Global Wimax Market worth $20.4 Billion by 2017 March 2014 | Page 3

Considering future scenarios, it is expected that several smartphones will start incorporating
Mobile LTE, further making the mobile LTE chipsets market in the semiconductor industry
explode in 2013, later paving way for rapid penetration of the LTE technology into all other
consumer electronics. Overall, the CAGR for Mobile LTE chipsets market, for the period of
2012 to 2017, is calculated to be 44.30%, expecting the overall revenue to cross $5.7 billion, by
the end of 2017. In total, combining the revenue of Mobile WiMAX and Mobile LTE, the overall
4G cellular chipset (not considering the complete SoC, only the wireless chipset) revenue is
expected to be slightly more than $1 billion by the end of 2012, for all application sectors. This
number is expected to reach approximately $5.8 billion by end of 2017.
In total, combining the revenue of the five major types of wireless chipsets in the research
study’s scope (Wi-Fi, Wireless Display/Video, Mobile WiMAX, Mobile LTE and ZigBee) the
overall wireless chipsets market revenue in consumer electronics & automation applications is
expected to reach $20.4 billion, growing at a CAGR more than of 20% from 2012 to 2017. On
the shipments front, the overall shipments are expected to reach 4.86 billion units by 2017, at a
CAGR more than 29% from 2012 to 2017 (a higher CAGR than that of revenues, due to
expected reduction in prices of chipsets).
The complete market viewed and analyzed in this report is only for ‘wireless chipsets’ in all the
aspects and chapters. Under the term ‘wireless chipsets’, only four major wireless chipset groups
are considered under the market scope. They are Wi-Fi/WLAN chipsets, Wireless Display/Video
chipsets (all the various types in the market), Mobile WiMAX & LTE chipsets, and ZigBee
chipsets. Besides, these wireless chipsets are considered in only two major application sectors –
Consumer Electronics and Automation, in the market scope.
The market scope does not include any other chipsets - wired communication & connectivity,
processors (application & graphics) and any other ”standalone” wireless connectivity chipsets
(GPS, NFC, GNSS, RF, NFC, GPS, GNSS, WiGig, UWB (Ultra-Wide Band), Bluetooth, etc.).
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