2010-2015 Global Wi-Fi Chip Development Forecast

In 2011, the earthquake in Japan, floods in Thailand, and the debt crisis in Europe triggered a crisis in the global electronics industry chain, which caused the entire electronics industry to fall into a recession. Upstream and downstream companies in the industrial chain have suffered different degrees of impact. In 2012, the electronics market showed signs of bottoming out, and the number of days of various electronic components stocks showed a declining trend. Mobile phone semiconductors, such as Wi-Fi chips, represent a new type of electronic components, and also brought some to the electronic components market. upgrade.

With the rapid development of the Internet, more and more consumer electronics products have integrated Wi-Fi functionality into them. Affected by this trend, the Wi-Fi chip market has maintained rapid growth. With the declining prices of Wi-Fi chips and the need for transmission connectivity between different devices with Wi-Fi capabilities, Wi-Fi provides a new standard for Wi-Fi that was traditionally dominated by traditional wireless connectivity standards. Fields and opportunities. According to the latest research from NPD In-Stat, Wi-Fi chip revenue will reach US$6.1 billion in 2015 driven by demand from new markets such as smart meters, wireless mice, the automotive industry, and home automation.

The 802.11n standard has a speed of up to 600 Mbps and is a market-proven wireless network technology that has now settled in numerous businesses and homes, providing the speed, range, and reliability needed to support the most bandwidth-sensitive applications. . 802.11n combines multiple technologies including Spatial Multiplexing MIMO, 20 and 40MHz channels, and dual band.

GPD Potter, an analyst with NPD In-Stat, said: "While Wi-Fi is not yet able to maximize the bandwidth utilization of broadband, Wi-Fi will still appear in more and more as network bandwidth continues to increase. For devices with high bandwidth requirements, such as the recent emergence of new applications, high-definition streaming video needs to be transmitted from other devices to TVs, and new Wi-Fi standards such as 802.11ac are facing such pairs. Bandwidth demanding transmission market."

In fact, in recent years, the demand for video applications is opening up new markets for Wi-Fi. The report shows that the number of built-in Wi-Fi in digital TVs has grown explosively, and the penetration rate of Wi-Fi will rapidly grow from 8% in 2010 to 40% in 2015. The number of Wi-Fi-enabled devices in digital TV set-top boxes (cable, satellite, IP, and terrestrial) is growing slowly, but the IP set-top box Wi-Fi penetration will increase from 1% in 2010 to nearly 50% in 2015.

"Smart phones, laptops and tablets will accelerate the development of Wi-Fi in the video area." Potter said that Wi-Fi is currently promoting the development of 802.11ac standards. It is understood that the core technology of 802.11ac is mainly based on 802.11a and will continue to work on the 5GHz band to ensure backward compatibility, but the data transmission channel will be greatly expanded, and the theoretical transmission speed of the new standard is expected to reach 1Gbps at the highest. Smartphones, laptops and tablets will be the three most widely used areas of 802.11 ac.