Summary
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) continued to live up to its name in 2004, showing up in a number of product segments, including PCs, PC peripherals, consumer electronics and communications. A number of types of USB serve these various markets, including low-speed, full-speed, high-speed, On-The-Go, and the newest entrant, Wireless USB.
In 2004, PCs and PC peripherals have seen continued transition to high-speed USB. The consumer electronics segment has seen continued adoption of both full- and high-speed USB, especially in digital cameras and set top boxes. In the communications segment, mobile phones began to adopt full-speed USB in large numbers in 2004.
Wireless USB will allow the USB standard to operate wirelessly via an Ultra Wideband radio Phy and MAC. It promises to have an effect particularly on those portable USB-enabled devices that make frequent ad-hoc connections, such as portable digital audio players, digital still cameras and digital camcorders.
This report contains five-year forecasts for the penetration of low/full-speed USB, high-speed USB, USB On-The-Go and Wireless USB 1.0 into 44 separate applications. Five-year forecasts for average selling prices for USB host controllers, peripheral controllers, hub controllers, and Wireless USB 1.0 solutions are provided. Past history of penetration forecasts back to 2002 is also included, in addition to brief profiles of major USB silicon and IP suppliers.
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