IDTechEx news stories

IDTechEx says higher frequency deployments, such as mmWave devices and very different station types such as small cells, present their own technological evolution and, with it, thermal challenges. 

Technology research company IDTechEx has found COVID-19, especially testing capabilities, drove the point-of-care biosensors industry to dramatically expand.

This market will impact many different industries and future innovations will continue its growth in the wearables market.

IDTechEx explains cities increasingly, and massively, depend on water technology as sea levels rise and for other reasons.

An IDTechEx report forecasts that the global market for 3D printing materials will be worth $18.4 billion in 2030.

According to a new IDTechEx report titled ‘Smart Cities Emerging Materials Markets 2021-2041’, information and computer technology is now secondary to new materials, which are valued as a $400 billion market.

2020 will go down in history for the year of the global pandemic, but also for the rise of innovative digital technologies.

"Virtual, augmented and mixed reality products have continued to receive high levels of funding and investment during the 2010 decade. This is predicted to continue into the next decade,” the firm explains.

With improvements in technology and design, augmented reality and mixed reality will continue to grow to a market of over $20Bn by 2030. 

The wearable sensor industry will be worth $2.5 billion in 2020, having tripled in size since 2014.

IDTechEx has released research that looks at the growth of the wearables market and the growing innovation in health and medical technologies.

 5G is one of the largest market opportunities for the coming years, with large scale roll-out of infrastructures and rapid adoption of 5G devices and services.

The global EV charging infrastructure market will reach $40 billion per year by 2030.

It is a rapidly growing market with compound annual growth rates of up to 18% in certain sub-segments.