Embedded hardware growth will be spectacular, at the rate of 14.2% on 2009.
High-tech industry will achieve higher levels of device integration while reducing costs, size and complexity. Chip designers and manufacturers constantly have pushed to develop of technological, physical and design constraints. The embedded systems concept is one significant trend in this context. Embedded software will grow from about $1.6 billion in 2004 to $3.5 billion by 2009, at an average annual growth rate of 16%.
Developments within the semiconductor industry constitute one of the most interesting subplots of the rapid innovation in the high-tech industry.
