Yiru Zhong

Beecham Research, the IoT analyst and consulting firm, announced the appointment of Yiru Zhong as principal analyst to broaden and strengthen the company’s program of international market research and analysis in the Internet of Things (IoT) market.

Growth in the Internet of Things (IoT), will accelerate in 2017 with the commercialisation of narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), as is clearly shown by increasing launches, investments and partnerships, say industry analysts Frost & Sullivan.

Qualcomm, the smartphone chipmaker, has acquired NXP Semiconductors for US$47 billion in the largest semiconductor acquisition of all time, says Yiru Zhong, senior industry analyst, Digital Transformation, Frost & Sullivan. (Also see: Qualcomm focuses on IoT as it agrees to buy chipset maker NXP Semiconductors for US$47bn.)

Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) investment across vertical markets will outpace Europe’s average gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the forthcoming years. Compared to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s nominal GDP forecast of 2.2% for the 2014-2016 period, total ICT spending by industries in the region is expected to increase at a much