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… in 2019. At that time, the total Interface IP market is expected to weight between $900 million and $1 billion. If we want to understand this IP market segment dynamics, we have to look at protocol based products like USB (from USB 1.0 defined in 1996 at 12 Mbit/s to USB 3.1 supporting 10 Gbps data rate) or PCI Express (from PCIe gen-1 defined in 2003 at 2.5 Gbps to the soon to be released PCIe gen-4 at 16 Gbps). Each of these segments represents a close to $100 million market today. MIPI adoption rate has been slow at the beginning in the mid-2000’s, but multiples specifications have been defined since then, creating a real emerging IP market in 2013, weighting as much as the PCIe IP market in 2006. Moreover, the explosion of smartphones shipments and the massive move toward everything “Mobile” has attracted the chip makers and multiplied the opportunities for the IP vendors to sale MIPI IP. Last, but certainly not least, the clear wireless and mobile IC leader, Qualcomm, is also the chip maker most supporting MIPI.

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