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• Home Network Technologies Will Coexist, Not Compete, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-07-29

  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Consumer electronics products no longer exist in a vacuum: increasingly they are linked to each other via a number of short-range radio technologies. CE vendors, faced with a series of overlapping use-cases, network areas, standards, and technologies, need to understand the applications best suited to each, and...

  Tags: ABI Research, Bluetooth, electronics, MARKETING, network, radio, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Microwave Tubes Still Have a Vital Role to Play in RF Power, but GaN Looms as an Emerging Threat, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-06-24

  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Microwave and millimeter wave high-power vacuum electron devices VEDs represent a modern technological continuation of one of the original and basic building blocks of RF electronics technology. Based on original vacuum tube valve principles that date from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, these present-day...

  Tags: ABI Research, electronics, microwave, millimeter, NETWORKING

• Networking Connections Go from Nice-To-Have to Necessary in Consumer Electronics, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-03-26

  New York -- According to ABI Research, in coming years home network connections will no longer be an optional feature for many consumer electronics products, as digital content, social networking and IP services delivered through embedded network connections will be demanded by consumers in the devices they buy. The leading...

  Tags: ABI Research, consumer electronics, electronics, network

• Volume techniques coming to printed electronics

  - 2008-02-01

  NEW YORK -- Printed electronics hold the potential to be a game-changer in a wide variety of end markets, according to a new study from ABI Research (abiresearch.com). Innovative printing techniques have the capability to facilitate high-volume, low-cost electronics components manufacturing, which will enable applications not previously addressable with traditional...

  Tags: ABI Research, electronics, FINANCE, printing, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, technique

• Printed Electronics Will Enable a Diverse Set of New Markets, Says ABI Research

  - 2007-12-26

  NEW YORK -- Printed electronics hold the potential to be a game-changer in a wide variety of end markets, according to a new study from ABI Research. Innovative printing techniques have the capability to facilitate high volume, low cost manufacturing of electronics components, which will enable new applications that were...

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• Rapid Shift to 802.11n in Routers and Gateways Will Spill over into Consumer Electronics, Says ABI Research

  - 2007-08-10

  NEW YORK -- As Wi-Fi-enabled consumer electronics proliferate, the growth of 802.11n in connected entertainment devices will outpace that of other networking technologies, according to a study by ABI Research. Demand from consumers and device manufacturers to unleash video entertainment around the home will create a need for high-speed networking...

  Tags: ABI Research, consumer electronics, electronics, router

• Sprint Nextel/Clearwire Collaboration Is Good News for Broadband-Enabled Mobile Consumer Electronics, Says ABI Research

  - 2007-07-31

  NEW YORK -- In the not-too-distant future, many digital cameras, media players, and portable game devices will access the Internet from anywhere with mobile broadband coverage. The recent announcement by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire of a partnership to provide mobile WiMAX services to most of the US population should be...

  Tags: ABI Research, broadband, Clearwire Corp., collaboration, consumer electronics, electronics, mobile, mobile broadband, Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications

• ABI Research Studies Secure Processors for Consumer Electronics: From Zero to 60 Million in Six Years

  - 2007-05-10

  NEW YORK -- In today's consumer electronics products, hardware IC features play little role in protecting copyrighted content. Popular digital rights management schemes that depend on secure software implementations such as Windows DRM, Fairplay, and AACS are routinely targeted and hacked. However, processor companies are enhancing their architectures and embracing...

  Tags: ABI Research, consumer electronics, electronics, processor

• Mobile Broadband-Enabled Consumer Electronics Will Reach 50 Million Shipments by 2012, According to ABI Research

  - 2007-04-12

  NEW YORK -- No sooner has the market for consumer electronics devices incorporating Wi-Fi begun to gain real traction than another, based on high-speed connections via 3G cellular technologies or mobile WiMAX, is starting to take shape. According to a new study from ABI Research, portable consumer electronics - digital...

  Tags: ABI Research, broadband, consumer electronics, electronics, mobile, mobile broadband

• ABI research sees increased momentum for media server technology across PC, set-top box, and consumer electronics market in 2006.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)

  - 2006-11-01

  The media server market is gaining significant momentum as large end-user platform vendors release new products across the different product categories for digital distribution and content shifting both in the home and over the Internet. ABI Research believes that a media...

  Tags: ABI Research, electronics, PC, server, set-top