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Millimeter Wave Markets Poised for Explosive Growth in 2020-25

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- According to a new study by Thintri, Inc., systems based on millimeter wave technology are creating markets that will soon reach billion-dollar levels. The report, "Millimeter Waves: Emerging Markets," analyzes markets in telecommunications, imaging, consumer and automotive, defense and security and other sectors and finds that several are undergoing rapid growth, while others are in the early stages of market entry.

A few are about to witness the entry of game-changing technologies, products and services that, combined with a more open regulatory environment, will transform markets that up to now have been modest.

Millimeter wave (MMW) radiation, that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum generally defined as 20 GHz to 300 GHz, has gained commercial traction in the past decade or so.

Today, MMW imaging is established in airport and other checkpoint security applications, and markets are rapidly growing in inventory control and loss prevention, where systems can quickly scan employees leaving a manufacturing facility to prevent theft. Imaging systems already installed at malls, hidden behind walls, can automatically track suspicious persons who may have concealed weapons or bombs.

Technological evolution is bringing about imaging systems that are more capable, less costly, smaller, lighter and more portable, and take less training to use. This evolution is about to dramatically reduce the cost of such imaging systems, allowing their adoption in a much broader range of venues that will include courthouses, concerts, stadiums, schools, dance clubs and many, many others.

MMW systems are radically transforming telecommunications as well. E-band links are quickly capturing markets in backhaul, where they can be deployed quickly and at a small fraction of the cost of deploying optical fiber, but offering near-fiber data rates.

Millimeter wave links combined with small cell networks may be the only viable solution to the bandwidth challenges facing today's telecom industry as it establishes next-generation 5G networks. 4G networks already approached the theoretical limit on how much data can be squeezed into a given band. Experts predict that in just a few years, wireless data transfer volumes will grow by more than 1,000, with demand for wireless data transfer rates at 10 to 100 times faster than is practical today.

One of the most exciting frontiers in telecommunications is fixed wireless Internet access, where MMW systems are about to facilitate a game-changing market shift. As wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) move to offer MMW-based wireless Internet access across broad geographic regions, the artificial barriers that once served to geographically separate the various access suppliers, like cable and phone companies, will break down.

The result is a Wild West scenario where a large number of players, large and small, compete to offer consumers and businesses access at up to gigabit data rates at low cost. At that time the distinction between fixed and mobile Internet access will largely disappear, as consumers demand broadband access anytime, anywhere, on any device.

The unique properties of millimeter waves lend them to a host of other markets, including satellite Internet access, automotive radar, consumer multimedia, defense and security, manufacturing process and quality control, medical diagnosis, munitions guidance, security perimeter radar, and monitoring of chemical processing and pipelines.

The Thintri market study, "Millimeter Waves: Emerging Markets, makes use of extensive, in-depth interviews with industry executives, business and market development managers along with government and academic researchers.

The report provides a survey of the current state of the art in millimeter wave technology, an assessment of potential applications in terms of their commercial viability, discussion of market development and forecasts for individual markets from 2020 to 2025.

Report information: http://www.thintri.com/Millimeter-waves-report.htm

About Thintri, Inc.

Founded in 1996, Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com), is a full-service consulting firm, based in New York and directed by J. Scott Moore, Ph.D.

Thintri's services include business intelligence, market research, technology transfer and technology assessment, and in-depth, off-the-shelf market studies on promising emerging technologies. Topics of focus have included communications, aerospace, medical and industrial imaging, materials and coatings, semiconductor devices, photonics, plastic electronics, manufacturing, industrial logistics, security and defense, thermal management, energy, and a host of others.

For more information, visit http://www.thintri.com or call 914-242-4615.

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Thintri Report Highlights Market Opportunities in Titanium

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. -- Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com) has announced a new market study that analyzes markets for metallic titanium. The report predicts expansion of titanium markets into new applications with corresponding growth in overall market volume.

