Date: 17/01/2011

Proprietary low-power wireless IC shipments to grow at CAGR of >20% during 2009-15

IMS Research forecasts due to demand in application areas such as automotive devices and wireless PC peripherals, proprietary low-power wireless IC shipments to increase at a CAGR of over 20% for the period 2009-2015; yet by 2015, they are projected to account for less than half of low-power RF IC shipments, as momentum grows behind key standardized solutions.

Lisa Arrowsmith, Senior Market Analyst at IMS Research, explains, "There is no single 'killer-app' that is the same across all low-power wireless solutions. Different technologies are being driven by a wide range of existing and emerging applications, which vary in importance across the forecast period. For example, in 2009, smart metering gateways represented over half of the market for ZigBee ICs; however, by 2015, smart meter gateways are forecast to decline in their proportion of all ZigBee-enabled devices, as ZigBee-enabled HAN and home health monitoring devices start to be shipped in higher volumes".