Bluetooth SIG Announces Record Growth in South Korean Device Qualifications Spurred by Support from LG Electronics, Samsung
- South Korean Companies Lead Global Expansion of Bluetooth Product Shipments to Over Three Billion in 2014
“The rapid growth of Bluetooth products we are currently seeing is really just the beginning,” said Suke Jawanda, Bluetooth SIG CMO. “It’s a little-known fact that the strong commitment to Bluetooth by leading South Korean companies like LG Electronics, the newest member on our Board of Directors, and Samsung Electronics is driving worldwide production and distribution of Bluetooth and the ultra power-efficient Bluetooth Smart technology. In fact, of our approximately 20,000 member companies around the world, Samsung and LG are the two highest producers of Bluetooth products as measured by qualified Bluetooth designs listed with the SIG.”
Based on record Bluetooth and Bluetooth Smart growth trends by South Korean companies, the Bluetooth SIG fully expects continued growth in the consumer electronics market, along with accelerating expansion in wearables, sports and fitness, home automation, home entertainment, automotive, health and medical markets.
“A global leader in consumer electronics and home appliances, LG believes that Bluetooth, and in particular Bluetooth Smart technology, is one of the key energy efficient wireless systems connecting the modern world,” said Min-soo Lee, chief research engineer at LG Electronics and Bluetooth SIG board member. “The flexibility of Bluetooth and Bluetooth Smart allow us to incorporate them into our products in a variety of innovative ways. These impressive technologies assist LG in providing consumers with the ultimate user experiences.”
Samsung Electronics said, “Our company has had a long relationship with Bluetooth and sees it as an important part of our connectivity strategy. Increasingly consumers expect their electronics to work seamlessly with one another and Bluetooth is the perfect technology to achieve this integration. We expect our strong growth trend to continue due to the value Bluetooth and the power efficiency Bluetooth Smart bring to our products.”
Research firm ABI Research, Inc. has projected that approximately 2.5 billion Bluetooth enabled products will ship in 2013. That annual shipment number is expected to nearly double to 4.5 billion annual shipments by 2018. In total, some 10 billion Bluetooth enabled products have been shipped since the technology’s inception. ABI projects that in the next five years, the cumulative shipment figure will triple to 30 billion, with much of that expansion the result of increasing product shipments from South Korean companies.
For more information on LG Electronics, please visit: www.LG.com and www.LGnewsroom.com.
For more information on Samsung Electronics, please visit: http://www.samsung.com/sec/ http://www.samsung.com/sec/socialmedia.
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Eric Choi
Technical Marketing Manager, APAC & KOREA
Bluetooth SIG
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