According to the report, "The Titanium Age: Markets, Opportunities and New Processes," an update of Thintri's earlier 2016 study, the industry has gone a long way to resolve the price and supply instabilities of the past. Those instabilities acted to prevent the expansion of titanium into new, promising markets. The automotive sector, for example, is one where titanium could bring about significant performance and efficiency increases, but high prices and frequent fluctuations in price and supply presented too much uncertainty to allow for adoption in many large industrial markets.

Titanium is an abundant resource, with the highest strength-to-density ratio of any metal, is essentially nonmagnetic, and is highly resistant to corrosion, even in hostile environments like salt water. Furthermore, it is highly biocompatible, making it useful in medicine, as in hip and other joint replacements, and surgical instruments. Titanium is a critical material in aerospace and has become well established in trucks and heavy vehicles, marine structures and ships, chemical processing and general industry. A significant share of the available titanium supply today is used to form steel alloys.

Titanium has enormous potential in a large number of markets, many of them new, but market growth has been hobbled by high costs, volatile prices, processing difficulties, supply issues and industry-wide inefficiencies. Much of the constricting of supply has been attributable to cycles in aerospace demand as well as titanium's use in steel production, both of which are huge sources of titanium demand which are also subject to general economic conditions.

These cycles have often led to extraordinary runups in prices, where some more than doubled in a single year, and some users were simply unable to obtain the titanium they needed. The volatility dampened enthusiasm for titanium in new applications and the instability made it impossible to cultivate new markets.

Today, after several years of sluggish demand for many commodities, titanium is rebounding. As the aerospace sector has worked through its stockpiled titanium, demand has returned to reasonably healthy levels as capacity for most products has levelled off. More importantly, industry consolidation has led to greatly improved efficiency in manufacturing, which promises to restore some stability in price and supply. As a result, emerging markets, particularly medical, in many cases are now even outpacing traditional markets.

At the same time, this apparent stability is threatened by the new international trade picture. Russia and China, both important sources of titanium, are also potential subjects of tariffs and/or sanctions that could upend the global titanium industry. How, and whether, these issues are worked out will have a significant impact on titanium markets.

Throughout all this, a number of low cost processing and manufacturing technologies have continued development that promise to produce titanium (commercially pure and alloyed), potentially at greatly reduced cost. These processes, some of which are already commercialized, will significantly reduce costs in extraction, machining, welding and manufacture of titanium, and help the industry maintain more stable supplies.

The promise of supply stability and lower prices can be expected to lead to the capture of new markets, bringing titanium to a broad range of new applications. Low cost production processes may also provide a substantial investment opportunity.

Thintri's report, "The Titanium Age: Markets, Opportunities and New Processes" analyzes current markets for titanium and the present industry landscape, and projects market activity through 2024. Latent demand, i.e., demand that will be created by newer forms of low-cost titanium in established and new applications, is also calculated and projected through 2024. More information can be found at http://www.thintri.com/.

About Thintri, Inc.:

Founded in 1996, Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com), is a full-service consulting firm, based in New York and directed by J. Scott Moore, Ph.D. Thintri's services include business intelligence, market research, technology transfer and technology assessment, and in-depth, off-the-shelf market studies on promising emerging technologies.

Topics of focus have included communications, aerospace, medical and industrial imaging, photonics, materials and coatings, semiconductor devices, manufacturing, industrial logistics, security, thermal management, energy, and a host of others.

For more information, visit http://www.thintri.com or call Dr. Moore at 914-242-4615.

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Eye Tracking Technologies Create Extraordinary Market Opportunities in Gaming, Medicine, Market Research, Automotive and More

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com), has announced a new market study that predicts explosive growth in markets for eye tracking. According to the report, "Market Opportunities in Eye Tracking, 2018," an update of Thintri's earlier 2015 study, eye tracking is penetrating markets as diverse as market and advertising research, medical and even psychiatric diagnosis, website and online content development, automotive safety systems, gaming, virtual/augmented reality, piloting drones and a host of others.

Some of these applications will undergo explosive growth, leading to billion-dollar markets within a decade.

