Among In-Stat's many predictions for the year ahead, the following stand out as especially interesting to device developers:
- By late 2007, entertainment PCs will connect to high-definition displays via "wireless HDMI," and "that will really drive the market forward!" according to In-Stat
- 2007 will bring the first "heterogenious multi-architectural processors" -- for example combining ARM and x86 cores in the same processor
- 20 percent of U.S. households will have a PVR (personal video recorder) by the end of 2007
- WiMAX will be deployed more in Europe and Asia than in North America, and WiMAX "e" will put even successful WiMAX "d" vendors under
- PC motherboards will be equipped with UWB Wireless USB by year's end
- "Net neutrality" proponents will turn coats as rising tides of rich media content slow down the Internet
- The IMS control layer software market will collapse to four global suppliers by year's end
- ZigBee will see use in a 5,000-node or larger distribution centers such as FedEx, Target, and UPS
- Mobile carriers will attempt to sell advertising
- China will roll out 3G networks before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
- Chinese cable carriers will roll out 2-way DTV networks that can provide VoIP, data, VoD, and interactive services
- Handheld GPS devices will boom in China in 2007
In-Stat's report also includes a list of successful predictions from last year's report. The full 2007 forecast and 2006 scorecard can be downloaded for free, with registration,
here.
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