Word: bluetooth
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...Vision Thing: "I envision a world where people will not want to buy an electronic device that is not Bluetooth enabled...
...Their start-up, Cambridge Silicon Radio, is now the global leader in chipsets used for Bluetooth, a technology that allows a whole range of devices to communicate wirelessly within a 10-m radius. The privately-held British company - which has raised $65 million in funding and does about 60% of its business in Japan - has already shipped more than a million Bluetooth single-chip devices, many of which are showing up in IBM, Sony, Compaq, Fujitsu and NEC laptops, Sony cell phones and Hewlett-Packard printers...
...Hodgson boasts that 50% of the products on the Bluetooth industry's global website have Cambridge Silicon Radio's chips inside...
...sure, market analysts have downgraded their forecasts for Bluetooth over the last year, due to the global economic slowdown as well as problems with device interoperability, interference from other radio technologies and fears over the security of the technology...
...analysts at Frost & Sullivan in London still believe Bluetooth has strong growth potential, forecasting that more than a billion Bluetooth-enabled devices will be shipped by 2006, generating $330 billion in revenues. If that prediction comes true, Cambridge Silicon Radio will really boom...