The Las Vegas CES event points mainly to new consumer products that users and channels can expect to see later this year, but those looking further ahead are taking stock of the building blocks for those technologies.
A key pointer is the level of Bluetooth at the show. Now 15 years old, this standard has become a core part of short-range wifi and connections, and is set to be used in the expected wave of wearables and Internet of Things products being worked on in the next year or so.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has produced a graph (see below) of shipments which shows its growth over the last decade or so. What CES brought out was a group of chip-makers offering the next wave of low-power, high-performance and multi-function devices that will measure and control things we can only dream of today.
Chinese companies such as Actions Semiconductor now have 64-bit quad chips at high speeds, competing with the likes of Nvidia and Samsung.
This gives developers the power and by thinking ahead, we can expect to see their products at CES 2016 and 2017.
