As the new year rolls in, industry experts have given a slew of predictions about technology trends that we are likely to see to be in the upswing this year.
In its recent blogpost, analysts at ABI Research peeked at their crystal ball and listed down six technologies that are expected to gain major traction in 2020.
These are:
- 5G wearables: “While smartphones will dominate the 5G market in 2020, 5G wearables won’t arrive in 2020, or anytime soon,” says Stephanie Tomsett, 5G Devices, Smartphones & Wearables analyst. “To bring 5G to wearables, specific 5G chipsets will need to be designed and components will need to be reconfigured to fit in the small form factor. That won’t begin to happen until 2024, at the earliest.”
- Quantum computing: “Despite claims from Google in achieving quantum supremacy, the tech industry is still far away from the democratisation of quantum computing technology,” according to Lian Jye Su, AI & Machine Learning principal analyst. “Quantum computing is definitely not even remotely close to the large-scale commercial deployment stage.”
- Self-driving trucks: “Despite numerous headlines declaring the arrival of driverless, self-driving, or robot vehicles, very little, if any, driver-free commercial usage is underway beyond closed-course operations in the United States,” says Susan Beardslee, Freight Transportation & Logistics principal analyst.
- A consolidated IoT platform market: “For many years, there have been predictions that the IoT platform supplier market will begin to consolidate, and it just won’t happen,” says Dan Shey, vice president of Enabling Platforms. “The simple reason is that there are more than 100 companies that offer device-to-cloud IoT platform services and for every one that is acquired, there are always new ones that come to market.”
- Edge will not overtake cloud: “The accelerated growth of the edge technology and intelligent device paradigm created one of the largest industry misconceptions: edge technology will cannibalize cloud technology,” says Kateryna Dubrova, M2M, IoT & IoE Analyst. “In fact, in the future, we will see a rapid development of edge-cloud-fog continuum, where technology will complement each other, rather than cross-cannibalize.”
