Annual shipments of Bluetooth-enabled devices are projected to reach over 1.4 billion nodes in 2005, up from 56 million in 2001, according to Allied Business Intelligence (ABI), Oyster Bay, NY.

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The rise will represent a vast silicon market opportunity with semiconductor revenues of $5.3 billion by 2005. In that same year, ABI forecasts that cellular mobile handsets will account for less than 47% of all Bluetooth nodes shipped, compared to 65% forecasted in 2002.

As this shift occurs, ABI predicts that Bluetooth will rapidly make its way into PC-centric, consumer electronics and vertical application market segments. The shift will be facilitated by the large number of players targeting the silicon opportunity for Bluetooth solutions and will create a competitive and innovative silicon market.