WrappingupPhase1oftheMobile.PDF

/technology Wrapping up Phase 1 of the Mobile Innovations Forecast New data bolster the general direction of innovation over the next five years With this article, PwC concludes Phase 1 of Mobile innovation is one of four market By Raman Chitkara, its Mobile Innovations Forecast, in which we forces in this framework that are redefining Global Technology have examined trends in the performance customer demand, expectations and business Industry Leader of core components of mobile devices and opportunity for technology companies. The infrastructure. Based on new data for these others are cloud computing, social networking components, our fundamental assessment and the emergence of intelligent devices. is that the rate of performance increases for Individually, each is turning the rules of the these seven enabling components of mobile broader technology sector upside down. innovation—memory, application processor, Collectively, they are co-mingling in ways that storage, infrastructure speed, device speed, paint a forward-looking picture that is starkly, imaging and display technology—is expected even radically, unlike the past. to decelerate only slightly between 2011 and 2016, relative to 2007 to 2011. Our coverage of the vast mobile ecosystem is an ongoing project comprising four phases. Phase