Major Shift in Embedded Wi-Fi Market"> Major Shift in Embedded Wi-Fi Market

Looks like WiFi is going inside, or rather is becoming embedded in most new PCs and handhelds. Beats those add-in WiFI cards that bent or got lost. Some stats to consider from In-Stat/MDR:

* The market for embedded Wi-Fi clients (including mobile PCs, PDAs and phones) will grow at a 66.2% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) to 226.0 million units shipped in 2008.

* After five years of healthy growth since its mainstream commercialization, the worldwide Wi-Fi hardware market (i.e., network infrastructure and adapters) finally surpassed $1.0 billion in (4Q 2003) quarterly revenues.

* There has been a significant growth in Wi-Fi-enabled notebook PCs, as 55.0% of the 32.1 million notebook PCs shipped in 2003 contained embedded Wi-Fi adapters.