measuring an individual’s performance during sports to wearable blood glucose meters, will all enable greater detail in tracking, monitoring, and care – often through connections provided by mobile phones. Read more

August 15, 2011 The outdoor picocell market, which is still in the early stages of development, is projected to reach $8 billion in global revenues by 2016. Read more

August 15, 2011 Wi-Fi has already been widely adopted across professional healthcare locations in North America, but the expansion of existing networks and the growing adoption of Wi-Fi in other regions around the world will ensure that the market for Wi-Fi access point hardware, software, and services will grow to $1.34 billion by 2016. Read more

July 20, 2011 China telecom giant Huawei Technologies is producing its own HSPA baseband silicon, according to a new teardown report by ABI Research. The discovery of the chip raises questions about how far Huawei's ambitions extend in basebands at a time when LTE networks are on the rise. Read more

July 20, 2011 ABI Research's market data currently tracks 28 commercial FD-LTE networks, and counting. No TD-LTE network has gone live yet, but commercial launches of this technology jointly developed by China and Qualcomm are getting closer, with the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) being formed in February this year to push forward its development and adoption. The five-month old initiative counts prominent WiMAX players such as Clearwire and P1 as its members, as well as major telco operators in Taiwan, India, Japan, and South Korea. Read more

July 11, 2011 Despite the 2008-2009 economic setbacks, the RFID market rebounded nicely in 2010, growing slightly more than 14% to reach roughly USD 5.3 billion. When automobile immobilization hardware is extracted from the total, the market grew close to 18%, capturing nearly USD 4.4 billion. ABI Research's ongoing research and data collection efforts reveal a projected total market size of nearly USD 6 billion in 2011, reflecting slightly more than 11% growth. The 2011 forecast without automobile immobilization is USD 5 billion, growing in excess of 14% over 2010. Read more

June 28, 2011 Qualcomm, Inc., has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Broadcom Corp., and Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) claimed the second and third spots in the company's most recent evaluation of worldwide GPS IC vendors. Read more

June 15, 2011 Much is made of the enormous potential for wearable wireless sensors to deliver remote healthcare, and for good reason. But over the next five years, adoption of wireless healthcare sensors will lag well behind uptake of consumer-driven sports, fitness and wellness devices. Read more

June 1, 2011 Cellular handset vendor Nokia Corp., said Tuesday (May 31) it now expects it expects net sales from devices and services to be substantially below its previously expected second quarter range of between 6.1 billion euro ($8.8 billion) and 6.6 billion euro ($9.5 billion). Read more

May 24, 2011 Fleet management and trailer tracking system revenues will grow at a CAGR of 19.4 percent in the next five years, rising from about $5 billion in 2011 to exceed $12 billion in 2016. Read more

May 3, 2011 LTE is starting to gain critical momentum as we move through 2Q-2011. Currently 12 countries have commercial LTE services, and according to ABI Research VP of Forecasting Jake Saunders, “ABI Research projects that by the end of the year there will be some 16 million subscribers using LTE mobile devices.” Read more

April 1, 2011 By 2016, 45 percent of all smartphones worldwide will be running Google's Android operating system, according to market research firm ABI Research. Read more

March 24, 2011 As many as 467 million health care and personal fitness devices will ship in 2016 using Bluetooth Low Energy, according to a new report by ABI Research. But a delay releasing the spec has given competing technologies a leg up in the new markets, it said. Read more

March 16, 2011 There's no question that in the long term LTE will become the mainstay 4G network technology, although its universal use is still in the future. Until then, says ABI Research, some service providers will benefit from a dual-platform strategy based on both LTE and WiMAX. Read more

March 2, 2011 Wireless sensors are bringing greater control and energy efficiency to the Building Automation Systems (BAS) market with adoption growing during the second half of 2010. Concerns over energy efficiency have long driven interest in new technologies to better manage energy use, and are driving interest and investment in wireless-enabled building environment controls. Read more

February 23, 2011 Smartphone shipments grew from 177 million in 2009 to 302 million in 2010, a 71 percent growth rate according to ABI Research. At the same time Nokia's handset market share has dropped from 39 percent to 33 percent, while the share held by Android-based phone makers has gone from 4 percent to 24 percent, the market analysis company said. Read more

February 8, 2011 Item-level passive UHF tags now make up an increasing share of the total world market for RFID tags. ABI Research forecasts that more than three quarters of a billion RFID tags will be used in global apparel markets in 2011. Read more

January 18, 2011 The initial use-case of Femtocells has been to enhance indoor cellular coverage, but it is now clear that their potential utility is much wider. It is based on “femtozone services” that use key attributes such as location and presence to trigger innovative applications residing on the mobile device, or in the access point, the core gateway, or the cloud. Read more

January 12, 2011 The latest market data from ABI Research shows that themarket for smart cards and secure ICs grew to record levels in 2010, and is forecast to grow even further in 2011. The milestone of six billion ICs was passed for the first time last year as manufacturers bounced back from a poor 2009, recording growth of over 20 percent to meet demand for the 5.9 billion smart cards that shipped. Driving this growth was the SIM card market which reached the shipment landmark of 4 billion units for the first time. Read more

December 21, 2010 ABI Research anticipates that mobile devices may turn out to be the best form factor to bring 3D technology into mainstream markets. By 2015, 3D devices, including smartphones, notebooks, mobile Internet devices, and portable game players, will comprise over 11 percent of the total mobile devices market. Read more

