NPD Group Acquires In-Stat
The NPD Group announced that it has acquired In-Stat, an analyst research company focused on the mobile internet and digital entertainment industries.
The NPD Group announced that it has acquired In-Stat, an analyst research company focused on the mobile internet and digital entertainment industries.
In-Stat announced it forecasts that over one hundred 3D TV channels will be available worldwide by 2014.
In-Stat announced it forecasts that, by 2015, there will be one billion web-enabled, stationary consumer electronics devices in operation worldwide.
In-Stat announced it forecasts that shipments of 802.11ac-enabled (Gigabit Wi-Fi) devices will reach one billion by 2015.
In-Stat announced it forecasts that hard disk drive shipments will reach over 1 billion units by 2014.
In-Stat announced that it expects high definition Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Set-Top Box (STB) revenues to hit nearly $6 billion by 2014.
In-Stat announced it expects that nearly 14 million SuperSpeed USB 3.0 devices will ship in 2010, rising to over 1.7 billion by 2014.
In-Stat announced that it expects over one million mobile phones and 350 million consumer electronics devices equipped with HDMI ports to ship in 2010.
In-Stat announced that the video entertainment industry must experiment with new Over-the-Top (OTT) video services and ways of doing business in order to offset declining revenues.
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.
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.