Life in the Wi-Fi Fast Lane

In-Stat announced that Wi-Fi chipsets will pass a billion units shipped annually by 2012 and devices with the largest revenue growth rate over the next five years will include mobile Internet devices, automotive applications, E-readers and DVD/Blu-ray Disc players.

MPEG IC Revenue to Reach $4.5 billion by 2014

In-Stat announced that the value of MPEG IC revenue will grow to $4.5 billion by 2014. According to the statement, video decoding chips are becoming video decoding systems and standalone video encoding chips have given way to highly programmable system-on-chip (SoC) devices, which are now expanding to include the radio and communication components around them.