Eye tracking, the following and recording of a person's gaze as it moves from one point to another, has long been used as a means for severely disabled people, such as quadriplegics, to access technology by controlling computers and other devices with eye movement. Because of the stringent reliability and accuracy requirements involved, such systems have been costly, limiting the use of such tools in new applications.

Today, however, the advent of less expensive, less bulky and non-invasive systems is bringing eye tracking to a wide range of entirely new applications, from gaming to medicine and automotive safety. Already, eye tracking is used to control smartphones and detect fatigue and sleepiness in operators of heavy machinery.

Web-based platforms combined with common webcams used for eye tracking will allow even the smallest companies to conduct global market and advertising research studies with hundreds of participants spread all over the world, all for just a tiny cost compared with traditional methods.

Eye tracking is a fairly mature technology. Most major technical issues have been resolved and development efforts are mainly focused on development of new applications. All that is standing in the way of explosive market growth is customer awareness and education.

According to the Thintri study, most segments will undergo healthy growth while some markets are poised to reach billion-dollar levels within a decade. Promising markets like automotive, where the technology could save lives by alerting drivers who are distracted or drowsy, or gaming, where a first-person shooter could aim and fire with unprecedented speed and accuracy, could quickly gain millions of users.

Thintri's report, Market Opportunities in Eye Tracking, 2018, projects extraordinary growth for eye tracking markets, in several cases exceeding a billion dollars per year within a decade. The remarkable versatility and utility of eye tracking leads to the conclusion that many promising applications of eye tracking have probably not yet even been investigated.

More information can be found at https://www.thintri.com/eye-tracking-technology-report-2018.htm.

About Thintri, Inc.:

Founded in 1996, Thintri, Inc. is a full-service consulting firm, based in New York and directed by J. Scott Moore, Ph.D.

Thintri's services include business intelligence, market research, technology transfer and technology assessment, and in-depth, off-the-shelf market studies on promising emerging technologies. Topics of focus have included communications, aerospace, medical and industrial imaging, photonics, materials and coatings, semiconductor devices, manufacturing, industrial logistics, security, thermal management, energy, and a host of others.

For more information, visit http://www.thintri.com or call 914-242-4615.

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Minor Metals Rebound, with Growing Opportunities

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A new market study by Thintri, Inc., shows how minor metals, having endured a period of slack demand for many commodities, are now facing a brighter future with improving markets. In some cases the metals face rapid growth in demand in some of today's hottest markets while others will track the overall economy, and a few will see declining demand.

"Minor" metals are anything but. Many are critical materials in aerospace, defense, electronics, photonics and telecommunications, medicine and general industry. Like any large, diverse group of materials, their properties, applications and market opportunities vary widely.

Minor metals are generally defined as those metals that are not sourced directly but rather occur as byproducts of sourcing base metals.

The Thintri study covers the minor metals excluding rare earths, precious metals and platinum group metals:
* Antimony
* Arsenic
* Beryllium
* Bismuth
* Cadmium
* Chromium
* Cobalt
* Gallium
* Germanium
* Hafnium
* Indium
* Lithium
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Mercury
* Molybdenum
* Niobium
* Selenium
* Silicon
* Tantalum
* Tellurium
* Titanium
* Tungsten
* Vanadium
* Zirconium

Some minor metals, such as chromium, magnesium, titanium and tungsten, are critical constituents in heavy industry, while others, such as indium and cobalt, are fueling today's hottest markets. A few, including mercury and arsenic, face steadily declining markets and increased legislative restriction due to their toxicity.

For each minor metal, the Thintri study discusses sourcing and production; health, safety and nutrition issues; applications; and market analysis, including market volume and pricing forecasts going out to 2024.

About Thintri, Inc.:
Founded in 1996, Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com), is a full-service consulting firm, based in New York and directed by J. Scott Moore, Ph.D.

Thintri's services include business intelligence, market research, technology transfer and technology assessment, and in-depth, off-the-shelf market studies on promising emerging technologies. Topics of focus have included medical and industrial imaging, optical networks, materials and coatings, semiconductor devices, manufacturing, industrial logistics, security, thermal management, energy, and a host of others.

