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Apple Set to Dominate Tablet Market Through 2012

Even with a flood of rival products, Apple Inc.’s iPad is unlikely to face a viable competitor until 2011, allowing the company to maintain a dominant share in the tablet market at least through 2012, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.

The iPad will account for an overwhelming 74.1 % of global tablet shipments in 2010, with the remaining 25.9 % consisting of a mix of older PC-type tablet products & competitive slates. Despite the arrival of the first real iPad competitors in 2011, Apple still will maintain a prevailing 70.4 % share of shipments, iPad research from iSuppli bears out. Even in 2012, the iPad will continue to control nearly two-thirds of shipments, at 61.7 %, as the competition strives to develop ecosystems of tablet apps and content that can match up with those of Apple.

“Although the iPad has been on the market for only a few months, powerful interests throughout the technology business are devoting enormous resources to challenge and topple Apple’s domination in this fast-growing marketplace,” commented Rhoda Alexander, Director, Monitor Research at iSuppli. “However, if recent history is any lesson, it will take some time for these companies to get their products to market, longer for them to offer necessary software support and infrastructure, and an even lengthier period to begin to rival the overall user experience Apple is able to deliver.”

The iPad is in a similar situation as the iPhone when it first arrived. Launched in June 2007, the iPhone teardown was followed by a range of competing products during the next five months to two years, such as the Samsung F700, the UTStarcom XV6800, the Google G1 and the Palm Pre. However, it took almost three years for the competition to offer phones that were not just in the ballpark of being comparable to the iPhone, but also were truly differentiated and superior in some respects, iSuppli’s mobile market research indicates.

There are presently numerous products identified by iSuppli as iPad competitors, such as Android- and Windows 7-based tablets from Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc. and Lenovo. However, none of these is a serious competitor to the iPad from a solution perspective, iSuppli believes.

“Companies are quickly developing products that match or exceed some of the surface hardware specifications of the Apple iPad,” Alexander opined. “But it’s still unlikely that any of the competitors will be able to equal the overall performance experience of the iPad.

A number of new tablet devices are expected, in addition to the ones in the market today.

This is probably the best example to date of a competitor trying to link the smart phone/tablet experience similar to what Apple has done with its iPhone/iPad.

Rumors are also prevalent regarding Research in Motion Ltd. after its recent purchase of the BlackPad domain name. Alexander believes that the most interesting near-term iPad competition is likely to come from HP, which has the requisite experience in building PC-level devices, as well as access to a proprietary WebOS through the company’s Palm acquisition. Nonetheless, HP’s iPad challenger is unlikely to appear before 2011 and probably will include multiple products-including a tablet with significant creation capabilities targeted at the enterprise market, in addition to one or more consumption-style devices targeted at consumers.

Even with their hardware ducks in a row, the iPad competitors will encounter other problems in competing with Apple.

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Touch-Screen Tablet PC This Year Will Reach 60 Million Shipments

According to Display Search “2011 touch screen in the first quarter of the latest market analysis” report (Q1’11 Touch Panel Market Analysis Update), 2011 required the touch screen flat panel computer shipments are expected to reach 60 million. Apple is likely in 2011 and 2012 continue to be the largest flat-panel touch screen consumer business, while other brands will catch up in 2012. Display Search estimates required for 2016 touch-screen tablet PC shipments will reach 260 million, an increase over 333% in 2011.

Vice President Emerging Display Technology Display Search said Dr. Jennifer Colegrove, a touch screen Tablet PC applications in the fastest growing product type, most of the Tablet PC to emulate Apple’s use of projected capacitive multi-touch technology; a small part of the Tablet PC using resistance touch technology, because the technology has handwriting recognition and cheaper; There is also a part of the Tablet PC digital board to have handwriting recognition and drawing functions.

Regions because of the touch screen technology and supply chain needs of local customers vary. In China Taiwan, touch screen touch screen suppliers to expand production capacity in a more holistic value chain when they want to touch screen tablet PC and mobile phone applications can be as successful. In North America, Atmel, Synopsys released the application of international and IDT to the projected capacitive touch screen of the new controller IC products. In Japan, the yen weak, suppliers strive to put into production, plant type (Gunze) and Suzutora ITO film and other companies are expanding production capacity.

