Articles by ABI Research

2009 will see the introduction of a new class of wireless communications chip that features dual-mode support for both WiMAX and LTE, according to ABI Research. The thrust of demand for such chips comes from those wireless device makers seeking to reduce the number of their SKUs; they will...

The worldwide RFID market will exceed $5.3 B in 2008, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Annual revenue growth will increase over the next five years, accelerating over the mid-term as high-growth, high-volume applications such as supply chain management, ID documents, ticketing and contactless payment drive shipments....

GPS semiconductor vendors are increasingly focusing on GSM handsets as their next target market for GPS chipsets. While until now CDMA handsets and navigation devices have been the main GPS product categories, GSM mobile phones are expected to increasingly feature GPS-chipsets as handset-based navigation and a wide range of...

Ericsson has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent claimed the second and third spots in the company’s new evaluation of worldwide mobile network infrastructure vendors. The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research...

The global market for sub-$20 ultra low cost handsets (ULCH) will be over 330 million units in 2011. A new study from ABI Research finds that over 50% of these handsets will be shipped in the emerging markets of Asia Pacific and the remainder in markets of Africa, Middle...