Capacitive touchscreens and components

Manufacturers

I   Analysis oｆ Capacitive Touchscreens and Components Market

• There is a sign of recovery in outcells due to installation of Flexible OLED in Apple products and expansion of 2in1 PC market
• Should acquire business opportunities in the changes of structures and materials of sensors
• The market of film sensors for smartphones in 2017 is likely to re-attain double-digit growth
• Adoption of Flexible OLED Expanding for smartphones
• Demands of GF2 (ITO Bridge) for Bended smartphones expanding
• Suggestion of GF2 (DITO) is also accelerated for smartphones installed with Flexible OLED screens
• Application other than incell an oncell of smartphones have been accelerated
• Oncell-type Y-OCTA of Flexible OLED has been fully launched
• Together with iPhones which have flexible OLED installed, Galaxy S8 Edge has adopted full-screen designs
• Force Touch has been attracting attention in association with display being full-screen designs
• Development of foldable/rollable terminals in parallel with software development as become important theme

II   Current Status and Future Outlook of Capacitive Touchscreen Components Market

1. Transparent Conductive Film Market

• Price decrease of ITO films seems to be bottomed out
• Non ITO films have been stable because those films for 2in1 PCs are required to be low-resistance

1. ITO films
2. Non-ITO films

2. Cover Market
3. OCA Market (rigid, liquid adhesive)
4. ead Wire/Materials Market

1. Metal-base sputtering target
2. Conductive paste

III   Trends in Manufacturers of Capacitive Touchscreens and their Components

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