Vice president Intel Labs Fan Jesse (Jesse Fang) on Chinese trade exhibition of electronics and electronic components, said portable device can be divided into three main segments: multifunction solutions with a cost of $ 350-500, and above average falling within the range of $ 100-350, and devices with a cost of less than $ 100 that can perform no more than one primary function.
With 75% of the profits generated by the market of portable devices into the pockets of hardware manufacturers. The remaining part is shared between the semiconductor industry (3%), service providers (18%) and suppliers of data analysis and maintenance (4%), .
He also said that after the new trend in the smartphone industry will become wearable devices and the Internet Things. If the average annual growth rate of the smartphone market in the period 2013 to 2017 is estimated at 24%, the wearable devices for the same period was 123%.