According to IDC, the global wearables market sees 82.3% Y-o-Y growth in Q4 2019, with shipments reaching a high of 118.9 million devices, a "stunning" increase largely brought about by the proliferation of hearables.
In fact, the analyst says, hearables make no less than 55.3% of the entire Q4 2019 market. Other popular categories also showing growth on the quarter are watches (15.3% Y-o-Y) and wristbands (17.7% Y-o-Y). Wrist-worn device make 43.8% of the Q4 2019 market, down from 68.6% in Q4 2018, and while the category is dropping in terms of share, shipments are up by 16.3% Y-o-Y for the same period. Shipments for full-year 2019 total 336.5m units, an 89% increase from the 178m units shipped in 2018.
As the only two AMD notebook APUs featuring Ryzen 9 branding, the two processors pack eight cores and 16 threads, together with 8 cores of integrated Vega graphics. The standard H model offers 45W operation with 3.3GHz base clock and 4.4GHz boost, while the HS runs at 35W allowing for 3GHz clock speed able to boost up to 4.3GHz.
As the coronavirus (aka Covid-19) affects over 100000 people across 80 countries, Futuresource predicts poor results for the global CE industry in Q1 2020, with supply chain chain disruptions leading to difficulties in product delivery.
