Bluetooth Wireless Chips Catapult to 1.4 Billion Units by 2005.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2000 The manufacture of Bluetooth-enabled equipment will also exceed 1 billion units by 2005. Bluetooth-enabled equipment will surface by the end of 2000 and will escalate es·ca·late v. es·ca·lat·ed, es·ca·lat·ing, es·ca·lates v.tr. To increase, enlarge, or intensify: escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf. v.intr. in 2001, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Cahners In-Stat Group, a high-tech market research firm. Bluetooth is a short-distance wireless technology that spans telecommunications, personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. , networking, industrial, automotive and consumer electronic devices, allowing voice and data connections up to 10 meters (30 feet), or to 100 meters with an amplifier. Bluetooth frees users from having to wrestle with numerous cords and gives the corporate and consumer worlds access to easy synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. and mobility during a cordless connection, and opens up many possibilities for establishing quick, temporary (ad-hoc) connections with colleagues, friends, or office networks. "The earliest Bluetooth adopters will be high-end mobile phone and notebook PC business users," said Joyce Putscher, director of In-Stat's Consumer & Converging Markets and Technologies Service. This emerging technology will initially surface in mobile phones, notebook PCs, PC cards and adapters, and access points. According to In-Stat, consumers are expected to create significant demand for the technology in order to realize benefits such as establishing a wireless connection to the public switched telephone network, printing from a different room in the house without a home network, and synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. contact information and calendars among various productivity devices and with family members. In-Stat has also found that: -- Innovation and research and development will be needed to cut down on the cost of Bluetooth solutions, enabling integration into many more products. Some of the ways to cut down on the cost will include less expensive packaging, one-chip solutions that combine radio and baseband functions, and solutions that transfer some of the work to a host processor. -- The first mobile phones and notebook computers A laptop computer that weighs in a range from five to seven pounds. The term originated when laptops were routinely more than 10 pounds, and those that became lighter were placed in a special "notebook" category. In practice, notebook computer and laptop computer are synonymous. offering Bluetooth will hit the market this fall, while desktop PCs equipped with the technology will debut in 2001. -- Chip shipments will pick up in the second half of 2000. Bluetooth will really begin to sink its teeth into the market in 2001. By 2005, the market opportunity for Class 1, 2 and 3 Bluetooth solutions will approach $5 billion. The report Bluetooth 2000: To Enable the Star Trek  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. Generation
(MM0009BW) forecasts Bluetooth-enabled equipment and the associated
opportunities for radio and baseband solutions from 1999 through 2005.
In addition, it provides an overview of Bluetooth technology, the
application areas, equipment vendors, semiconductor players, and IP and
protocol stack The set of protocols used in a communications network. A protocol stack is a prescribed hierarchy of software layers, starting from the application layer at the top (the source of the data being sent) to the data link layer at the bottom (transmitting the bits on the wire). players.
The report also supplies detailed six-year forecasts for radio and baseband functional solutions and host-supported solutions as well as seven categories and 24 sub-segments of Bluetooth-enabled products. To purchase this report or for more information, please call Courtney McEuen at 480/609-4533; cmceuen@instat.com or visit http://www.instat.com/catalog/cat-mm.htm#mm0009bw to purchase online. The report price is $3,695 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . Cahners In-Stat Group (http://www.instat.com/) covers the full spectrum of digital communications Transmitting text, voice and video in binary form. See communications. research from vendor to end-user, providing the analysis and perspective that allows technology vendors and service providers worldwide to make more informed business decisions. |
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