Mobile Computing and Consumer Electronics Devices to Drive the Next Wave of Rapid GPS Growth

April 29, 2009 - PRLog -- ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled "GPS - Locating Its Way Into Mobile Devices".

Although cellular handset will continue to dominate shipments of devices with integrated GPS, the next growth spurt will come from mobile consumer electronics (CE) and mobile computing applications, according to a new market research report available now at Electronics.ca Publications. Mobile computing and CE devices will comprise over 100 million units in 2013.

With growing attach rates and market maturity, GPS chipset providers must carefully evaluate which technologies to integrate into single Chip solutions, according to the reoprt. Integration of the RF front-end and base band processor may not be enough. For example, which radio makes the most sense to integrate with, given the single mini-card slot of PC-based platforms?


Other findings from the report include:


•   Although the number of devices shipping with integrated GPS is increasing, the attach rates and the devices shipments have been hampered by the faltering economy.


•   By 2012, there will be more CE devices with integrated GPS shipping than there are stand alone personal navigation devices.


•   Mobile computing holds a lot of promise for GPS with 26 million GPS enabled units shipping in 2013, but there are barriers.  In the netbook segment for example, cost, integrating yet another antenna, only one mini-card slot will inhibit adoption.


•   CPUs must be integrated (ARM, x86, Mips, etc.) to manage the host processor load.


•   Infrastructure radios (802.11, Wi-Max, LTE etc.) are likely candidates for integration.


Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications' web site. View the report: http://www.electronics.ca/publications/products/GPS-%252d...

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