Report Highlights
- The value of the worldwide market for conformal coating materials, equipment and spares reached $8.1 billion in 2013 and should grow from $9 billion in 2014 to $12.2 billion in 2019, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3% between 2014 and 2019.
- The worldwide market for embedded technology was valued at $142.8 billion in 2013. The market is expected to grow at a projected CAGR of 5.4% over the next five years to total $152.4 billion in 2014 and $198.5 billion by 2019.
- The global digital home entertainment systems market reached nearly $147.4 billion in 2012 and $150.9 billion in 2013. This market should reach $176.3 billion in 2018, at a CAGR of 3.2% over the five-year period, 2013 to 2018.
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Research Reviews from BCC Research provide market professionals with concise market coverage within a specific research category. These Research Reviews include portions of several market research reports that were published in 2014 and are an efficient way for market professionals to keep up with the general market developments of 2014.
Please note that page references in the text are to pages in the original, complete report, and do not reflect the actual page numbers in this Research Review.
This 2014 Information Technology Research Review includes excerpts from the following reports:
- IFT009F Global Markets for Conformal Coatings in Electronics.
- IFT016E Embedded Systems: Technologies and Markets.
- IFT069B Digital Entertainment in the Home: Technologies and Global Markets.
- IFT073C Antennas for Systems and Devices: Technologies and Global Markets.
- IFT107A Wearable Computing: Technologies, Applications and Global Markets.
- IFT108A Optimizing Networks: Global Markets for Small Cells and Carrier Wi-Fi.
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