Broadband adoption in Germany trails badly behind the rest of Europe according to �Europe Surges Ahead on Broadband,� the latest research from Strategy Analytics. From the company�s Broadband Media & Communications service this report reveals that Germany has the lowest level of broadband ownership out of 14 European countries. Only 24 percent of German homes will have broadband by the end of 2005, compared to 56 percent in the Netherlands, Europe�s leading broadband market. �Germany�s fragmented and highly-regulated cable industry is a key factor in the constrained growth of broadband,� said Martin Olausson, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics. �With limited competition in Germany, Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) has no real incentive to implement an aggressive growth strategy for broadband.� This report also notes that after the Asia-Pacific market, Europe has now overtaken North America as the second largest broadband market in the world. It also predicts that total broadband household penetration in Western Europe will reach 63 percent by 2010, by which time 93 percent of online households will use broadband to access the Internet.
For years, security intellectual property (IP) existed in the semiconductor world as something of an afterthought; bolted on at the tail end of chip design cycles and treated as a compliance checkbox. That era is decisively over. According to the latest market study by ABI Research, the Security IP sector is entering a sharply accelerated growth phase, driven by a shift in how OEMs think about trust, compliance, and embedded protection. The message from the market is unambiguous: integrated, certification-ready security is no longer optional infrastructure; it is a competitive imperative. The explosion of connected devices across industrial, automotive, consumer, and data center environments has expanded attack surfaces. Security IP Market Development Meanwhile, regulatory frameworks worldwide are tightening, demanding demonstrable security assurance rather than self-attested claims. And looming on the horizon is the quantum computing threat, which is already forcing forward-thinking c...