Mobile technologies index

55% CAGR (2007-11)

41% CAGR (2011-15)

To measure the rate of improvement in key enabling technologies, the first part of PwC's four-part Mobile Innovations Forecast framework, we developed the Mobile Technologies Index, a broad composite of seven enabling components that underlie the power of the mobile device to sense, analyse, store and connect information. The seven components are as follows:

Relative progress of components

The interplay of market and industry forces

In this first release of the Index, we forecast a combined compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 41% between 2011 and 2015. This is less than the 55% CAGR of the Index between 2006 and 2011, but still represents large enough improvements in the underlying components to anticipate many new mobile value propositions.

*Not included in the index but a key enabler of mobile innovation

Mobile technologies index articles

Published	Title	Article
05/09/2013	Mobile operating system: Smartphones will just get smarter	View PDF
03/05/2013	Enabling devices to offer users more natural interaction	View PDF
1/17/2013	Image sensor: Steady growth for new capabilities	View PDF
12/13/2012	Storage: Quenching the thirst for more	View PDF
11/09/2012	Memory: The ever-predictable DRAM path	View PDF
10/02/2012	Application processors: Driving the next wave of innovation	View PDF
09/12/2012	Infrastructure speed: Watch capital investment in 4G for the next inflection	View PDF
07/25/2012	Device connectivity speed: One half of an equation	View PDF
07/25/2012	Making sense of the rapid change in mobile innovation	View PDF