The chipmaker has announced that it would be altering its reporting structure for a better reflection of the tech.

Intel Corp., the chipmaker giant, has now announced that it is changing the structure of its financial reporting so that it will provide a more accurate reflection of two primary areas, which are mobile gadgets and the growing field of interconnected electronic devices.

Starting with the company’s first quarter report, which was released April 15, a new revenues group was created.

Within that report, it provided Internet of Things Group category revenues. This was recently created and concentrates on the growing trend of linking everything from the ventilation systems in high rises to an individual’s bathroom scale. This focus on mobile gadgets and devices will be found within the brand new segment: Mobile and Communications.

The revenue from mobile gadgets such as chips for phones and tablets used to be under Other Intel Architecture.

Furthermore, the results from the company’s set-top box and gateway business will now be worked into the PC Client Group, instead of having also been tucked into the Other Intel Architecture category, said the chipmaker. When it comes to the segment called Data Center, it will now be including the results from the communications infrastructure, which had, like the others, previously been shuffled into the Other Intel Architecture category.

The Internet of Things Group is not actually something that just came to be. In fact, it was created in 2013 as a combination of the business from Intel that was focused on chips for industrial and commercial devices with Wind River. That subsidiary sells industrial and commercial device software.

The largest segment of the revenue at Intel is found within the PC Client Group. It will now also include the results that are brought in from the set top box and the gateway business.

The release of the first quarter report includes the retrospective results for each of the updated business segments from mobile gadgets to commercial and industrial devices, and everything in between. This is a notable shift in the way that the company has identified its priorities and has clearly shown the direction that it feels the electronics industry is taking.

This year is helping to prove that smartphone shopping is growing quickly, but is still a fraction of the whole.

A new industry forecast has been released by eMarketer with regards to retail mobile commerce and its predictions that this channel for shopping will grow in size by 37.2 percent, to reach $57.8 billion, when compared to having been $42.1 billion last year.

The projections also showed that they expect mcommerce to reach $132.7 billion by the close of 2018.

In 2014, mobile commerce in the United States will make up about one fifth of all retail online shopping in the country. However, at the same time it will make up only 1.2 percent of the total retail sales. Therefore, while the report from eMarketer does show that while this channel is having a growing impact on the sales that are occurring on the internet, when it comes to the actual sales made as a whole, it still represents only a tiny sliver.

Included in this mobile commerce estimate are products and services ordered online on a smartphone or tablet.

That said, it does not include the purchase of travel reservations or event tickets in these statistics. In 2014, the report predicts that tablet commerce will make up nearly two out of every three mobile based sales. This is also expected to rise to account for 75 percent of the sales over these devices by 2018. This aligns with the predictions that have been made by previous studies from a range of different sources, which indicated that tablets are the preferred shopping device of mobile consumers when it comes to actually making a purchase.

The mobile commerce research has predicted that sales online (over mobile or PC) will increase by 15.5 percent, this year, to bring them to $304.1 billion. This is an increase over last year’s $263.3 billion. Growth in sales online will make up more than 20 percent of the total retail sales increases in 2014, said the repot. However, at the same time, it also indicated that it will make up only 5.8 percent of the American retail sales total of $4.7 trillion for this year. That figure should grow by nearly 9 percent by 2018.