For more information, visit http://www.thintri.com or call 914-242-4615.

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smoore@thintri.com

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Platinum Group Metals Face Rising Prices, Tightening Supplies and Uncertain Markets

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Platinum group metals (PGMs), namely, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium, are undergoing a period of market flux and in some cases, steep and rising prices, according to a new report published by Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com).

The same materials are threatened in the longer term by competing materials and alternative technologies in some of their largest markets.

The report, "Platinum Group Metals: Issues and Opportunities," is a 2018 update of an earlier Thintri study. The report discusses the sourcing, production, applications and markets for PGM and opportunities in improved recycling and recovery as well as emerging alternative materials.

PGMs are critical components in the catalytic converters in motor vehicles, in disc drives, oil refineries, glass manufacturing, medical devices and implants such as pacemakers and dental crowns, and a host of other applications. Some are also highly valued in jewelry and investment. PGMs are rare and generally quite costly.

Growing worldwide demand is fueled by a range of factors including accelerating motor vehicle sales in the developing world, a rising industrial sector in many regions and a growing consumer preference for white metals in jewelry. As demand exceeds available supplies, prices have risen accordingly. Furthermore, complex market forces have produced fluctuations in PGM prices, creating market confusion. For example, recently, palladium prices have occasionally exceeded that of platinum, an unusual situation for a metal that has traditionally been seen as a cheaper alternative to platinum.

Industry analyses indicate that known PGM reserves are probably sufficient for more than another 100 years at present rates of production and consumption. However, that figure drops to 10 - 15 years if rising demand, particularly from growing industrialization and automobile sales in emerging economies, is taken into account. Before PGM reserves are fully depleted, however, prices will rise dramatically as extraction becomes more difficult.

PGMs are subject to competing pressures, which will play out over the coming years. Platinum, palladium and rhodium are used in the catalytic converters found in virtually every internal combustion-based automobile. The rapid growth of auto purchases in emerging economies, Asia in particular, is placing pressure on PGM supplies and prices. On the other hand, the rapid emergence of fully-electric cars and a growing commitment by some nations and auto makers to establish electric car markets will have a serious long term negative effect on demand for the relevant PGMs. The continuing slump in the oil sector will also impede the major PGM markets, while at the same time, demand from industrial catalysts and the jewelry sector will track economic growth. The lesser PGMs, like osmium and ruthenium, will continue to occupy niche markets.

Things are further complicated by new technologies already on the market, and some approaching commercialization, that will alter the picture just as dramatically through cheaper alternative materials and improved recovery.

While some PGM applications, such as jewelry, investment and electronics, are relatively immune from substitution at this time, most PGM applications are vulnerable to replacement by nanotechnology-based solutions available at a fraction of the cost. Such alternatives will partly or completely replace the PGM content in critical applications like catalysts in the automotive, energy and industrial sectors.

Other new methods will eventually, in effect, bring new supplies to market through improved recovery. New techniques for recycling catalytic converters and similar products are able to recover far more PGM content than was possible earlier. In addition, once-inaccessible PGM content in copper and nickel mine waste and slag can now be exploited. The availability of literally mountains of mine waste and slag throughout western North America and other parts of the world will soon set off a "gold rush" to exploit those resources.

Today, platinum group metals are at an extraordinary intersection of market forces that will likely create a period of extraordinary volatility before things stabilize.

The Thintri market study, "Platinum Group Metals: Issues and Opportunities," analyzes PGM markets and provides forecasts out to 2022.

About Thintri, Inc.:

Founded in 1996, Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com), is a full-service consulting firm, based in New York and directed by J. Scott Moore, Ph.D.

Thintri's services include business intelligence, market research, technology transfer and technology assessment, and in-depth, off-the-shelf market studies on promising emerging technologies. Topics of focus have included medical and industrial imaging, optical networks, materials and coatings, semiconductor devices, manufacturing, industrial logistics, security, thermal management, energy, and a host of others.

