• Power optimiser, microinverter markets on a high (21/09/11)
  According to IMS Research, the market for microinverters and power optimisers is forecast to reach Rs.5,829.60 crore ($1.3 billion) in 2015.
  
  
• 802.11ac to dominate Wi-Fi by 2014 (21/09/11)
  IEEE 802.11ac is set to emerge as the dominant Wi-Fi protocol by 2014, according to ABI Research.
  
  
• Wireless test market grows complex (21/09/11)
  According to F&S, the growth of the wireless communication market has boosted the wireless test equipment market, which is expected to exceed revenues of Rs.26,053.81 crore ($5.81 billion) in 2017.
  
  
• India enterprise mobility to hit Rs.4,000 crore (20/09/11)
  According to a Zinnov study, the enterprise mobility market in India has grown exponentially over the past three years and is expected to touch Rs.4,484.30 crore ($1 billion) by mid-2015.
  
  
• Digital mobile radio gathers speed (20/09/11)
  Digital technologies such as DMR, dPMR, NXDN and PDT will speed up the transition to digital mobile radio with its adoption expected to double in the next five years, says IMS Research.
  
  

• Study: Wireless power transmission (20/09/11)
  Contactless charging of portable and mobile equipment, in particular consumer electronics and electric vehicles, will gain adoption over the next decade, says IDTechEx.
  
  
• Smartphone market to surpass 44% by 2015 (19/09/11)
  In-stat research predicts that the growth of smartphone devices will continue in all sizes of US business, but particularly the SOHO smartphone market will increase over 44 per cent from 2010 to 2015.
  
  
• LED packaging industry gains thrust (16/09/11)
  Yole Développement predicts more than Rs.8,968.61 crore ($2 billion) will be invested over the 2011-2016 period in new equipment for LED packaging.
  
  
• Wireless service providers ride the cloud (15/09/11)
  Boom in consumer and enterprise spending related to cloud computing will provide major opportunities for wireless service providers, according to IHS iSuppli.
  
  
• LED lighting set for sweeping growth (14/09/11)
  Technological improvements and legal regulations will facilitate a sweeping deployment of LEDs in lighting applications, according to Frost & Sullivan.
  
  

• Ericson tops LTE macro basestations (13/09/11)
  In-Stat forecasts that the LTE macro base station deployments will reach 15 lakh in 2015, with Ericsson at the top while Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent battle it out for the second spot.
  
  
• Embedded fuels 'intelligent' systems (13/09/11)
  IDC forecasts more than 180 crore units and more than Rs.44.84 lakh crore ($1 trillion) in revenue this year for "intelligent" systems.
  
  
• e-Passports to add more biometrics by 2014 (12/09/11)
  The e-Passport trend is set to continue with the migration from paper or machine readable passports to 90 per cent smart card-based passports by 2016, says IMS Research.
  
  
• NVIDIA tops tablet apps processor ranking (09/09/11)
  NVIDIA's dual-core Cortex-A9 processors and Honeycomb Android design has enabled it to dominate the non-iPad tablet apps processor market in 1Q11, according to Strategy Analytics.
  
  
• Content access demands push NAS growth (08/09/11)
  In-Stat predicts a 36 per cent growth in centralised networked-attached storage until 2015 driven by the constant need for content access due to the flood of portable CE and computing devices in homes.
  
  

• Connected cars show 650% boom (07/09/11)
  The world market for connected cars will grow 650 per cent from 54 lakh units in 2010 to exceed 4.05 crore unit sales in 2017, according to IMS Research.
  
  
• GaAs ICs show upwards growth (02/09/11)
  Operators are implementing networks that rely on smaller, lower power cell footprints to ensure that consumers continue to embrace data applications expanding opportunities for GaAs components.
  
  
• Wearable medical sensors to cross 10 crore units by 2016 (02/09/11)
  ABI Research forecasts that the market for wearable medical sensors will cross 10 crore units by 2016 riding on ultra-low wireless protocols, such as Bluetooth 4.0 and the planned 802.15.6 specification.
  
  
• Indian lighting systems set to boom (02/09/11)
  The Indian lighting systems market will hit Rs.16,500 crore by 2017 driven by funding in infrastructure, setting up of industries, and energy efficient lighting replacements, says Frost & Sullivan.
  
  
• Car use declines, EVs take over (01/09/11)
  Decline in car use owing to fuel and car maintenance costs, increase in car life and car fuel inefficiency drives the market for electric vehicles, according to IDTechEx.
  
  

• PV prices show downward trend (30/08/11)
  European market demands have pushed high conversion efficiency products, however with a conservative outlook by Chinese PV manufacturers, the price of polysilicon continues to slide.
  
  
• LED market shows tremendous growth (30/08/11)
  LED market will grow rapidly with upward trend in LED lighting apps. The revenue for backlight and lighting applications will hit Rs.56,950.67 crore ($12.7 billion) in 2014, forecasts DisplaySearch.
  
  
• Voice, messaging, data plan spending on the rise (29/08/11)
  In-Stat forecasts that the voice, messaging, and data plan spending is set to rise 37 per cent from 2010 to 2015 with continuous upward trend across all sizes of business.
  
  
• Small businesses prefer wireless services (25/08/11)
  Connectivity being crucial to small businesses, spending on wireless services by small businesses will top wireline expenditures by 2012, says In-Stat.
  
  
• Sensors overtake semiconductor growth (25/08/11)
  Databeans forecasts that sensors will overtake the semiconductor market to grow at a CAGR of 10 per cent reaching Rs.85,650.22 crore ($19.1 billion) by 2016.
  
  

• Apple tops mobile PC sales in Q2 2011 (24/08/11)
  DisplaySearch's Q2 2011 mobile PC report indicates that Apple has overtaken HP to top the mobile PC space with a shipment of over 1.35 crore mobile PCs.
  
  
• Emerging standards push Bluetooth adoption (24/08/11)
  According to In-Stat research, expected Bluetooth-enabled device shipments will exceed 200 crore in 2013 by the emergence of two new standards: classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth 4.0.
  
  
• Mobile video calling users surge (23/08/11)
  According to Juniper Research report, mobile video calling users will exceed 13 crore by 2016 representing a penetration of less than 1 in 10 smartphone users at the end of the forecast period.
  
  
• 3D mobile devices breach 14.8 crore by 2015 (23/08/11)
  Research from In-Stat forecasts that the total number of 3D mobile devices will surpass 14.8 crore units in 2015.
  
  
• Smartphones push wireless power market (22/08/11)
  IMS Research expects the smartphone boom to drive fierce competition in the wireless power market in the near term forcing companies to arrive at a de facto standard for interoperability.
  
  

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