In 2014, the market for consumer electronic devices supporting WiFi will reach 2.6 billion units

The Strategy Analytics Connected Home Terminal Research Service released the latest research report "Embedded WLAN (Wi-Fi) Consumer Electronics Terminal: Global Market Forecast". The analysis pointed out that by 2014, the market for consumer electronic devices supporting the Wi-Fi function in the global market will exceed 2.6 billion, and the retail sales in the same year will exceed 250 billion U.S. dollars.

Peter King, Director of Strategy Analytics Connected Home Terminal Services, commented: “Consumer demand for 'ubiquitous Internet' will drive the adoption of Wi-Fi on mobile Internet terminals. Even in regions where 3G or 4G technologies are already available, With the rapid spread of Wi-Fi hotspots and home networks, Wi-Fi will continue to be the user's preferred technology for accessing the Internet, although the current Wi-Fi-enabled terminals are mainly portable products, but by 2014, Wi-Fi-enabled Internet TVs will be The Blu-ray player will be the main product in the family room."

Although the terminal market that supports Wi-Fi until now is still dominated by computing terminals and game terminals, Wi-Fi will be adopted by more types of terminals by 2014.

The detailed forecast model for this analysis covers all major emerging wireless home and portable terminal segments, including: digital cameras, MP3 and digital media players, handheld game consoles, Wi-Fi handsets, mobile internet terminals, consumer products PCs, netbooks, tablet PCs, portable navigation devices, flat panel TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players and recorders, set-top boxes, digital video recorders, digital media adapters, game consoles, digital audio systems, digital photo frames, and network-attached storage terminals.