Over these next few months, the post-pandemic landscape will begin to take shape. Technologies like 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), IoT, and those enabling smart cities and the smart home will play pivotal roles in reshaping businesses, verticals, and economies around the world.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the global cellular baseband processor market clocked all-time high revenue in 2020, according to Strategy Analytics. Strategy Analytics' research finds that strong demand for 5G fueled the baseband market to $26.8 billion in 2020, up 25 percent year-on-year.

Technology is upending labor markets, and governments, companies, and individuals need to look beyond aggregate numbers and consider how individual professions will be affected. A new analysis quantifies the impact of technology by 2030 in Australia, Germany, and the United States. The report is being released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Faethm.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that the emergence of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud, evolving clinical and administrative/operational needs, and the introduction of new policies and regulations will boost the global medical imaging informatics market.

New technological developments, the rise of new competitive disruptors and changing customer expectations have elevated the imports of accelerating the pace with which institutions bring new value-added services to market. A growing number of executives are taking a hard look at how fintech services, ISVs and SaaS resources can support this “need-for-speed” in a risk-adjusted manner.

Customer service and support leaders are accelerating self-service initiatives to mitigate potential negative impacts of the pandemic, according to Gartner, Inc. More than 40% of customer service and support leaders have experienced increased service contact volumes compared to original 2020 projections due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The evolution towards an autonomous supply chain has already begun, and this transformation coincides and is driven by members of Generation Z (Gen Z), that have just started to enter the workforce, according to Gartner, Inc. Today’s supply chain leaders expect them to be innovators that accelerate supply chain digitalization and pave the way towards hyperautomation.

Continual high volumes of data creation have led to increased data center investments, boosting the need for power and cooling solutions that are environmentally friendly, highly efficient, and reduce the overall cost of ownership. The total investment in DCIS is expected to reach $26.15 billion by 2025 from $16.73 billion in 2019, up at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.7%.

5G slicing is a crucial enabler of new business models and a key concept to empower the potential of 5G. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) can slice their network assets using different criteria such as mobility, security, or traffic types.

The US has lost its status as the place foreigners would most like to work, with Canada now regarded as the top destination. The study shows that the pandemic has had a major impact on people’s attitudes toward work abroad, reducing their interest generally and inclining them toward countries that have done the best job of containing the coronavirus.

Global sales of connected TV devices soared to a new record in Q4 2020, reaching 109.1 million units, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics’ TV Streaming Platforms service. According to the report, Amazon became market leader for the first time with sales of 13.2 million devices and a market share of 12.1%.

Through 2023, demand for robotic goods-to-person (G2P) systems will quadruple to help enforce social distancing in warehouses, according to Gartner, Inc. With G2P systems, the robots deliver the goods to a person who remains in one place. G2P systems are an easy and economical way to not only enforce social distancing, but also improve productivity.

Gartner’s survey revealed 68% of employees would consider quitting their current job and working with an organization with a stronger viewpoint on the social issues that matter most to them. Employees whose employer has taken a strong stance on current societal and cultural issues are twice as likely to report high job satisfaction.

A new study by Juniper Research has found that network operator spend on MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) will grow from $2.7 billion in 2020, to $8.3 billion in 2025, as operators invest heavily in upgrading network capacities and infrastructure to support the increasing data generated by 5G networks.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis forecasts that global healthcare revenues in 2025 will exceed $2.6 trillion, up from $2 trillion in 2020. Catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry has adopted radical new advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and telehealth, along with new business models to support the rapid transformation. It is primed to witness a revolution in healthcare delivery over the next decade.

New research from Parks Associates reports more than 12 million US households have cancelled their home broadband service and use only mobile broadband for their internet needs. Adoption and Perception of Broadband finds there are more than 15 million households in the US that have only a mobile broadband service, which includes more than three million households that have never had a home internet subscription.

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), shipments of traditional PCs (a combination of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) in EMEA will total 96.4 million in 2021. Continuing lockdowns will result in maintained demand for devices that enable work/study/play-from-home use cases throughout the first half of 2021, with the strongest growth on record in 2021Q1 (39.1% YoY).

Global tech market advisory firm ABI Research examined the current Augmented Reality(AR) market and identified 12 AR solution providers in both consumer and enterprise markets that are leading in their area of expertise through novel solutions.

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, 5G comprised less than 1% of IoT connections in 2020 but will rise to 40% of all the overall connections by 2030, as highlighted in its most recent IoT Market Forecast and Analysis report.

One year ago, COVID-19 was declared a global health emergency, impacting all sectors virtually overnight. With the pandemic hitting this benchmark, Forrester analysts are available for interviews to discuss how specific sectors have been impacted these past months worldwide, as well as what 2021 will look like as we keep adjusting to this “new normal.”