Summary: Booming smartphone and tablet sales are doing a lot
more than just pushing traditional PCs to the side.
The supply
chain for mobile devices alone is poised to become more valuable than factories
serving the entire consumer electronics market, based on a new report from IHS iSuppli.
According to the market
research firm on Friday, revenue from OEM factories worldwide that produced
"media and PC tablets" and "3G/4G cellphones" (which
analysts defined as " a category dominated by smartphones) will ring up to
$354.3 billion by the end of 2013.
But factories for consumer tech
at large are only expected to deliver $344.4 billion in revenue this year. If
that happens, it would mark the first time ever that global factory revenue for
mobile devices alone surpasses the rest of the spectrum.
Randy Lawson, a senior
principal analyst covering semiconductors at IHS, hinted in the report that
these findings shouldn't be all that surprising by remarking "sales growth
for CE products has languished in the doldrums."
Just think about how many
gadgets have been combined and then replaced by the smartphone: pocket cameras,
handheld audio and video recorders, and MP3 players, just to name a few.
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