Due to the outsized installed base in mobile PCs and home networks, flexibility, and adult environment, Wi-Fi has been esteemed as the “Swiss army knife” technology for the consumer electronic (CE) market reports In-Stat. According to Victoria Fodale, In-Stat (a high-tech market research firm) analyst, digital TV will be the second largest category of CE stationary devices shipping with Wi-Fi. She said further that the sheer volume of digital TV shipments will make it a strong market, despite a relatively low Wi-Fi attach rate.

Latest additional discoveries by In-Stat:

More than 294 million CE devices with Wi-Fi shipped in 2007

Compound annual growth rate for CE Wi-Fi devices through 2012 will be 26%

By 2011, cellular/Wi-Fi handsets will surpass mobile PCs as the large category of Wi-Fi devices.