More than 1 billion Wi-Fi chipsets expected to ship in 2012

During 2006, the Wi-Fi semiconductor market shipped just under 200 million Wi-Fi chipsets, and reached over 500 million chipset shipments cumulatively, according to ABI Research. The research firm indicated that around the middle of 2008, the industry will have passed the 1 billion mark for cumulative chipset shipments.

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