AI in Smartphones: Premiumization Towards Saturation
To get a sense of where AI is heading when it comes to consumer electronic products, it is informative to consider AI in smartphones, as the smartphone market has already started to saturate, and so the uptake of AI is necessarily limited by this saturation.
- To get a sense of where AI is heading when it comes to consumer electronic products, it is informative to consider AI in smartphones, as the smartphone market has already started to saturate, and so the uptake of AI is necessarily limited by this saturation.
- As such, out of this 20% of global sales, smartphones with AI coprocessing account for approximately 17%, and smartphones without AI coprocessing account for 3%.
- The share of smartphone chipsets that incorporate AI coprocessing may take some years to increase to the level of saturation, but trends suggest that this movement is inevitable, with the growth of AI in smartphones providing a valuable model for AI adoption in other consumer electronic products.
- IDTechEx's market research report, " AI Chips for Edge Applications 2024-2034: Artificial Intelligence at the Edge ", answers the major questions, challenges, and opportunities the edge AI chip value chain faces.