Will IoT’s growth hit a chipset wall?
Forecasts of the number of IoT devices that will be deployed in the foreseeable future indicate healthy growth, but there are very wide variations and the “experts” employ different timeframes. For example: 18 billion by 2022; 26 billion by 2020; 75 billion by 2025 and 125 billion by 2030. And once upon a time Ericsson and Cisco were forecasting 50 billion connected devices by 2020. The latter stat was probably responsible for the sky-high expectations for IoT’s potential, says Bob Emmerson.