China’s touchscreen makers are expanding capacity amid broadening application in mobilephones,portable media players, camcorders, and tablet and other computers. They are focusing on capacitive types, driven by the popularity of the iPhone and iPad. Resistive variants, however, will continue to be offerred as a low cost option.
Spurring demand are smartphones and tablet conputers. Sales of the first will hit 400 million units by 2012, consistuting 82persent if the segment’s total. Tablet PC orders, on the other hand, will surge 181 percent to 54.8 million this year from 2010. The touchscreen module revenue, meanwhile, will grow to nearly 14$ billion by 2016 from 4.3$ billion in 2009 with a CAGR of 18%, estimates Display search.