Samsung offers a peek into mobile trends of the future

Future IT has three devices, or form factors; mobile, tablet and TV. I like that!

A post from VentureBeat by Dean Takahashi has the whole story. Here is a part:

Samsung offered a window into the future with a broad discussion of the forces driving the smart mobile device market and the different fundamental components it is making to serve those markets in the future.
The U.S. division of Korea’s Samsung Electronics took a deep dive into its mobile technologies today at its local U.S. chip headquarters in San Jose, Calif. today, highlighting everything from the coming flexible screens for tablet computers to dual-core processors for smartphones. The company’s marketers tried to present the idea that no one is better positioned for the future of mobile electronics than Samsung. The company competes with other integrated technology companies such as Sony, LG, HP, and Apple — but few can boast of the technologies it showed off today.
Samsung’s bet on mobile stems from the expectation that the mobile internet will have ten times as many devices as desktop computers. We’re well on the way to that notion. And Samsung espouses the view of Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, who said that some companies will win big in the rapid growth of the mobile internet and others will wonder what just happened.
The number of smartphones is expected to exceed the number of PCs shipped this year. Feature phones were still the biggest part of the market in 2010, accounting for 970 million units sold compared to 310 million units for smartphones. But by 2015, smartphones will dominate, with 1.0 billion sold compared to 890 million feature phones, according to data from sources including Display Search, Business Insights, Gartner and Samsung.
About 20 million tablet computers were sold in 2010, most of them iPads. About 200 million netbooks and notebooks were sold during the year, and 150 million desktop PCs were sold, for a grand total of 370 million units. By 2015, the numbers will be 160 million desktops, 320 million netbooks and notebooks, and 230 million tablets, for a total of 710 million units.
One of the big data’s mobile data usage is video. Cisco’s data shows that the web’s video data is growing 40 percent a year, with 30,800 petabytes of video data transferred each month in 2011 growing to 55,600 petabytes a month in 2013. Much of that will happen on mobile networks, as video is already 41 percent of the load during peak mobile data traffic times.
That, in turn will put a lot of demand on cloud computing, as web-connected data centers in the “internet cloud” will have to feed data to all of the mobile devices. Higher speed wireless networks such as Long-Term Evolution(LTE) will accelerate the explosion of data and the demand for storage and computing.
That, in turn, will drive demand for low-power “green” technologies, since electricity costs are at least a quarter of the costs of data centers. The world’s data centers account for 0.2 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, while airlines account for 0.6 percent. If all 32 million of the world’s servers used energy-efficient memory chips, the savings on carbon emissions would be like taking out 18 major coal electricity plants.
And that is why Samsung keeps investing in multibillion-dollar chip factories and new generations of machinery that can create smaller and smaller patterns on silicon wafers. Each time the chip maker moves to a new generation, it can make chips 50 percent smaller, 30 percent faster, and 10 percent more energy efficient.