Netbooks, MIDs and Mobile CE Research Service

This Service Covers the Following Technology and Market Issues:

  • Chipset competition
    • Processor and mobile chipset vendors have new battlegrounds in MIDs and mobile CE devices.
  • Device competition
    • PC vendors, handset vendors, and consumer electronics vendors will come from different directions to compete in the MID space.
  • Mobile operator support
    • Mobile operators will have to become more flexible in how they charge subscribers for MIDs and especially mobile CE devices.
  • Relevance of MID and mobile CE market
    • The market for MIDs and mobile CE devices will be small compared to the handset market, but combined will become significant enough to be relevant.
  • The Ultra-Mobile Device (UMD) space
    • Comparison of UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC), netbook, and MID markets

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Perspectives

Laptop computers are too bulky for travel. Smartphones are small, underpowered, and offer a limited user interface for some common tasks. Enter the netbook. The explosion of the netbook category is rapidly eclipsing the opportunity for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) evolving from the smartphone. Enabling a range of consumer electronics to use 3G/4G mobile broadband is another opportunity. From digital cameras to electronic book readers, the purchase, consumption and sharing of digital content is enhancing the way we communicate.

The Mobile Consumer Electronics Research Service delves into the chipset and vendor landscape for netbooks, MIDs and connected mobile consumer electronics devices. In addition to cornerstone research reports and timely analysis briefs, quarterly market data studies are published to track movements in segmentation, shipments and revenues.

Forecasts in this Service

Companies

  • AMD
  • Apple (PA Semiconductor)
  • ARM
  • Marvell Technologies
  • Via Technologies