Service providers and enterprises continue to find new revenue opportunities in Wi-Fi as the number of installed access points ramps up to nearly 400 million commercial and enterprise units by 2019, according to analyst firm ABI Research.
The advent of 8K broadcasting in Japan for the 2020 Olympics is expected to spur a new round of resolution increases, even though shipments have not yet started in serious commercial volumes.
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.4 million units in the second quarter of 2015, a 9.5-percent decline from the second quarter of 2014, according to preliminary results by research firm Gartner.
According to research firm IDC, total cloud IT infrastructure spending (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) will grow by 26.4% in 2015 and will reach $33.4 billion, accounting for a third of all IT infrastructure spending, up from 28.1% in 2014.
Thailand and Myanmar stood out as the only two emerging markets to record growth. In Thailand, local mobile operators partnered with smartphone vendors as part of a rushed initiative to convert 2G network users to the more advanced 3G network before September 2015.
The total worldwide PC monitor market shipped more than 29 million units in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), a decrease of -12.0% compared to 1Q14 and 1.5% less than forecast, according to IDC.
