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Consumer technology trends are once again coming from many directions. Sudden shifts in customer preferences, macroeconomic conditions, and technological innovation can quickly catalyze entirely new product strategies for vendors. And within each device category, vendors must account for buying behaviors across different demographics, regions, and technology segments.

Competitive & Market Intelligence Sharpen positioning, deliver actionable insights, and support key stakeholders. Executive & C-Suite Drive organizational success, capture growth, and mitigate risks with rapid access to strategic intelligence. Marketing Boost engagement, repurpose compelling content, and generate qualified leads with research-driven thought leadership. Product Strategy Accelerate…

Nearly half of the world's passive cellular antennas are now more than 7 years old.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) data center expansion is fueling a new wave of demand for inference platforms as enterprises push Generative AI (Gen AI) into real-world production environments. Although foundation model training has dominated AI workload capacity, to date, inference is expected to become the larger power consumer over time.

ABI Research forecasts that more than 32,000 wind farms will be operational globally in 2026. Wind farms are growing both in the number of sites and power capacity. Increasingly, wind farm operators are building Gigawatt (GW)-scale sites that ultimately will go toward increasing the share of clean energy utilized in a country.

Telecommunications industry executives are tasked with solving multiple generations of challenges at once. Operators are still monetizing 5G while simultaneously preparing for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-native networks, cloud-native infrastructure, enterprise connectivity, network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and eventually 6G. At the same time, geopolitical uncertainty and changi…

Competitive & Market Intelligence Sharpen positioning, deliver actionable insights, and support key stakeholders. Executive & C-Suite Drive organizational success, capture growth, and mitigate risks with rapid access to strategic intelligence. Marketing Boost engagement, repurpose compelling content, and generate qualified leads with research-driven thought leadership. Product Strategy Accelerate…

The Software-Defined Automation (SDA) market leaders are increasingly determined by the extent to which Artificial Intelligence (AI) can drive cost savings. According to ABI Research , SDA technology revenue attributable to industrial AI will increase from about US$0.5 billion in 2025 to more than US$5 billion by 2035.

Chipset sales continue to break records, but several paradigm shifts will determine who gets the biggest slice of the semiconductor industry pie.

Competitive & Market Intelligence Sharpen positioning, deliver actionable insights, and support key stakeholders. Executive & C-Suite Drive organizational success, capture growth, and mitigate risks with rapid access to strategic intelligence. Marketing Boost engagement, repurpose compelling content, and generate qualified leads with research-driven thought leadership. Product Strategy Accelerate…

It’s no secret that sustained demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had a major impact on cloud infrastructure. The electric grid was not originally designed to accommodate extreme AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC)-based processing.

ABI Research is conducting its new State of RFID Survey in September 2026 to assess the use of Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology across enterprise verticals. This invaluable feedback will help uncover emerging RFID use cases, deployment challenges, investment areas, and lucrative opportunities for technology providers. If you’re a technology vendor operat…

The global edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) chipset (inference & training) market size is forecast to increase from US$34.4 billion in 2026 to US$96 billion in 2031, according to ABI Research’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Edge AI market data published in 2Q 2026. The forecast is segmented by architecture, use case, workload, region, and vertical to deliver a granular overview of…

I'll be heading to Chicago from June 22 to 25 for Automate 2026 to see firsthand how the industrial automation landscape continues to evolve. The last time I attended the event (2024), many conversations centered on digital transformation, connectivity, and early Artificial Intelligence (AI) experimentation.

After moderating several panels at Asia Tech x Singapore in late May, ABI Research’s Singapore team is now making the trip to Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2026 from June 24 to 26. The team will use their time to meet with the top innovators in the telco AI, space tech, and consumer tech industries to assess how vendors are meeting enterprise pain points.

Author: Mark Lydon, Senior Content Marketing Manager ABI Research’s Digital Security team recently published its Government and Healthcare ID Cards market data. The forecast includes 132 datasets, providing a deep, data-driven analysis of where digital ID technology vendors need to allocate product development and marketing resources. The study breaks down the market opportunity by application an…

Contributing Analysts: Adhish Luitel , Research Director & Ryan Wiggin , Principal Analyst