In-Stat is out with a new report, this time examining the mobile processor market. Unsurprisingly, the research company thinks that smartphones will continue to be the innovation driver in the mobile processor technology, particularly as they get more complex to integrate multiple cores, GPUs and baseband modems. On that note, the prediction is that companies will ship almost 4 billion mobile processors by 2014.
Other findings from the report include:
- Nearly 75% of all mobile processors will be multi-core in 2014, and an even higher percentage will have integrated baseband.
- The trend toward integrated baseband modems will become a critical differentiator for mobile processors over the next few years.
- Tablets represent the fastest growing market segment for mobile CPUs with a CAGR of 123.6% from 2009 through 2014.
- Cellphones, including feature phones and smartphones, represent the largest opportunity for mobile processors today and for the foreseeable future.
And as usual, you can get more information about In-Stat’s report from their website.