December 15, 2010 ABI Research has forecast that Wi-Fi location will outstrip all other location technologies including GPS, cellular and MEMs, with shipments reaching more than 1 billion by 2015. Senior analyst Patrick Connolly comments: “Location-based services, revenues and advertising are the hot topics of 2010 as companies grapple to gain control of this market. The key is accurate, ubiquitous location-finding across a variety of portable devices such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops. ABI Research has forecast that with the proliferation of Wi-Fi and increasingly lower cost or free location engines, it will become the most widely available location technology over the next five years.” Read more

November 22, 2010 ABI Research sees continuing strong growth potential in RFID markets worldwide. It forecasts a total market size of about $4.6 billion by the end of 2010 for RFID systems (hardware, software, and services). The total reaches $5.5 billion when hardware-only shipments to support automobile immobilization are included. Read more

November 17, 2010 Compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) in excess of 25 percent mean that in 2013 there will be more than 180 million cellular M2M connections active worldwide. Read more

November 1, 2010 According to recent ABI Research Wi-Fi equipment market data, worldwide Wi-Fi access point shipments exceeded 18 million in the second quarter 2010. These shipments include wireless routers, access points and gateways in both consumer and enterprise markets. Read more

November 1, 2010 Vendors are expected to ship as many as 1.34 billion cellphone handsets this year with sales projected to hit 1.7 billion units a year in 2015. The results are based in part on a strong third quarter with sales of 346.2 million handsets and annual growth to date of 20 percent, according to recent reports from ABI Research. Read more

October 1, 2010 ABI Research anticipates that the sensor-driven user interface (UI) will be an emergent theme in the next wave of mobile UI innovation, turning objects, locations, and people into networked, interactive elements. By 2013, 85 percent of smartphones will ship with GPS, over 50% will ship with accelerometers, and almost 50 percent will have gyroscopes says the research firm. Read more

September 29, 2010 Mobile operator capital expenditure on key network items is expected grow a marginal 3 percent in 2010. Contributions to this 2010 growth are coming mainly from equipment spending on Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment but also Core Network (CN). RAN CAPEX should grow 3.5 percent while CN spending is expected to grow 8 percent. Read more

September 22, 2010 Ubiquisys has completed the second close of the funding round first announced in July, with a $5 million investment led by three Taiwanese companies: SerComm Corporation, UMC Capital Corporation and Pacific Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Advent Venture Partners, Accel Partners and Atlas Venture. Building on the company's flagship deployment with SoftBank Mobile in Japan, the capital will be used to accelerate its momentum worldwide, particularly in the Americas. Read more

August 31, 2010 This year, roughly 37 million higher-frequency RFID and RTLS-enabled asset tracking and asset management tags are expected to ship. Read more

August 31, 2010 The market for short range wireless ICs is forecast to expand this year; total shipments of Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, 802.15.4 and Wi-Fi ICs will increase approximately 20 percent compared to 2009. Read more

August 30, 2010 OEM and aftermarket consumer telematics systems continue to gain momentum in both developed and developing regions due to growing popular awareness of their many benefits related to safety, security, maintenance, convenience, infotainment, and cost savings. These benefits will drive growth from 37 million telematics users in 2010 to more than 211 million in 2015, well over a five fold increase. Read more

August 23, 2010 Shipments of “combo” chipsets for mobile devices that gather a variety of connectivity types in one small package are expected to approach 280 million worldwide by the end of 2010 according to ABI Research who forecasts that more than 979 million such chipsets will ship in 2015. Read more

August 17, 2010 According to a new study from ABI Research, about 16% of mobile data is diverted from mobile networks today, and that percentage is expected to increase three-fold to 48% by 2015. But data traffic itself will have grown by a factor of 30, meaning that offloaded data will expand 100-fold. Read more

August 13, 2010 By 2015, the worldwide installed base of digital radio receivers, excluding handsets, is expected to reach nearly 200 million units according to ABI Research's recent “Digital Radio” study. The digital radio market has just began to see consumer adoption in the US and Western Europe. By the end of 2010, about four million digital radios using iBiquity's proprietary HD Radio technology will have shipped in the US. In Europe (led by Britain) governments have chosen the DAB standard and consumers have purchased nearly 13.5 million radio receivers. Read more

August 6, 2010 Low-end and emerging markets are the next fertile fields for growth in smartphones, and Symbian and Android are the best positioned platforms to harvest them. That was the view of analysts at ABI Research who project sales of smartphones could double from about 200 million this year to 400 million in 2014. Read more

July 13, 2010 They go by many marketing names: Single RAN, Uni-BTS, Multi-RAN, Multi-standard Radio. But they all mean essentially the same thing: relatively simple upgrades that allow a single standard base station to support multiple technologies. The next few years will see a rapidly growing – although possibly short-lived – wave of such upgrades throughout both mature and developing markets. Read more

June 29, 2010 Wireless modem devices come in a variety of form factors including USB modems, PC cards, embedded modules, and wireless routers. Among the external devices, USB modems have become the most popular products, so popular that ABI Research forecasts shipments of nearly 81 million this year. Read more

June 24, 2010 The uptake of Wi-Fi within healthcare has grown at more than 60 percent over the past 12 months in both wireless local area network and Wi-Fi RTLS (Real-Time Locations Systems) deployments, and high double-digit growth is expected to continue for at least the medium term, according to ABI Research. Read more

May 17, 2010 Mobile contactless payments and a wealth of other applications enabled by Near Field Communication (NFC) are coming to mobile handsets over the next 12 months, but not in the format originally envisioned. A lack of commercially available NFC-embedded handsets combined with the rise of mobile handsets with microSD slots has helped shape a new approach to NFC that promises to bypass both handset vendors' and mobile network operators' core involvement. Read more