Consumer electronics and telephony will account for about half of expected revenue for WLAN chips in 2008, according to a new report from In-Stat/MDR: The research firm envisions more Wi-Fi capabilities being built into consumer electronics products as well as telephones, including those that integrate Wi-Fi with cellular.
Some Wi-Fi chip makers are already moving in the direction of home electronics. Vixs Systems introduced a reference design with drivers for Microsoft Windows Media Center and new MPEG encoders. The system is designed to improve video streaming over Wi-Fi.