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TMCNet: Touch Screen Technology Market to hit $490 million By 2014 Says New Report

[January 22, 2010]

Touch Screen Technology Market to hit $490 million By 2014 Says New Report

(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report.

The report "Touch Screens: Technologies, Materials and Markets 2010 to 2016" available at http://www.reportbuyer.com/go/NAN00090 analyses the leading touch-screen technologies and shows how well each of them meets current and future market needs for the various applications. It also analyses the strategies of the most innovative touch-screen suppliers and technology developers and discusses how touch-screen technology and products will change in the future. The report also provides eight-year quantitative and qualitative forecast for shipments of touch-screen products of all kinds.

Touch screens were first used in computer-assisted learning systems in the 1970s and then went on to find applications in kiosks, point-of-sales systems, ATMs and more. Today they are also been used in PDAs, smart phones, game consoles, GPS systems, and industrial information and control devices of various kinds. More than 100 cell phone models now employ touch-screen technology and home appliances are also expected to utilise touch screens in the near future. In addition, somewhere along the way the functionality of touch screens has expanded; most notably with multi-touch capability.

By 2014, the NanoMarkets report projects that revenues from in-pixel technologies are expected to reach almost $500 million in revenues. The report also identifies an interesting and possibly disruptive trend is taking hold in the touch display market. Mainstream display makers have begun to develop their own "in-pixel" technologies as an alternative to the current industry practice in which third-party suppliers add a touch sensor subsystem on top of an LCD display and then sell to OEMs. The net effect is that mid-size touch screen manufacturers instead of supplying companies such as LG, Samsung and Sony may wind up competing against them.

The report says that the fastest growing touch screen technologies will be traditional infrared and optical technology, both of which are based on infrared sensors and LEDs. These technologies are used in digital signage and computer monitors, which are rapidly expanding addressable markets for touch technology. By 2014, the market for traditional IR and optical touch technologies will be approximately $490 million in revenues.

The report "Touch Screens: Technologies, Materials and Markets 2010 to 2016" is available from Report Buyer at: http://www.reportbuyer.com/computing_electronics/electrical_components/touch_screens_technologies_materials_markets.html Report Buyer product ID: NAN00090 About Report Buyer.

Report Buyer http://www.reportbuyer.com/computing_electronics/electrical_components/index.html is the independent online store for global business information. The website now lists more than 106,000 company overviews, market research reports, industry studies and business books from over 300 specialist publishers. Thousands of professionals from across the world make ReportBuyer.com their first choice in their search for quality business insight.

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