Into the white-hot demand for wireless chipsets(B)

Expected, Microsoft’s Zune music player, portable media players in the field of the first application of Wi-Fi capabilities for aspire 3000 battery, portable media player markets, including portable digital audio players. End of this year is expected to portable media player sales will reach 190 million units last year, sales of portable media players and 1.7 million units. In-Stat noted that Microsoft’s portable media player market share will not occupy too much, the market is occupied mainly by Apple is expected to Microsoft, in its media player with Wi-Fi capabilities of the initiative will encourage other portable media players manufacturers in its products to configure Wi-Fi capabilities. For example, Apple a1175 plans to launch later this year to support Wi-Fi enabled iPod. However, In-Stat estimates that in 2007, more than 5% of the portable media players will have Wi-Fi capabilities.

In-Stat, said the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth integrated into a single chip may also be of great help to promote Wi-Fi in mobile phone applications. The analyst firm noted that the chip maker Marvell, Broadcom and Texas Instruments have announced a single-chip Wi-F / Bluetooth chipset, while the Texas Instruments and NXP two Bluetooth mobile phone chip market leaders have introduced a single-chip Wi-Fi and inspiron e1405 battery and single-chip Bluetooth device package. In-Stat says shipments of dual-mode Wi-Fi/cellular phones are expected in 2007 will reach 27 million, six million last year, integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chipsets will help to promote Wi-Fi in the mobile phone applications.

Although based on the draft 802.11n standard Wi-Fi home wireless access equipment only in 2006 as a whole Wi-Fi routers for VGP-BPS8, gateways and home access device shipments in a little more than 2 percent, but, In-Stat expects This year, the percentage will increase to 15%. The analyst firm believes that this was mainly due to less than 100 dollars this year, the draft 802.11n wireless router will be more widely used, and chipset manufacturers to launch a small volume of 802.11n chipsets, will further promote its application. However, other analysts are being asked consumers not to use the draft 802.11n products, in order to avoid wireless standards as early as 2008, need to finalize the hardware vgp-bps2 upgrade.