Demand for WWAN chipsets to grow
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 16 August 2010, 23:04 IST   |    11 Comments
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Demand for WWAN chipsets to grow
Bangalore: The market for semiconductor suppliers looks to bloom as there is growing demand for embedded wireless wide area network (WWAN) chipsets for slate-style tablets. Market research firm iSuppli says this trend is due to a thriving, emerging wireless consumer devices market. iSuppli forecasts that by 2014, 20.7 million chipsets will be shipped to the slate-style tablet market, which includes Apple's iPad. Also, the slate market is expected to see shipments of 2.1 million by 2014 for a 498.4 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Francis Sideco, Principal Analyst for wireless communications, iSuppli, said in a statement, "While the handset market undoubtedly will remain the driving force in the wireless industry, a crop of new wireless consumer devices such as slates, netbooks, eReaders, and portable media players (PMPs) have opened up an adjacent market, offering new opportunities for semiconductor vendors playing in this space." This development is seeing chip vendors being rejuvenated with the prospect of growth in the market. iSuppli predicts the main driver for the use of WWAN capability in the next five years will be sales of content/multimedia slate devices. The growth of eReaders may also spur escalation for WWAN, iSuppli said, noting that single-function devices will grow at a nearly 40 percent CAGR from 2009 through 2014.

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