Mobile display shipments will reach 1.6 billion units by 2007, says report
Semiconductor Business News
(07/03/01 12:57 p.m. EST)
SAN JOSE -- The market for display components used in mobile systems will surge to $26.4 billion in 2007 from $14.4 billion in 2001, according to a new report from Stanford Resources Inc. here. A total of 1.6 billion mobile display systems will be shipped in 2007 with at a value of $316 billion, said the San Jose research firm in releasing the new report today.
"Mobile systems use a variety of displays, from small passive matrix monochrome displays for handheld games to large active matrix color panels for portable computers," noted Sanju Khatri, senior analyst at Stanford Resources. The new report estimates that liquid crystal display (LCD) technology will continue to dominate mobile systems applications, but organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays will gain share from just 0.3% in 2001 to 8.3% in 2007.
LCD shipments are expected to grow at 8% per year until 2007 while the OLED displays will increase at 88% in the next six years, the report said.
Worldwide portable computer shipments will approach 27 million units in 2001 and grow to nearly 57 million systems in 2007, said Stanford Resources. Nearly all portable computers will use LCDs in the period covered by the report. OLED technology is not expected to be used in portable computers for several years, but a small number of OLED displays will appear in "ultraportable" computers beginning in 2005, according to the report.
Stanford Resources also predicted that global cellular phone shipments will grow from 462 million units in 2001 to 906 million handsets in 2007. In cell phones, the share of monochrome displays will stand at 90% in 2001 but drop to 39% by 2007, the report said |