Currently, there are 10 kinds of different structure are applied to meet the projected capacitive touch screen. Application depends on the structure of IP suppliers and production processes of different capacity. Further pointed out that Dr. Colegrove, who can to optimize the structure, at least in the materials and processes to produce the most compact high-performance products, will come to the touch panel market is expected to become the most successful suppliers.

“The first quarter of 2011, the latest touch-screen market analysis” of the other elements include:

AU Optronics will be on-cell touch-panel display applications to small and medium size, good rate of success will be increased to 80%. AUO and began shipping to digital cameras, portable auto navigation system (PND) and mobile phones and other customers.

HP introduced the first touch one model, the computer monitor can be adjusted 60 degree angle pitch to meet the requirements of the user comfort. Apple in 2010, also applied for similar patents. This user-friendly solutions in the future will greatly promote the touch-screen machines in one application.

2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, Sharp, Motorola, Lenovo, RIM, Dell, Freescale, Microsoft Kinect, PrimeSens, e OpenNI, Multi Touch Ltd, 3M, Touch Revolution, IDT, Stantum, LG Display, Wacom , Keytec and Samsung have the touch or touch screen display functionality.

Mobile phones and tablet PCs in touch solution, plays a decisive role in the control chip.

Market Analysis

Intel Aims to Enter Tablet Market With Oak Trail Processor

According to the market research firm iSuppli Corp., seeking to capitalize on the fast growth of the tablet market relative to its core PC business, Intel Corp. has come off the sidelines with a microprocessor designed specifically for iPad-type devices, dubbed the Oak Trail.

While growth will be modest during the years to come for PCs—Intel’s traditional bedrock for revenue—expansion is unstoppable in the sizzling tablet market, led by Apple Inc.’s bestselling iPad, iSuppli findings show.

A comparison between the relatively limited growth vista for PCs versus the panoramic expansion landscape for tablet devices shows why Intel is serious about getting into the tablet game.

Global PC shipments in 2011 are forecasted to rise by 12.5 percent from 2010 and by 11.3 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. Tablets, in comparison, will surge by a mighty 197.7 percent in 2011 and by 57.4 percent in 2012.

Oak Trail: Intel’s pathway through the thicket

In a market dominated by Apple and its ARM-based A4 microprocessor, Intel’s foray into tablet devices represents a realization by the chip titan that it needs to enter this space in order to remain competitive. Already, the tablet market is expected to heat up, with big names like Samsung Electronics, Toshiba Corp. and Dell Inc. announcing tablet devices of their own to go head to head with the iPad. With Oak Trail, Intel hopes to make some much-needed headway into the tablet market, even though the microprocessor is not scheduled to begin shipping until early 2011.

First announced by Intel in June this year—two months after Apple launched the iPad—Oak Trail is a System On a Chip (SOC) solution designed exclusively for tablets. Based on published reports, Oak Trail will consume as much as 50 percent less power than previous processors from the company and also will offer full high-definition video.

More important, Oak Trail will work on three operating system platforms—Android from Google, Windows 7 from Microsoft and MeeGo from Nokia—potentially expanding the universe of tablet devices in which the Intel processor might be used.

Matthew Wilkins, Principal Analyst (Compute Platforms) at iSuppli, believes Oak Trail’s compatibility with the various operating systems stemmed out of Intel’s frustration at seeing the iPad selling millions of units—figures that any company, Intel included, would have welcomed gladly.

“Intel is smart,” Wilkins said. “The company knows perfectly well that the media tablet market is being defined right now. And if the company doesn’t become a player immediately, its prospects of getting into the market in the future will only grow dimmer.”

For now, without Intel’s presence in the sector, each sale of a tablet device means a blow to the Intel processor in terms of evaporated revenue. It also could represent a missed sale in a PC that likely included an Intel-based processor.Intel’s Atom processor revenues were down 4 percent sequentially in the third-quarter, which many construe as a sign of cannibalization by tablets.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Deals- The Latest Tablet Deals in The Market

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