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By Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 10/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Embedded Wi-Fi market undergoing shift to mini PCI card
The market for Wireless LAN or Wi-Fi began changing in 2003, according to In-Stat/MDR, a high-tech market research firm and part of Reed Business Information, as detailed in its report, Wi-Fi Inside: the Embedded Wi-Fi Paradigm, which contains analysis and forecasts of the worldwide Wi-Fi market from 2003 to 2008. In fact, in 2003, PC cards held a quickly eroding 38.8-percent market share after dominating the market with a 58.3-percent market share in 2002. In-Stat/MDR expects that the Wi-Fi Mini PCI card will continue to capture an increasing percentage of the total Wi-Fi market over the next five years.
The report also revealed significant growth in Wi-Fi-enabled notebook PCs, as 55 percent of the 32.1 million notebook PCs shipped in 2003 contained embedded Wi-Fi adapters.
The report includes analysis of products and strategies of major vendors, and can be purchased by visiting www.instat.com/catalog/ncatalogue.asp?ID=167.
