USB SuperSpeed Market to Grow at 178% CAGR through 2015

The transition to SuperSpeed USB is occurring more rapidly than previously anticipated, due primarily to quicker integration of the new standard into core logic chipsets. Yet, low-/full-speed and high-speed USB will remain relevant for the near future as well. Low-/full-speed will remain the interface of choice in mice and keyboards, and high-speed will remain in many PC peripheral and CE applications. A new In-Stat research forecasts that USB will grow at 7.4 percent through 2015 with most of that growth being fueled from SuperSpeed devices, which will have an impressive CAGR of 178 percent over that same time period.


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“Mobile phones are a key driver for USB overall, and will play a role in the adoption of SuperSpeed USB,” says Brian O’Rourke, Research Director. “In 2010, USB was found internally in over 1.2 billion mobile phones, with high-speed USB dominating. In addition, the number of USB ports in phones increased to over 100 million units. The first SuperSpeed USB phones won't hit the market until late 2013, but they will be accompanied by a new SuperSpeed connector for phones that will succeed the current micro-USB port found in today's phones.”

Other details from the report include:
• More than 3.5 billion USB devices shipped in 2010.
• High-speed USB is still the most popular USB interface, comprising over three-quarters of USB device shipments in 2010.
• Mobile phones are a key driver for USB overall, and will play a role in the adoption of SuperSpeed USB.
• The price of SuperSpeed silicon will begin to approach the cost of high-speed USB, on both the host and device side, over the next two to three years.

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