IHS: over 8bn connected devices globally, Chromeca
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June 10, 2016
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There were over eight billion connected devices globally at the end of 2015, according to IHS.
The analyst group’s Techology Connected Device Market Monitor found that there were over 8.1 billion connected smartphones, tablets, personal computers, TVs, TV-attached devices and audio devices at the end of last year. The number equates to an average of four per devices per household across the globe.
Smartphones accounted for half a billion new devices to the market year-on-year. IHS predicts that there will be almost 10 times as many smartphones as tablets globally by 2020.
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