The world market for embedded panel IPCs, estimated at almost $200 million in 2008, is forecast to exceed $250 million in 2013.

A new report from IMS Research focused on the IPC market shows that the world embedded-panel IPC market is projected to grow at almost double the percentage rate of the standard-panel IPC market.

Senior Analyst, Mark Watson, comments “the trend towards IPCs, which do not rely on fan cooling, will continue throughout the forecast period.  This is largely due to customer demand for increased reliability whilst also maintaining performance and functionality levels, which are now attainable through new processor technologies.  Embedded IPCs show the fastest revenue growth; as advantages in size, cooling and reliability attracts a new customer base whilst also encouraging existing users to move from other IPC types.”

However, “a factor likely to blunt the growing use of embedded-panel IPCs to 2013, especially in control-based applications, will be the increasing adoption of single-board computers.  This competing product type, offering much similar functionality to a complete IPC but in a smaller form factor, is often perceived as being more reliable and power efficient.”