RPM-A: Who will win the battle for the Gigabit Wireless in your home: WirelessHD, 802.11n, wireless USB, or UWB?

The extraordinary growth in the HD multimedia market, during the last few years, has created an eminent need for truly seamless interconnectivity of the various home entertainment appliances, broadband content streaming machines and personal computing devices. According to DisplaySearch, the worldwide sales of HDTV topped US$100B for the first time in 2007 with 200M units. Meanwhile, set-top box revenue reached 41M units in 2007 according to Instat. IDC projected a large leap in worldwide laptop shipments, from 108 million in 2007 to 148.2 million in 2008. Strategy Analytics estimated that 30M units of Blu-ray players will be sold in 2008, out of which 20M units are Play Stations 3 by Sony. Apple reported that since the launch of iStore, between July and September, more than 100M iPhone software applications (US$40M sales) have been downloaded - an unprecedented adoption rate by any measure. The common theme that all these trends share is a massive increase in the amount of digital content and the desire to share them seamlessly.