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Research and Markets: Global and Chinese Display Driver and Touch IC Industry Report, 2013-2014DUBLIN --(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7jx63f/global_and) has announced the addition of the "Global and Chinese Display Driver and Touch IC Industry Report, 2013-2014" report to their offering. In 2013, global display driver IC market size skyrocketed by 10.7% to USD 6.882 billion, and is expected to be worth USD 7.278 billion in 2014, with an increase of 5.6%. The rise in the display driver IC market scale can be attributed to the factors below:
The most noteworthy in Driver IC industry in 2014 is the sale of Display Driver IC unit by Renesas. Since its inceptin, Renesas has operated in the red. In order to dig its way out of losses, the company sold some non-core assets, while its medium and small-sized Display Driver IC unit is fairly profitable. Renesas is a principal supplier of driver IC for Apple (News - Alert) phones, but its main business comes to MCU. Broadcom, Synaptics and Novatek will be the most likely buyers. Especially, Synaptics, a leading company in touch IC market, would become a dual leader in medium and small-sized Display Driver IC and Touch IC markets, if its bid for Renesas succeeded. For its future trend, the touch IC of mobile phone is to be integrated mainly driven by cost and technology. Technically, it can be integrated with either Driver IC or AP, with the former being expected to be the mainstream. In addition to cost cuts, On-cell/In-cell technology is more suitable for integrating Driver IC and Touch IC. As parts of LCD display module, Driver IC and Touch IC can be completely independent of AP. It is expected that TDDI (Touch Display Driver IC) will start to be shipped progressively from the second half of 2014. Another trend in Touch IC field is In-cell and On-cell. In the past, On-cell was mainly expensive and noble AMOLED panel. However, from the year 2014, we will see a-Si LCD mobile phone panel equipped with On-cell Touch to be shipped from Taiwanese and Chinese companies, including AUO, Innolux, CPT, Hannstar, BOE and Tianma, etc. It is expected that 5%-10% of China's mobile phone industry will be provided with On-cell Touch LCD. Several IC tycoons are producing On-cell Touch IC, among which Synaptics (News - Alert) releases its production at the fastest pace, followed by FocalTech. Key Topics Covered: 1. Profile of Driver IC 2. Display Downstream Market 3. Touch and Driver IC Industry 4. Major Driver IC Vendors 5. Major Touch IC Design Houses 6. Major Players in Driver IC Industry Chain
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