Its cumulative investment in IoT technology and machine-to-machine infrastructure will reach a staggering $600B by 2020, according to the GSM Association. Perhaps more importantly though, Asian governments are pushing local design companies to focus on the Internet of Things, particularly China. Those ain’t simple, particularly if you don’t want to find yourself on the wrong side of a nasty lawsuit. The boards for low-cost smartphones helped accelerate the shift, but Asian entrepreneurs are now also looking to achieve cost-effective designs for equivalents to the likes of Google Glass and the Oculus Rift 3D headset. However, these definitions are not proving too helpful today (if they ever really were), even where the end-focus a lower-tier company might still be a ‘me too’ product. Once upon a time, PCB design was crudely broken down into three groups: hobbyists, commodity board stuffers, and enterprise users. The middle-ground is shifting, and indeed moving rapidly upward in terms of complexity. Mid-market users are driving richer features and cost competition into PCB design software like never before, largely thanks to the Internet of Things.Īs the focal point for eastern electronics moved from May’s inaugural CES Asia in Shanghai to June’s more established Computex in Taipei, an interesting trend in PCB design became clearer.
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