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Market Overview

The Growing Market for High-Resolution Display Solutions

Among the many different display technologies, liquid crystal displays are rapidly gaining widespread acceptance. In particular, the TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display), which boasts a variety of superior features. They are being applied to diversified fields, including Laptop Computer Displays. A TFT-LCD is a high-quality flat panel display incorporating a transistor that individually switches each picture element.

Market Projections

The flat panel industry has grown from $3.75 billion in 1990 to over $19.2 billion in 1999. The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.9% will be exceeded in the next five years and the revenue is expected to reach $72 B in 2005. This growth has been fueled by passive matrix LCDs in the early part of the decade and has been driven by active matrix LCDs, also called thin film transistor (TFT), in the last five years. The thin, lightweight, low power flat panels have enabled the development of a number of new products, including notebook computers, desktop monitor replacements personal digital assistants (PDA), mobile phones, mobile games, automobile navigation devices, digital cameras and handheld TVs. In the next few years, other products are expected to thrive including head-mounted displays, hang-on-the-wall TVs, wristwatch telephones, Internet appliances, digital picture albums and a host of others.

Flat panels have also caused the creation of an electronic sub-market consisting of semiconductor based graphic accelerators, driver ICs, scaling engines, differential signaling ICs and backlights. The size and scope of these sub-markets tend to parallel the flat panel industry and take advantage of improvements in semiconductor and optics technology. (Display Search Sept. 2000)

Future Outlook

DisplaySearch expects the TFT LCD market to grow at a 24.8% CAGR from 1999 to 2005 to reach $52.1 billion due to:

  • Significant spending on capacity expansions;
  • Continued acceptance and growth in the LCD monitor and notebook PC markets;
  • Increased penetration in other existing markets such as cellular phones, PDAs, TVs, industrial applications, etc.
  • Significant penetration into future markets enabled by future lower prices such as internet appliances, eBooks, digital albums, etc. The need to be connected to the internet anywhere and at all times will result in numerous new applications which will benefit from capabilities of TFT LCDs;
  • Potentially strong demand for higher resolution displays which could result in users upgrading their notebook PCs, cell phones, LCD monitors, etc. not because of improvements in processing power or bandwidth, but because of the increased number of pixels.

New TI Business Unit Targets High-Resolution Display Market

TI's new Display Solutions Business Unit has been created to serve the growing market for high-resolution displays. The company is already the world leader for supplying LCD drivers and other display components. In addition, TI's FlatLink™ product family supplies solutions for the low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) video interfaces that serve as a de facto standard for notebook PCs today.

In addition, TI is the industry's leading producer of digital light processors (DLPs), the mirrored integrated circuits that are finding increasing use in the projection of high-definition visual images. TI's Display Systems business works closely with the DLP business to provide TI customers with solutions that marry leading digital video transmission technology with innovative DLP display technology.

TI is also leveraging its leading DSP and analog technologies to enable increased functionality and to enhance image quality.