Smartphones, Tablets, and Notebook PCs to Grow at 25.7 percent CAGR Through 2015: In-Stat

A new In-Stat (News - Alert) research forecasts that smartphones, tablets, and notebook PCs would grow at 25.7 percent CAGR through 2015 as compared to 8.7 percent for the overall mobile market.

In-Stat research’s report, “Mobile Graphics: Smartphones Beat the Drum to Which All Markets March,” provides a comprehensive look at the graphics, or GPUs, with a strong emphasis on the integrated or intellectual property (IP) solutions that are available for mobile consumer electronic (CE) devices.

The forecasts in this report include five-year mobile graphics TAM by mobile device platform and CE device forecasts for cellphones, smartphones, notebook PCs, tablets, digital cameras, MP3 players, personal navigation devices, e-readers, handheld game consoles, digital camcorders, portable media players, and mini-note PCs (netbooks) among other things.

“The technology driver of all these smart devices is the mobile technology, because it represents the largest and fastest growing segment of the entire electronics market,” said Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist, in a statement.

McGregor said that even in PCs, where increasing performance was once the mantra, CPU vendors are now focused on the performance efficiency of mobile computing and using the resulting products to drive advancements in other forms of computing including desktop PCs, servers, and embedded applications.

He said that the innovation of the mobile market is being driven by four key factors: richer content, network access for communications and content, increased bandwidth to enable this access, and new technologies.

“These four factors form a self-sustaining circle of innovation that feeds from and enables each factor,” said McGregor.In-Stat in research found that only 40 percent of the mobile SoC TAM will use at least one dedicated GPU in 2011.

It is important to note that both the number of SoCs using GPUs and the number of GPU cores per SoC is increasing throughout the forecast period.

According to the research, the mobile SoC TAM is expected to exceed 3.1 billion devices in 2015.

Intel (News - Alert) and Imagination lead the GPU market because of their dominance in PCs and smartphones, respectively.  

Combined, the two are projected to comprise 61.3 percent of the GPU technology mobile serviceable available market in 2011.

In-Stat in its report noted that smartphones will increase from just under 20 percent of total handsets in 2010 to 43 percent in 2015.

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