Fast growth estimated for wireless networking semiconductor market

Covering industrial control/automation to new applications such as agriculture/farm automation, wireless networks is a fast growing market. The various protocols in wireless network such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and Z-Wave finding increased usage across multiple application domains. Most of these wireless networking features are commonly available in most of the electronic systems such as laptop and desktop PC, tablet, smartphone, residential gateways, printers, digital cameras, portable media players, e-book readers, video game consoles, speakers and entertainment systems, and televisions. Wireless communication feature is also increasingly found in cars and other automobiles. To save power consumption, home appliances are becoming smart with support of wireless networking capabilities . Wireless networks are also used to offload data traffic from their strained cellular networks. All this points to fast growth of wireless networks. IC Insights has shared these below latest findings how wireless networks offering double digit growth opportunity for semiconductor ICs. As an example, a unit shipment forecast for Wi-Fi (802.11)-enabled systems and products is provided in Figure 1 below. From a unit perspective, the Wi-Fi industry blew through the 2008-2009 recession as though it never existed. Demand for traditional Wi-Fi products (e.g., routers, switches, a...