Bluetooth to Be Worth US$2.7 by 2006

Despite being directly impacted by the effects of a downgraded mobile phone market forecast, the Bluetooth market will be strong, according to a report from In-Stat/MDR. The research firm reports that, despite delays of some very large, planned 2001 chipset shipments from December to the first quarter this year, Bluetooth chipsets will surge from 10.4 million units in 2001 to 690 million units in 2006, a five-year 132% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), with silicon revenue rising to US$2.7 billion in 2006. Manufactured Bluetooth-enabled equipment will climb to 644 million units over the same period. Though the mobile phone market will still outshadow all other applications, headsets will make a major Bluetooth play this year, as well as PDAs.

"With more products becoming available on the market, the next hurdles are to bring more user applications and high-rate Bluetooth to market," said Joyce Putscher, director of In-Stat/MDR's Converging Markets and Technologies Group. "Some chat applications are available, with more coming to market that will be available as software updates. Others offer unique opportunities to coordinate meeting information, communicate, or share files with those around you using an intuitive easy-to-use interface."

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Posted to the site on 15th May 2002