By: Gunnar Forsgren

Gunnar Forsgren — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:25:19 +0000

Price depends a lot on manufacturing costs. We will begin to see price optimized Bluetooth radio chips tailored specifically for the iBeacon role.
The majority of the iBeacon devices sold today are based on grossly over-competent Systems On a Chip devices that contains numerous circuitry that remain unused in a pure iBeacon use case but cater for various more complex IO controller scenarios. By scaling down to the chips even arrive preprogrammed/certified for the use case saves costs for the iBecon manufacturer. But it all depends on volume. As long as the over-competent chips go in huge volume even a scaled down chip will not be able to compete on price until they also reach volume.

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By: Gunnar Forsgren