For more information, visit http://www.thintri.com or call 914-242-4615.

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Short Range Wireless Technologies Create New Markets

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- According to a new study by Thintri, Inc., an array of short range wireless (SRW) technologies is about to remake a range of markets with inexpensive, easy to use products available to nearly every consumer or business. The report, "Market Opportunities in Short Range Wireless," explores short range wireless technologies and the markets they address. A number of these technologies have already created billion dollar markets, while others are just beginning, but most are poised for dramatic growth in the next few years.

"Short range," in this case, refers to technologies that are largely (but not exclusively) limited to a radius of about 10m, or 30 feet, roughly the size of a house or small building.

Platforms like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are already well established, with annual device shipments in the billions of units. Their markets are expanding as new applications continually surface. The more recent development of protocols like ANT, 6LoWPAN, Z-Wave and others, along with plunging hardware prices, has set up conditions for a rapid expansion of many new commercial and consumer markets. The proliferation of platforms has meant that some markets are served by several protocols, initiating fierce competition among them. The result will be explosive market growth in applications that in many cases barely exist today.

Some of those technologies will revolutionize the conduct of commerce. For example, near field communications (NFC) is enabling mobile or "smart" wallets that allow a smartphone to perform the normal actions of credit cards and eliminate the use of cash. Beacons will offer retailers and manufacturers unprecedented and precise awareness of their customers' behavior.

The "smart home" is an arena where a broad array of commercial products is already available for HVAC and security, but which is also poised for dramatic growth in new applications. Platforms like Insteon, Bluetooth/BLE, ZigBee, Z-Wave and others will enable smart lighting systems, garage doors that automatically open on the approach of the user's phone, outdoor motion sensors that can distinguish between pets and humans, and systems that can feed pets on schedule, among many others. Some new products will enhance the safety of elderly people and others living alone.

Similarly, SRW technology is remaking healthcare and medical services. In hospitals, wireless sensors can eliminate the tangle of cables that prevents patient mobility while also providing immediate warning of critical events such as cardiac arrest. In the operating room during surgery, elimination of wires can significantly improve patient safety and efficiency of medical staff.

The real revolution in medical care brought about by SRW technology, however, will be the unprecedented increase in mobility and effectiveness brought about by small, inexpensive wireless sensors in medical body area networks (MBANs) that will allow many patients to stay home while providing continuous, 24 hour monitoring of a broad range of physiological parameters.

The platforms are available and markets waiting. In some cases the only barrier to market growth is that the hardware needs to be less costly; in others, there simply needs to be greater customer awareness.

Short range wireless technologies offer extraordinary opportunities. Depending on the market, growth is already well underway, is starting now, or will start soon.

From platforms and applications that are already well-established in billion-dollar markets, to new protocols and markets that are only now emerging, potential market volumes are enormous and in many cases growing rapidly. And yet, there are legacy technologies that will decline in this period as they become constrained by older standards that are less adaptable in the new marketplace.

The Thintri market study, "Market Opportunities in Short Range Wireless," makes use of extensive, in-depth interviews with industry executives, market development managers and government and academic researchers. The report highlights the available and emerging short range wireless technologies and analyzes their market growth, with forecasts to 2023.

For more information on the report, visit: http://www.thintri.com/Short-range-wireless-report.htm.

About Thintri, Inc.:

Founded in 1996, Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com), is a full-service consulting firm, based in New York and directed by J. Scott Moore, Ph.D.

Thintri's services include business intelligence, market research, technology transfer and technology assessment, and in-depth, off-the-shelf market studies on promising emerging technologies. Topics of focus have included communications, aerospace, medical and industrial imaging, materials and coatings, semiconductor devices, photonics, plastic electronics, manufacturing, industrial logistics, security and defense, thermal management, energy, and a host of others.

For more information, visit http://www.thintri.com or call 914-242-4615.

Media Contact:
J. Scott Moore
+1-914-242-4615
smoore@thintri.com

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