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How proven architectures can energize the long tail of the IoT market.

Feb. 12, 2018 – It took 40 years for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone to go from 10% to 40% global saturation. The smartphone repeated that market penetration in less than a tenth of the time. But even the success of the smartphone is being eclipsed by the lightning pace at which Internet of Things (IoT) products are being born, with Gartner predicting that 95% of all technology products will be IoT-capable by 2020. So, the race is on for companies to bring out new intelligent, connected and service-oriented products, with different regions jostling to be at the forefront of this innovation.

Today, Asia is leading the charge towards the vision of a trillion devices. Through the desire to advance regional economies in places such as China, Japan and South Korea, the pace of innovation is rapidly escalating. Figures from Arm suggest twice as many new IoT projects may be coming from Asia Pacific compared to the US and Europe combined.

The evidence comes from the first full statistics from the Arm DesignStart program, which provides companies with free custom chip design technologies on which they can start to develop their products. The companies are a mix of new-to-market start-ups and established manufacturers looking to revitalize their products roadmaps.  As an estimated 80% of the products now classified as IoT class devices run on Arm technologies, the DesignStart figures serve as a barometer for what is happening in the global market.

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